G still mostly sleeps in our bedroom.   We’ve been struggling with this one for quite a long time. Every time we seem to get some traction for her sleeping in her own bed, we take a trip or she gets sick or something happens and she’s back in our room.   I think I’m going to have to paint her room full of dinosaurs and dragons and yodas and shit for this to stop

We vowed not to make this mistake with Alana.   And largely it has been working. Put her in her crib, complete silence until dawn. That was going great up until about about…3 days ago.   Now she is keenly aware of where we are and howls until she falls asleep.   The howling is punctuated by new-found usage of shrieking, saturated with “mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy”, and peppered with a few “daddys!” for good measure.   Eventually she falls asleep.   Then she wakes up and it starts again.

It is awful. I tune it out. Then I feel sad for how little love we’re giving her compared to her sister. Then I’m kinda touched by how aware she has become of everyone in her family and how she wants to be around us all the time.   Then I’m kinda afraid that I will soon be sleeping in G’s room since my bed is full.