Mimi’s sleeping hours is 11:30 pm to 9:30 am which happens to be to be very close to Annie and mine sleeping hours. This is because unless Mimi knows that we have turned off all the lights and that everyone is actually in bed, she will have someone she can keep playing with. After lights out Mimi then tries every trick she can think of to get us to turn the lights back on. This includes running around, jumping and climbing on things, peeing, pooping, wanting nana, wanting nana again, bring her toys back into the room, trying to read a book, pretending to sleep on the floor, etc… When we finally have her convinced it is time for bed, then she decides who she wants to sleep with, either with Annie and me, or with Minnie. This involves a long process of going back and forth between the rooms bringing her pillow and blanket here and there. After all this and the fact she is dead tired, she will pick a room, lie down, and finally go to sleep within 5 minutes.
Sleeping is another battle. In Minnie's room it is ok because Mimi has a big bed for herself. When Mimi is sleeping with Annie and I, it becomes much more problematic. Mimi is a light sleeper, and she also tosses and turns all over the bed. Therefore when she tosses and turns and hits either me or Annie, she will wake up and start crying. So to keep her asleep Annie and I have to position ourselves so that Mimi occupies the maximum area of the bed. Therefore we end up sleeping like this where normally I would be at the bottom edge of the bed…
There are other configurations but usually it is Annie and I sleep in an L shape occupying 2 edges of the bed and the rest of the bed goes to Mimi. Someday Mimi will sleep by herself and will get her own bed, until then all we can do is keep up our strengths and hope that this little girl won’t make 3 grown adults go crazy.
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