No Pacie - Night Two

So I can't say that night two went as well as night one. Jane asked about her pacie a couple times during the day, but then would say, "we have no more pacies, we gave them to the dentist." Nap time went pretty well, she seemed to sleep about the same.

But bed time was a different story. She didn't really ask for it specifically, but she seemed to just be sad and quick to cry in general. Though she toddled off to bed pretty easily, she was up again around 10pm, and just could not seem to get herself calm and soothed down. She didn't ask for the pacie, which I guess proves that it is good to just visibly get rid of them (in front of her like we did), because she seems to totally get that they are gone. She just doesn't have another skill developed yet to soothe herself to sleep. So she had some water, plenty of hugs and then we put her down again.

She talked herself to sleep, but woke up this morning at 5:40am (about two hours earlier than normal) and since bed is now much less appealing, she wanted to get up right away. Mars and I were pretty exhausted, but hadn't really discussed what we would do in the morning, so we got up with her up. If this happens again we are definitely going to insist that she say quietly in her room until at least 6:30am.

But once we were all up in the kitchen having breakfast, in the dark, she was so tired. She clearly didn't sleep well, and she kept crying and getting into trouble, and had had three major tantrums (which had actually been on the decline lately) and two "thinking times" (which are kind of our versions of time-outs) before we even left for pre-school.

The pre-school drop-off went well though, and I let the teacher know she may need a few extra hugs today, so who knows.