So I have to ask myself, "What is really one more?" and you might be thinking, What??!?
You already have two dogs, a cat, and 4 kids!
But the last two nights, it has been crazy at our house at night.
This is how it started; we are all in bed for the night and then around 2 AM the craziness began:
Cassie comes walking into our room to use the "bathroom," that is always her excuse. Cassie then climbs into our bed, like she doses every night. The thing about Cassie is she is a very active sleeper and the closer she can be next to someone the better, so she thinks; and with those two combos, it is quite a night, but it gets better...
...Dan takes Cassie back to her room, where she is crying because she doesn't want to leave our bed...
...About 20 minutes later, Cassie comes back into our bed. Dan decide to pick his own battles, and lets her stay in our bed. Cassie won!
BUT here is where the really fun begins!
About an hour later, Carson comes into our room and wants to come into our bed! He never does that!! But he had no intention to go back to his own bed, so being tired from dealing with Cassie, Carson climbs into the bed.
So with Dan and myself in our king bed, PLUS Carson and Cassie, we were all "fighting" for the covers, so with Dan's toes being uncovered, the cat, Kingston was biting his toes on top of everything else,
BUT it keeps on going...
...So next Mackenzie comes into the room crying cause she had a bad dream and she couldn't go back to sleep, so she wanted to sleep with us...
...so she climbs into the bed, but thinks that she needs to bring her American Girl doll as well and they both needed to sleep in the middle, causing Carson and Cassie to wake back up!
What a crowed mess! So FINALLY at 6 AM on a SATURDAY morning, I get out of my OWN bed and go into Mackenzie's bed to try and get some sleep...
and one hour later, all the kids awake up and come and get me up.
See I told you, What is one more???
And this is what we have dealt with the last TWO NIGHT!
See it usually happens with Cassie or at least one kid, but we have had 3 or our 4 kids the last couple of nights and it is starting to really mess up on my sleep and I am a mom who needs sleep!!!
Anyone have suggestions for what we can do. A king bed can only hold so many people comfortably and I want my bed back!
5 comments:
Wow, I thought we had it bad.
We have the kids bring in their pillow and blanket. And they get to sleep by the side of our bed, on the floor,instead of in our bed. It's not perfect, but it's better than being over crowded. And I'm hoping that one day they will find that uncomfortable and will prefer to stay in their bed. Wishful thinking?
I'm with ya.... when we have a sick kid we let them sleep in our bed. So I have had Rylee in our bed since Wednesday night... talk about poor sleep! We do the floor bed too ut they are all now insisting that it's too scary!
Christy, Been there done that. I know what you are going through. Blaise and Brogan slept in our bed and room forever. I would put them in their bed to sleep, and in the middle of the night we had to new bodies in our bed, kicking us all night and taking the blankets. I found myself not sleeping at all. I told myself i need to get this under control before the new baby comes. I didn't want to be up all night with all three kids. So here is what i did, and i can say my kids now sleep all night long in their own beds,and i get to sleep soundly with the hubby. I've been taking this parenting class. called love and logic. And it has been a blessing. It teaches us as parents to let your kids make all the decisions. For example. Do you want to wear this shirt or this one. (you picked them both out so you don't care) Do you want to sleep with the door opened or closed, the light on the light off etc.....Then let them know, that because they keep coming in your bed at night, that mommy doesn't get any sleep, and so you are tired all the time, and you can't do all the mommy things that they want you to do. Mommy is tired i can't do the dishes you need to help me tomorrow. mommy is tired i can't make a yummy breakfast lunch or dinner. And so on. So give them the choice. And this is big. Ask them: Do you want to sleep with Mommy's door (to you room) open tonight, or locked? Of course their answer will be opened. So give them the choice again. If it's open you can't come to my room. If you do I will lock it. And stick to it Christy!!!!! The first two nights, i was up all night, putting them back in their beds and telling them I'm going to lock the door if they come in again. I had to lock my door the first and second night, because they kept coming out. And ever so often I'll remind them. Stay in your beds tonight or mommy will lock her door. But now it's not a problem. The pearsons are all sleeping in their own beds, and it's great!!!!!
Sounds like you have lots of good advice already, but one thing that worked for us:
Chad wandered at night...we would find him under our bed, in the hall on the floor or out on the couch...he was not sleep walking, he would just wake up, walk around at night and then find a spot to lay down. My doctor recommended that we put a gate up infront of his door so he can't get out. (We actually put it out in the hall so he could still go to the bathroom if he needed to)... After about a week, it worked!
I know how you feel. Whitney and Wyatt used to come into our room too, but it is because Rawlyn who put his foot down and said, "NO more kids in our bed!!" that they do not come in anymore. If they didn't want to go back to their beds, I would tell them to go out to the Love Sac in the loft and sleep, but there is NO room in our bed.. . . it is only a queen size.
We would cheer, give high 5's and sometimes a treat of ice cream if they would stay in their OWN beds ALL night long. It took a week or two, but now they don't get up anymore. (hopefully I haven't spoken too soon).
Good Luck!
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