Going on two weeks now my sweet Abby has turned into one serious nightowl. Not a good thing for a two year old and definitely not something I encourage. And no matter how hard I try I can’t seem to break this cycle. As you can tell, I’m sitting here at 1am writing a blog post not because I can’t sleep but because I can’t get my stubborn toddler in bed. I know she’s sleepy, I can look at her and tell. Plus she’s sick 🙁 but she refuses to go to bed. We’ve tried moving up her naptime, we even eliminated nap time yesterday and that was a total fail. She was beyond exhausted and ready for bed by 7 and then woke back up at 9…and we didn’t get her back to bed until 3am! She’s usually much better about going to bed but lately all we hear is “no night night” and it becomes hours of trying to get her in bed. She doesn’t sleep in during the day, she’s up bright and early and quite active… it’s like she doesn’t need sleep but I know she does. I want to get her on a schedule, I want a set bedtime! 🙂 This mommy is TIRED yet my little sweetie is wide awake. Hoping (and praying) she’ll decide soon to go night night so I can get a little rest before she’s telling me good morning.
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We are living this post right now too! lol. My daughter is 26 months and has started staying up half the night! I’ve had to cut the glorious long naps way back (almost in half) and that helped some but didn’t solve the problem. Now we’ve decided to start cutting out sugar of any form after 5pm… plus adding in a longer wind down time. Best of luck to you… I feel your frustration!
I truly considered completely eliminating nap time but on days she doesn’t nap she’s impossible and exhausted way too early. I blame her daddy, he gave her sugar lol I think we went to bed around 3am which means I actually fell asleep about 4 and she was in my room by 8… *yawn* I hate it the most because I can’t get anything done around the house, I have such a horrible headache and no energy. I have a feeling tonight will be just as bad since we are expecting storms… she hates storms. I with you the best of luck and hope things get better!