200

Thought I would make a point of saying that this is my 200th post. Sweet.

And I know you're sick of hearing about our sleeping issues over here, but you're about to hear more. Just know that if I found out you skipped reading all these boring posts, I would not be hurt.

Today I came up with the idea to move Cami's crib into the room that also has her toddler bed. It was a bit of a pain taking it apart just to move it to the next room and put it back together, but once the thought occured to me, I just had to try it. I moved her dresser, all her clothes in the closet, and even some of the pictures on the wall, just to make it feel more like Cami's room. I'm hoping this way she'll at least get used to being in *her* room, and maybe she'll be more ready to switch beds soon. Maybe it's a mistake, since eventually we will have to take the crib apart again to move it back into baby's room, but I guess we'll just find that out later now, won't we. At the end of the day, if baby boy had to spend a month or two in the pack and play, I'm sure we would survive.

As I was reassembling the crib, Blair had the bright idea of leaving the spring part off that supports the mattress and just setting the mattress on the floor inside the crib. The idea is to make it so that she can't climb out anymore. This makes it harder for me to lay her down myself, and instead I have to put her in standing up and let her lay down, but I do like knowing that at least she can't throw herself over the rails anymore. We'll see how that goes...

Anyway, I was hoping that things would go smoothly right away, but we did not have a naptime today. Unless you count the 20 minutes she spent sleeping on the couch when I stuck her in front of the TV so that I could lay down for a bit. Then when we put her to bed for bedtime, she was completely out of sorts. She hasn't had a hard time with bedtime for SOOOO long, and practically begs us most of the time to put her in bed around 7:30 or 8. It was 7:45, and we put her in, and she just flipped out. She continued to scream for a good 20 minutes before I went in to calm her down. 10 minutes of that, and I put her back down, and once again, she flipped out. It is now 8:30 and I haven't heard from her in 5 or 10 minutes, so it seems as we have a sleeper finally.

I just don't know what to do. And to be quite frank, I'm not ready for more ideas just yet...I'm already overwhelmed with all of my own "bright ideas" that I think I just need to stick with what we're doing now for a week or two before I can make any more attempts at change. My poor girl can only handle so much, I think. I just needed to get this down so that I can reference it later.

Of course, she could always be teething...