Sleep training

After enduring a couple of weeks of horrible sleeping by Evelyn (waking up typically 2-3 times a night, sometimes up for an hour or two at a time), we've finally decided she's healthy enough to start sleep training again. (She's been sick since before Christmas; when we took her to the doctor last week the dr said she had bronchitis). Anyway, last night was the first night. Not surprisingly, when she woke up, she cried when she discovered no one was going to rock her to sleep again. Then she proceeded to make little noises in her crib on and off for THREE hours (why is it that all the books make it sound like they may cry for 20-40 minutes, and then cry themselves to sleep?). The only thing that made this endurable was that my sister loaned me her copy of the Hunger Games, so at least I had something interesting to read instead of just listening to my baby. And after she went to sleep she did sleep until morning.

However, our sleep training schedule took an unexpected twist for the worse around 4 a.m., when Andrew woke up complaining about stomach pains. He then proceeded to throw up, an exercise that he repeated again just after 5. So, between one kid keeping us awake in the earlier part of the evening (10-1ish) and Andrew waking up when he did, we had a pretty interesting night. The worst part of it all is, that if Andrew is sick (and it doesn't seem to be food poisoning, since no one else is sick), he's likely to pass it on to Evelyn, which means that we we may not be able to finish what we started last night . . . . at least not until everyone is better again. Sigh.