Sleepy Time Struggles and Cuddles

We have reached a point of consistency with Norah's sleep. Bedtime battles are rare, as are midnight wakings, and she is working hard at staying quiet and in her room on weekend mornings if she wakes up and we are still sleeping. 

Macy, on the other hand…oh, Macy. She rarely wakes in the middle of the night and typically sleeps until about 6:30 in the morning (which is actually respectable for our household), but bedtime is…less than desirable. 

Rarely do we simply say "goodnight" and that's the end of it. Most often she leaves her bed and lays down on the floor by the door. She typically cries, and after trying the ignoring route for a while with zero success we have learned that if we go right back and ask if she is ready for us to put her in bed she'll answer "yes." We put her back in bed and while we usually don't hear anything more out of her she goes back to laying on the floor by the door and that's where she falls asleep. 

One night she fell asleep like this: 

And another night in her chair!

Why? JUST WHY?

But where she sleeps isn't that big of a deal -- we assume she'll eventually figure out that a bed is way more comfortable. We also find it ironic that once we are in our bed there is very little that could be done to get us back out again. 

And none of this is anywhere close to as bad as it was with Norah when she chased us to the door and screamed for 30-45 minutes before falling asleep on the floor.  

While we were in Goshen over the holidays, the girls shared a bed. All in all they did a really good job. We had some early morning wakings (usually Macy was the first), but considering they were sleeping in a different place, and together, we thought they did great. 

We enjoyed peeking in on them every night. Here is some of what we found: 

During the Gunden family Christmas the first weekend we were home they napped together at Lisa and Scott's. They fell asleep like this, holding hands: 

Ever since then they have taken naps together in Macy's bed. We lay with them until they fall asleep, which typically requires around 15 minutes of giggling and cuddling. They are usually either holding hands or Norah has her arm around Macy. They usually sleep for between 1 1/2 and 2 hours, and eventually emerge from Macy's room hand-in-hand. 

We have always talked about moving Macy into Norah's room, but would like to get Macy in a better routine before doing that. On the other hand, I wonder if she would do fine if she was in the room with Norah. We just might have to give it a try one of these weekends...