The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The good news (great really) is that Lily sleeps so well during the night, down between 7 and 8 and she usually doesn't wake again until 3 or 4 and then down again until 7 or 8. We know how lucky we are so it's hard to complain.

However the bad thing is that about a week and a half ago Lily decided that she is not really interested in sleeping during the day. She is tired and she gets cranky but no matter what I do she will only sleep for about 15 minutes (after about an hour of trying to get her to sleep) and then she wakes up crying again.

The ugly truth is that it is now becoming more about ME needing her to sleep during the day than it is getting her to sleep. If she was having problems sleeping at night I would be more worried about her, but since she gets a good 11-12 hours every night I know she is not doing too badly. Still the babe needs to sleep and I need a bit of a break during the day and it just isn't happening. I have tried everything to get her to sleep and all of the things that used to work no longer seem to be effective. I haven't hit upon the new thing that's going to make it happen. A walk will always work in the end, but the winter months don't always make it easy to get outside.

I don't really have any pictures or video of the trials and tribulations of not sleeping, but here is a sweet picture of her in bed with Hoppity.