Musical Beds

I know that the sleeping gets better as the kids get older, and generally we're much better off than we were a few years ago when we were suffering from ear infections and night terrors. But Clara's in a bit of a low at the moment, which impacts all of us (well, Bridges more than me as he now gives in before I do when it comes to getting out of bed in the middle of the night).

It started a month or so ago when Clara stopped wanting to sleep alone (let's remember that her sister is sleeping just a few feet above her so she's not exactly alone). But, she wants someone in bed with her. We did a bit of the lying down with her to get her to sleep, and Bridges would do that in the middle of the night too. A few nights he ended up sleeping in there next to her for several hours. She was up at least once a night pretty consistently.

Her behavior has now morphed into a strange form of musical beds. She's napped in our bed for a long time, but now she'll mix it up, sometimes opting for the guest room or for her bed. At night, we put her down in her own bed, but if she doesn't fall asleep right away, we'll often agree to move her to our bed or to the guest room (and we'll move her back to her bed when we go to bed). The other night, I put her to bed in her bed, but when I went upstairs later, she was sound asleep in the guest room. During the night, she switches beds at least once. If she was asleep in the guest room she wants to go to her bed, and vice versa. The problem is that we haven't gotten her to the point of doing this without waking us up.

Lee is amazingly undisturbed by all the goings-on. She never even asks anymore "Where's Clara?" in the morning.