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I actually got to bed on time last night. Enough of this “I’ll just read one more blog entry” or “Wow, I’m really enjoying this TV show. I don’t want to go to bed yet”. Uh, that’s what you have Tivo for, isn’t it? Just get your Mommy Butt in bed already! So I did. And I feel better. Even though this was the goal for March, I have done abysmally at it. So I’m going to make this the goal for April as well. Because as tpareo so aptly put it in her comment on yesterday’s post “I’d say expect more, and that you can definitely feel better. For me, again, sleep is usually 90% of the problem, so you don’t even need any other excuses in my opinion to feel like crap if you’ve not had good sleep, esPEcially for the last 13 months… that’s a LONG LONG time!!!” That is a long, long time. And I know that when I sleep better I feel better. And when I feel better I have fewer of “those days”. I had two of them in a row this weekend. Blech. So I am going to get to bed on time. End of story.

I’ve gone back to basics with The Tater Tot re: sleeping as well. Her naps have been kind of all over the map lately and I wondered if she is transitioning to one nap a day. I’m not sure she’s ready for that, though because when she skips her afternoon nap, even if her morning nap has ended at 10:45 or 11:00, she is Crank Monster. So, before I tweak her routine to get to one nap a day I decided I’d try something else first. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child Dr. Wiessbluth recommends putting your child down for the first nap 2 to 2 1/2 hours after they wake up. I’ve been putting Tater Tot down around 3 1/2 hours after she wakes up and she’s been taking a while to fall asleep. Not crying but talking to herself and playing for a looooong time. Yesterday I don’t even think she fell asleep at all during her first nap time. So I decided that, even if she resisted at first, I would try putting her down earlier for her first nap. Well, she did resist but she fell asleep within 20 minutes (as opposed to 45 or so) and so far she’s been asleep for almost an hour. We’ll see if this continues but you can bet I’m going to do it again tomorrow. I had been waiting to put her down because she didn’t seem sleepy. But apparently she was and I just didn’t know it!

So we are officially back to our regularly scheduled programming with The Mommy feeling like she is doing a good job and The Tater Tot happy and healthy. Tune in later when you’ll hear The Mommy say “Holy Toddling, Tater Tot! You’re walking all by yourself!”