I Take It Back

Parker has lost her big girl bed status, and we'll all so much better off! As I wrote before, she did great the first week. Then she figured out she could get out of bed and she started coming into our room earlier than we'd like, but still acceptable behavior. Then she had a cold and started getting up in the night and wandering around the house and coming into our room even earlier. One morning I woke up to her with two cookies in hand. Apparently she'd headed downstairs to check things out before coming in to see us this day. The final straw was that she didn't want to nap anymore, and not only got out of bed 32,000 times, she'd head into Payton's room and made sure that she couldn't sleep either. I dealt with this a few days and finally couldn't take it. After 2 hours of fighting her, begging her, and a few swats to the butt where she laughed at me I was done. I put her in her bed and made her sit there while I screwed the front panel back on. She pouted and pouted and when I was all done she said, "I want my PAYTON" with her cutest and biggest pout, bottom lip out and pathetic. BUT, as soon as I shut the door she slept like a baby. Ahhh, love the cage...I mean crib. We'll revisit when she's 12.