Tonight was the first night of Big Girl Bedtime. It is a completely fabricated event that A and I created out of desperation. We plotted against her last night and introduced her to the idea this morning.
-E, today is a big day. Do you know what today is?
-Yeah! (questioning look)
-Today is the beginning of Big Girl Bedtime!
-Yeah! Big Girl Bedtime!
She was all over it. We took a trip to Wal-Mart after school today buy a "big girl" timer. We spent the whole evening psyching her up for the new Big Girl Bedtime routine. (For those of you wondering, this involves reading books in bed for 10 min. then cuddling for 5 minutes, then leaving) She was all excited about it until the 10 min. of story time was up. Then the screaming started. We have decided that we must just let her yell. We realized that we were letting her stall. I had to take her back to bed 5 times and she screamed (and I mean SCREAMED) for 15 min. but she eventually put herself back in the bed and calmed down. Hopefully it will only take a few nights like this for Operation Big Girl Bedtime to take complete effect and end the major bedtime battles. Now if we could just figure out how to get her to nap...
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