Update on the sleeping

It has been nearly two months since we took off the side of Carolyn's crib. Generally, she sleeps well through the night and stays in bed "until the sun wakes up." But it is still not perfect.



Now, when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she has learned to be stealth. She quietly gathers her blankie and favorite stuffed animal and then slithers down the stairs and into our bed. I think that she has learned if she makes noise, we intercept her quickly and make her go back to her bed. When we do find her at the top of the stairs, she lets out a little cry and an "ah, man!" because she knows she got caught. Or, if we see her coming out into the hallway from her room, she will run back to her bed as fast as she can hoping that we did not really see her. And, on those successful nights when she makes it all the way downstairs and wakes up in the morning in our bed, she is proud of her accomplishment and says, "I happy. I sleep in Mama's bed!" During the last round of ear infections, she showed up a few times, but other than that, it is very occassional. Probably only once every two weeks.