The fears continue. It’s back to the drawing board. In the past every sleeping success I’ve had with P has been through transitions. I baby step to get to the desired behavior and I feel I’m starting from scratch again. I’m frustrated.
We went from falling asleep in 10 minutes, without my presence to needing me every 2 minutes and taking close to an hour to finally fall asleep. She was sleeping till 4:30-5am in her own bed and then joining us, often on her own. Now it’s waking up at 12 or 2am and needing to be carried into our bed. There was no bed wetting. Now, we’re back to having accidents. It’s very frustrating and worrisome. Is this fear normal or has something happened that I don’t know about? I’m searching for clues.
In the mean time P continues to say and do things that crack me up. The other day, around 10am, not even close to nap time, she was laying in her bed. Just laying there doing nothing. I asked if something was wrong and she said “I’m just laying because my bones have gone away. I have no bones.” I said “Yes you do!” and I squeezed her legs and arms, “See, I can feel them.” P says: “oh yes! There they are! I have bones again!” Where do these thoughts and ideas come from? Crazy.
As I’ve mentioned she is more involved in the kitchen with me. I love that she is loving the kitchen and cooking. There is a permanent stool in the kitchen just for P. It’s a blessing and curse all in one. Yesterday I found her with a bowl and a container of lentils. She was scooping lentils out because she was making “bean smash”. Bean smash, bean smash! She kept repeating this as she went on her way. She grabbed a measuring cup, went over to the sink poured a cup of water, then sprinkled salt and pepper into it and stirred. Then she asked for a pan. She poured the lentils into the pan and put it in the fridge where “it needed to stay for an hour for bean smash to be good.”
Of course now that I’m sitting here writing I’m forgetting all her little sayings. They are making this age so special to me. I want to remember them. For example, she’ll end a sentence with “that’s the rules” and that’s suppose to make it ok for her to do what she just said she was going to do. A good example is “I’m going to brush my teeth and then I’m going to watch a show because that’s the rules!” A bad example is “I’m going to eat the cake and then the broccoli because that’s the rules!”
There are more but of course at 10:30pm I can’t remember much.
