A Little Advice

snuggling up to daddy's freshly shaven face (also totally irrelevant to this post)


To those of you who have one child, with the second on the way, or two children with the third on the way, or whatever the case may be--this is for you.



I would HIGHLY suggest getting another bedroom in your home. Somehow.



When we first moved here Brynlee was only 2 months old. I looked at this cute house that had 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom and thought, this will work just great! We don't need anything more, we'll just make it work. The next 9 months were spent with one of the children in our room. Mostly Bryn. But when it was HIGH time she go to sleep on her own, (and that we get our own room back to ourselves) we put Tyler in our room so she could just cry it out. And she did. She figured it out pretty quickly. So finally around the time she turned 11 months old, we had both of the kids in the same room, going to bed at the same time and sleeping ALL night long. There is beauty all around... when your kids sleep at night. Seriously--it was heavenly.



I should have known it was too good to be true. After all, this is Brynlee we're talking about. (It's always something, remember?)



It lasted about a week and a half, maybe 2 weeks. For some reason, Bryn is back to waking up multiple times a night. She's not very quiet, for those of you that don't know her. So obviously she wakes up Tyler every single time. In fact, the doors of our rooms form an angle like an "L" so they are RIGHT next to each other, so we all wake up. And it's hard to know what to do each time. I have no problems with letting her cry it out, except if that means that none of us sleep in the mean time--you never know how stubborn she's going to be.

Also, their naps are interesting also. Tyler will often wake Brynlee up because he wants to play with her and thinks it's funny. To me? Not so funny. And unless he's in a deep sleep, she will wake him up too by jumping in her crib and talking.

I am not trying to just complain to everyone because I know that we are blessed to have what we do have. A lot of people have a lot more kids, in a lot less space. I just wonder if they were all as frustrated and sleep-deprived as I am. SO. My advice to you would be, give the youngest child their own room so that the rest of your family can sleep. Unless you don't believe in that, then good luck figuring out another way, and please let me know what you're doing :).