Stringy!!!

stoneycakes

YGPM

The rest of you...

sarenu1

As always.  So worth poping in.

candlequeen

Is that Paul Rudd? I heart him

TJ1979

stoneycakes

TJ1979 said:

Oh I forgot, TJ.  I should have sent you a PM about how I don't have a PM for you

TJ1979

That would have been nice.

stoneycakes

TJ1979 said:

That would have been nice.

YGPM

TJ1979

TJ1979

stringy813 said:

TJ1979 said:

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Oh, that was to Stoney, but thanks for the gratuitous shirtless guy shot!  I know that's not really your jam.  Thoughtful of you.

stoneycakes

Damn.  She could do laundry on those abs.

stoneycakes

That is so hard, stringy.  I remember when we were having sleep troubles and I read All. The Books.  It was so frustrating because I felt like most of the advice was stuff I was already doing naturally.  So you read this entire book and you're like "Well that doesn't work. Thanks for nothing."

TJ1979

Have you tried reading her a book?

https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165X

stoneycakes

theultimatesak said:

This might be dumb, but would she sleep somewhere else if she thought it was like a game? Like if you made a blanket fort in the floor in your room or hers?

Yeah.  Maybe turn the bed time routine on its head so she doesn't start immediately resisting?  DS thought it was amazeballs to sleep all together in the living room when we lost power.  Of course, we didn't actually get him to sleep until about 10pm.  So there's that.

TJ1979

Sorry.  I don't have any actual help.  Snark and humor are all I can offer.  And sleepy, sleepy hugs.

stoneycakes

stringy813 said:

TJ1979 said:

Have you tried reading her a book?

https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165X

I haven't bothered with the book, but I'm pretty sure I've uttered the words to her. Ok maybe yelled/cried them at her.

Maybe it would work better if you had her listen to the version where Samuel L Jackson reads it aloud.

stoneycakes

stringy813 said:

TJ1979 said:

Have you tried reading her a book?

https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165X

However if santa brought that i'd get a good kick out of it.

Do you think you'll get it in the mail if I buy it on amazon and have it delivered to "stringy" and then put the town where you live?

stoneycakes

stringy813 said:

theultimatesak said:

And that chandler gif might need to go in my siggy.

As long as you put the boobs too.

You'd regret that pretty rapidly. Especially in a thread like this where I am every other comment.

Nope. Can't take my eyes off it.

stoneycakes

ovenrack said:

LLOL!

ComeMai

stringy813 said:

Yea, though we did tell her when we filled out the form about routines and all that.

Oh this is SO her hill to die on - it has been since she was like 6 months old - but at least then we had boobs, bottles, and were able to rock and sway her to sleep.  I don't know if she knows that once she's asleep we will leave and is afraid to wake up in there alone (can she really think that far ahead?). I don't know if she has nightmares or night terrors that literally scare her.  If there were toddler psychiatrists I'd be there in a second. We don't even try to leave the room while she's still awake.

See if you can think of anything in her room that might scare her.  My oldest was 2.5 when we moved and she got a new room.  I slept in there with her the first week or so because she didn't want me to leave.   She finally said that her room was scary.  Turns out that the recliner in her room terrifies her. I had no idea because it was never a concern when it was in her old room. I covered the back with a baby quilt and then she was fine.  Could there be anything casting weird shadows?  We also got one of those IKEA flower lamps for both girls' rooms.  They are bigger than a night light, but dim enough that they can fall asleep.  

I'm sorry you're having such a struggle.  :-(