Sleep Fiasco

We are a hot mess of bad sleep up in here.  And as much as I'd like to fix it I sorta wonder what is the point right now.

Here is where we are at.

We just went down to VA to look for housing.  While there Em slept with Paul in one bed all week and I slept in the other bed.  She napped in the car all week since we were looking at houses.  Since we are moving into a hotel April 21st until our end of June move we decided when we got home to transition Em to the toddler bed.  If we weren't moving into a hotel without room for a crib I totally would've waited.  As it is we bought a toddler cot for Em to use at the hotel.

Em has NOT taken well to the toddler bed.  But I also think she knows something is going on, lots of changes, but doesn't really know what.  So she wants one of us to sit in her room with her until she falls asleep.

So, we bought the tot clock.  Last night Paul came up to bed about 1am.  Not long after I felt eyes staring at the back of my head.  Rolled over and guess who was visiting?  Yup, Em.  I asked her what color her clock was and that it was still blue so it was still time to sleep in her bed.  I asked Paul to take Em back to bed not knowing that he had already fallen into a coma like sleep.  She walks around to his side of the bed, he gets up, picks her up, and puts her in our bed (Em is smart and comes prepared...she brings her pillow AND her lovie when she comes into our room).  Um, what????  So I get up, go turn off her humidifier and nightlight and come back to bed.  Em slept until 7:30 so I can't really complain.

Fast forward to naptime.  Paul took Em up to bed.  She would not stay in bed.  We try to have her napping by 2pm.  Finally after much crying and me sitting in her room she fell asleep at 3pm.  I woke her up at 4:15pm.

Fast forward to bedtime.  We gave her a bath, she had milk, Paul read her stories, and Sasha (our boxer) fell asleep in her room.  Of course as soon as Paul got downstairs Sasha got up and Em followed.  Ugh!  We called up to her to go back to bed because sometimes that works.  Not so much tonight.  She laid down for a little bit and then I heard our bedroom door open (did I mention that we close all the doors on the 2nd floor, but Em figured out how to open doors today?  Super fun.) so I head upstairs to find Em has also figured out how to climb onto our bed.  She is laying in the middle with her hands behind her head, huge grin on her face, saying "Sleep with mommy."  Her fave phrase!  I take her back to bed, she's crying, and I sit in the chair until she falls asleep.  I did put her crib bumper (we use the breathable one) back up around the front of the toddler bed thinking it might help her feel more secure.

We just figured that between moving into a hotel, all of us in 1 bedroom with a newborn, and then moving to a new house in VA her sleep is pretty much going to be a hot mess until we get settled in July.  Ahhh the glamorous life of the military!

PS Where do kids learn to fib?  In the past 2 days Em has told me twice that each of our dogs ate a crayon when I found 2 of them, at different times, broken on the ground AND when she had pooped and I asked her if she did she told me it was her Pluto toy dog!  I'm hoping she is just being creative and using her imagination.  Shaking my head.