Schedule

Are you a scheduled person?? I am not, at all. My kids are not, I guess I taught them that. When they were babies, they kinda had a sleep/eat schedule, but that fluctuated all the time, and it didn't seem to phase them, or me very much.

Our babies now, are scheduled. Well, when Z was little, he wasn't that scheduled.....he went with the flow pretty well, and adapted to whatever I needed him to do. He would still prefer to stay up late everynight. I think he could easily be a person that stayed up late, slept late. Which was great when we worked from home and I was homeschooling. I remember Amber and Hunter, and Talan too, all went to bed the same time, woke up the same time. I tried my hardest to get Amber and Hunter to alter from that, b/c I didn't like to get up with the roosters, and didn't function well, nor deal with her high energy first thing in the morning. She would never change. If I kept her up late, she still woke up the same time, but I regretted her lack of sleep all-day-long.

Baby C is scheduled. Very scheduled. You know it is bedtime without even looking at the clock. You know when he wakes up in the morning, it is somewhere close around 7 am....(although since daylight savings time it has been closer to 8). He does not like to alter from this schedule one bit. I have tried my hardest to get Z on this same schedule, so that we can all get up and get to school on time. If we can keep the same schedule every single day and night, he does o.k.

Daylight savings time has really messed us up. I have never had such a time recovering myself from the time change. Then, we went out of town this weekend. Major mess-up of a schedule. Enough that I don't want to leave the house again for a very long time. I love getting to go to Monticello, and enjoy spending time with my family, but I am still paying for their schedule interruption. C who always sleeps through the night, decided why we were gone to wake up and freak out for a bottle, and not wanting to disturb everyone, I gave him one. So now, he is wanting that bottle again every night. Z....you can never predict which nights he will sleep through the night, and which nights he will rock the house for hours. This is why I love that baby C has a predictable schedule.

And now I feel as disregulated as these poor babies. This is a new thing for me. I have always been able to adapt with our without sleep, change my schedule, catch up on sleep, and get back going soon. My babies are rubbing off on me I guess. I feel like I am developing sensory issues, I am suffering right along with them. :) Last night and this morning were rough. Z didn't sleep well at all last night, he had therapy first thing this morning at daycare, so I had to get him up and get him there. He was crying all the while I was getting him ready. I know all he wanted was for me to sit back and hold him, but I couldn't. When we got to daycare, he was so upset, screaming....it was very hard.