Our Little Night Owl

Charlotte has always been an interesting sleeper. She never liked sleeping in our bed and she doesn't like to be held when she sleeps, she just wants to get in her bed and go to sleep, no one else is needed...we didn't mind at all, it was a nice break after sharing our bed with Timothy for so long. We began to notice, once she started talking, that she would sit in her crib for hours some nights just talking and singing and playing and sometimes she would just be up all night long, singing and playing. We were a little worried when we moved her to a big girl bed that she would just stay up and play in her room all night long (which she does, on occasion)...but we figured she would at least stay in her room. When we moved Timothy to a big bed, we put a child-proof lock on the inside door knob so that he couldn't just walk out whenever he wanted, he never figured out how to open them (he still can't open them) and after a while we just took them off and it hasn't been a problem since. Charlotte, on the other hand, figured out the first night in her new big girl bed room how to pop them off and walked right out. We would find her in the toy room playing, in Timothy's room reading his books while he was sleeping in his bed...she's a sneaky little girl!

The other problem we had been running into, was with Caroline. We had decided that, this time around, we would get a video monitor for her room so Brandon got it for me for Christmas. We hooked it up but found that the only way to put it in her room and actually still see her on the camera was to put the camera in her bed with her. I wasn't a big fan of this, but until recently she couldn't really grab things or roll so it wasn't a big deal. Lately though, she had stopped sleeping her bed and I started wondering if it was because the camera was in there with her (it has a small light on it, but it's not bad).

So last night we decided to switch the girl's monitors. Caroline slept 11 hours, it was the best night ever! Charlotte...was hilarious! We saw her get up out of bed and head to her door to pop off the child proof lock, Brandon pushed the "Talk" button on our end of the monitor and told her to go back to bed and she turned around and ran back to bed so fast!! It was so funny! She only tried a couple of times and then she was out for the night, it was great! I really don't know why it took us so long to figure this all out, but now we have good sleeping girls and a little bed time entertainment, life is good :)