It's Night One of the new bedtime routine. Here's how things went down via my view on the baby monitor:
6:00 -6:30 pm
Finish up dinner
6:30 - 7:00 pm
Kids watched Barney video
7:00 - 7:15 pm
Baths
7:15 - 7:30 pm
PJs and bedtime books in their room
7:30 pm
Tucked kids in and said good night
7:35 pm
Chris started crying that he wanted his baby
7:40 pm
Chris took off his PJ bottoms
7:41 pm
Chris put the PJ bottoms on head
7:41 pm
Kendall is standing on her head in her bed
7:45 pm
I went in and tucked them both back in again. No words, just said "Good night" again.
7:55 pm
The kids are having a conversation about something
7:56 pm
Chris comes to the door and announces he has "poo poo"
7:57 pm
Sent Chris downstairs to Daddy to get his Pull Up changed (he really did have poo poo)
8:00 pm
Put both kids back in bed, tucked them in and said, "Good night" (again).
8:01 pm
Chris is standing at the door crying that his blanket fell off. "Moooooomy. Ut ohhhhhh".
8:03 pm
Kendall is crawling around on the floor beside her bed. Nope wait, she just got back in bed.
8:05 pm
Chris is still standing at the door saying, "Mommy. Ut ohhhhhhh. My binket"
8:06 pm
I walk him back to bed, place the blanket on him and walk out without saying anything.
8:14 pm
It's quiet but I still see a little movement
8:23 pm
It's still quiet and the kids are both still. Oops, nope. Wait. Chris just sat up in bed. What the heck is he doing? He's staring at the wall. Now, he's hugging his bear. And, down he goes. Laying back down again.
8:32 pm
Still quiet and it looks like Kendall is asleep and Chris is close.
One hour from start to finish. Success?!
We'll give it a whirl tomorrow night and see if we can improve our time!
2 comments:
LOL! I love it! I can see it all playing out too! LOL! Oh my! Good Luck with night #2!
Sounds like success to me! We have had the same bed time routine that is similar to your current one. Bath everyother night, jamas, books and songs and night night. I was doing the final night night every single night for the first year and a half but several months before the new baby came we shifted to share everyother night. It has taken a while but we are back to putting her down (2.5 yrs) and not a peep most nights. Ocassionally we will have a few minutes of crying or "poopy" but usually not. We don't have a video monitor so not sure what realy happens after we shut the door but it is quiet!
Stick with it and it will get better!
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