These were the bribe if Susie spent the whole night in her big girl bed. And technically, she did. She didn’t ask to go back to her crib once. Derek and I traded off sitting outside the kids’ room for three and a half hours while she settled in. I’d managed to get a matching sheet set for her bed from the people who sold us Lizzie’s, and she was very excited about “her sheets like Sister’s!” Susie was definitely the life of the party last night–jokes, dancing, shadow puppets on the wall by the light of the nightlight…at one point, I came in to find her dancing around with the ipod to Celine Dion. (I didn’t even know I had Celine Dion’s last French album on my ipod!) Discipline was completely ineffective in such a party atmosphere. Tommy fell asleep at 9 and Elizabeth at 10, but when we thought things had quieted down and had retreated to the living room, suddenly Susie appeared with her spray bottle and a wipe in hand (obtained by getting out of bed, going into her old room, climbing up on the changing table in the dark, and grabbing the necessary diaper change materials), asking for a fresh diaper. She finally gave up the fight around 11 pm.
And guess who was up first, in her sister’s bed at 7:30, trying to wake up a playmate? Yes, that would be our severely sleep deprived Q. Hopefully the morning chocolate will give her the energy she needs to push through until a (hopefully long) afternoon nap to recover some of those missing hours of sleep!
