Sleeping Stuff

Abby has continued to do great while sleeping in her mattress on the floor. So, yesterday, we decided it was time to complete her transition to her big girl bed. We converted the crib to a toddler bed. She was SOOOOO happy. She climbed right up there, and had a party. Of course, we're going to be keeping some couch cushions on the floor by her bed for a while (but, she's already pretty good at getting on and off the bed safely).

A cute story for you.....when Abby got up this morning, I went in there and we played on her bed for a bit (me sitting on the floor, her on the bed). I laid my head down on her bed and told her I was going "night night." She said "no, no" (she was ready to get up and eat). I told her I was going "night night" again, and she said "night night." She then grabbed her blanket and put it on my head. She also grabbed Teddy and gave him to me (this is what we do with her each night). It was really cute.

In other news, we're trying to figure out why Abby hasn't been sleeping much lately. About a month ago, she was sleeping a solid 11 hours at night, at least a one hour nap in the morning, and a two hour nap in the afternoon (so probably around 13 to 14 hours a day).

Well, for about the last two or three weeks, she's been sleeping for about 9 hours at night (at most), and a total of about 1.5 hours of nap during the day (again, at most). So, she's dropped by at least 3 to 4 hours of sleeping per day. And it seemed to happen almost overnight.

If you've been following me on facebook, you'll know that Abby has been getting up around 4:30AM every morning. This morning, she "slept in" until 4:40.....hooray for me! Haha.

So, we're trying to figure out what's up with her sleeping schedule lately. It's rough on us, but me in particular because I get up with Abby five days a week.

And before you say that we should just keep her up later at night, we already do. For the past couple of weeks, she's been going to bed around 7:00. This seems pretty early, but it's definitely the latest she's ever stayed up for her average bedtime. Yet, she's now waking up earlier than ever before. If we try to keep her up any later, she gets incredibly crabby, and falls a lot because she's so tired.

I'm thinking we just need to get rid of the morning nap (yesterday, her morning nap was only 20 minutes). She doesn't take a morning nap at school. But, when she gets up at 4:30, it's hard to keep her up until noon.

So, we'll see what happens.