Nov 11
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I’m not doing much other than marking time at the moment, trying to recover from a cold, and trying to eke out enough sleep to get by on.
I’ve got a bunch of pictures from the weekend, and a report on this month’s dinner club to write up, but it’s going to have to wait.
Oct 30
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Katherine turned six yesterday! Although we’re having our party later in November, we had cake and a song yesterday, and she got one present to open. Unfortunately, either the excitement or the caffeine and sugar in the large amount of chocolate cake she ate prompted her to wake up at 11:30 last night and not go back to sleep until 3:45.
So my birthday present to her was to be calm and understanding as I slowly slipped back into the state of exhaustion that’s so familiar these days. I would feel worse if I thought this was a pattern, but I do think it was just the excitement of the day. She’d had three good nights in a row before this and it was obvious she wanted to sleep, just couldn’t for some reason. We’ll reset again tonight and give it another try, this time without the chocolate cake 30 minutes before bedtime.
We did get some good pictures, with which I’ll update this post later this afternoon.
Oct 26
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I’m not sure things have ever been worse on the sleep front for the Wigdahl kids. Jonathan’s fussiness has ramped up; we had been very hopeful that he was going to be completely easy, but he’s turning out to be more like Thomas than Katherine on that front. We’re still hoping that he’s just feeling under the weather or reacting badly to something Robin ate, or to the formula that we’ve supplemented him with. We’re going to try soy formula for that and see if that improves things at all.
That leaves the two other kids. After months of great sleep, Katherine is back in a rut of getting up in the middle of the night nearly every night. Sometimes she goes back to sleep easily, and sometimes she stays up. With her it seems more like a matter of habit — once she’s off track she stays off track until we manage to get her retrained, so we’re having to jump on that.
And Thomas, who’s always been the best sleeper, has been getting up way too early lately for varied and poorly-specified reasons, which makes him crankier.
All in all, it sucks. I’ve been taking care of Katherine’s wakings while Robin deals with Jonathan, so neither of us are even close to getting a good night’s sleep. I have high hopes that we’ll get things figured out and back on track, but for now there are a lot of yawns at Casa de Wigdahl.
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