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Monday, November 17, 2008

Night # 2 in the toddler bed went great! Scout slept all the way through the night. It was a bit of a challenge actually getting her to go to sleep, but once she was out, she was out. I moved her mattress out of the bedroom yesterday and that made room for her big toy bench and some other stuff, so instead of sitting in the floor to nurse her, I sat on the toy bench. It was much more comfortable than having to heave myself with babe in arms off the floor when it was time to lay her in the bed. She did wake up as soon as I put her in bed, despite my efforts to keep her latched on and nursing. Phooey. She squirmed and talked and tried to get off the bed, but I just kept talking softly to her and rubbing her back. She finally succumbed to the soft, circular sweeps across her back and legs and conked out. The whole process probably took me twice as long as putting her to bed on her old mattress....and there was a point last night when I was frustrated and wondering WHY I ever decided to introduce this change in the first place....but I think it'll be good in the long run. She's getting all relaxed and ready for bed with the nursing session, yet she's actually falling asleep just by the touch of my hand. It's definitely new frontier for us. I've been nursing her to sleep while laying next to her for so long, but I feel like she's ready and I'm ready for this little change.

What else is going on today? We're going to our preschool co-op this morning and I am the "snack parent". I'm bringing gluten free graham crackers (no one in our group has a wheat allergy that I know of, but someone gave us 3 boxes of the crackers and I figured I'd make good use of them) , sliced cheddar cheese, and grapes. I cut the grapes into quarters because I wasn't sure how all the other toddlers eat them. I usually half or quarter grapes for Scout, but I know of one 1.5-year-old in the group whose parents allow him to eat whole grapes (like, shoving 3 whole grapes in his mouth at once) and he seems to do fine. I hope the other parents in the group don't think I'm a paranoid freak for cutting the grapes so tiny. I just don't want anyone to get choked...especially while I'm the "snack parent":)

Wow. What an exciting life I lead. All I have to write about is my daughter's bed and how small I cut grapes.

Labels: baby sleep, food, school

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 7:11 AM,

4 Comments:

At Mon Nov 17, 11:09:00 AM CST, Giggly said...: Yep, we cut our grapes in quarters too. It's a funny process.

I remember switching my Molly too the big girl bed and doing the rubbing and patting on the back in circular motion. Brings back memories. I would also try to make a shhhh... shhhh.. noise to try to emulate white noise. Oh the things we parents do....
At Mon Nov 17, 11:39:00 AM CST, mumamarie said...: hehehe, you are funny. i guess that's why i don't blog much--cuz it'd be all "cuttin grapes" talk. :)

glad she slept so well in her bed! that's exciting. i still have to get kaylo in his own...
At Mon Nov 17, 02:16:00 PM CST, heidi said...: LOL on the exciting blog post. lack of "proper" blog fodder often keeps me from blogging as often as i'd like to. honestly, i love these regular sort of blog topics. it's so neat to see how other moms do things. i'm not ready for a big boy bed for tristan yet, i'm too afraid of him getting out of bed thirteen million times a night and falling down the stairs or something horrendous like that!
At Mon Nov 17, 03:43:00 PM CST, Unkempt Mommy said...: Thanks, mommies. It's good to know I'm not the only one who feels like she leads a pretty boring day-to-day life. I wish we all lived closer - we could all be boring mommies together!

We put a gate across Scout's bedroom doorway at night so she doesn't escape when she gets up during the night. She usually just opens her door and stands at the gate whining, "Mommy!" when she needs me. I hope she never learns to climb the gate because I'm not sure what I'd do then!