My friend, Michelle, told me that raising children is just a series of mind games. I think she is right. Just when you think you have it all figured out, they throw you for a loop and you get duped. For example, Jack has been sleeping all night for a while. No problems. We put him to sleep awake, and he soothes himself to sleep. He sleeps solidly until 6am or so. Well, these last two nights, he has decided that he wants to wake up around 1030pm and 2 am for no reason. Just starts crying...we go up there and give him his pacifier and after about 15 minutes of patting his head and turning on his sleep sheep (white noise machine that looks like a sheep), he goes back to sleep. Of course, it takes me at least another hour to get to sleep after this happens. Mind games. Now I am spending most of the day trying to figure out what has been different these last two days that would make him do that.
Claire (the one who used to wake up at 4 or 5am when Jack was sleeping solidly) is now sleeping through the night until 615. Go figure. By the time we get Jack back to sleeping I am sure she will go back to waking up at the crack of dawn. I guess that is just the way it goes. Mind games.
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