It Comes Full Circle

You can call it karma or just desserts or any other cliche that will make me roll my eyes (doesn't make it any less true though), but that is what is happening to me... and John. Although both of us are involved, I will take the blame for saying things that made people respond with "knock on wood" will also makes me roll my eyes.

My daughter, Emily, slept through the night early on and I remember only waking up once a night and loving it. I would tell people how she did this when the topic came up about letting a baby cry it out and just blame it on the fact that sleeping a lot was hereditary passed down from her sleep-loving parents. Apparently this 'comedic' excuse was not enough to stop things from coming back around to me.

Emily turned 2 in September... I made a comment to a friend at school that toddlers (for the most part) sleep through the night. Boy was I wrong... at least about Emily.

Last night was a prime example. John and I were woken up 5 times by her screaming from her room for something. The first time was for Popples. When I say this is the most important thing in the world to my daughter, I feel like it is an understatement. Popples had fallen off the bed and my little's world had fallen apart in the middle of the night. I was okay to help out with this problem.

Time number 2 she screamed because she had lost her juice.... it was right beside her but since she doesn't have night vision... or the ability to search for things with her arms... Any way. By this time, I was starting to get upset. It is only 12:30...

Next time she is screaming hungry!! I wanted to scream back, starve!! Is that nice and appropriate and the right way to respond to my toddler? No. Does that make it any less true? Absolutely not.

The next few time ran together... mainly because they happened so closely together! But they were for Popples. Tonight I will try the 'let her cry it out' thing I suppose. I know that she screams for us because we will come and I am pretty sure that was the point I missed when all my friends were going through this with their newborns. A lack of sleep when I don't have a newborn or a sick child (anymore woohoo!!) make my patience terribly short and the house tense. This isn't good!! So all of y'all our there who told me to knock on wood and I refused can now be happy you were right... woohoo...