My girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the tiiimmmee. That song kept running through my mind and of course, Dancing on the Ceiling. I'm probably dating myself here, although I was very young when those songs came out, but my my...we are smack dab in the middle of the 9 month sleep regression. Hard core.
But first let me back up, yesterday Peanut actually pulled up to standing all by herself! She is a little bit behind on this developmental stage but I'm not worried about it, She is working hard. And I recently came to the conclusion that she's just too vertically challenged (read: short like her mom) to reach most things to even try and pull up. But yesterday as I as packing up the Christmas decorations, she crawled over--still mostly on her belly but she's working on lifting it off the floor--to the plastic storage bins. These happen to be just the right height for her to reach the top from a sitting position. She then pulled herself up ALL.BY. HERSELF! No help from me. I was sooo proud. And so was she. She gets this smug look on her face when she accomplishes something and it's the cutest thing ever. Really.
So we called Daddy and told him all about it. He said she'd been working on that all day but hadn't quite been able to do it. It's very cool that I was there for a "first". Anyway, once he told me she'd been working on it all day I knew we were in for rough sleep. She has been sick for the past week with fever and tummy troubles so we've already been getting crappy sleep. Top that off with the second tooth that's STILL trying to break on through to the other side...and jeez, we don't sleep right now.
We went through our routine as usual (book, bath, nurse to sleep) and then about 30 minutes after she is peacefully sleeping, her body has other ideas. She is literally crawling all over the bed in her sleep. And sitting up...trying to stand. She did this all night long, much to her frustration and mine as well.
And while I was very frustrated, I have to say it was so funny seeing her sit up, look around all drowsy-like with head bobbing left and right, then roll back down onto her belly or back. Her body was in crawling action mode all night long while she tried --and I tried-- to sleep. The 9 month sleep regression really is no joke. Fool. (courtesy of Mr. T in your pocket)
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