Sleeping Arrangements

This week the sleeping arrangements have been changed around a little bit in an attempt to sleep-train little Felix.  Since returning from the States this summer his nighttime sleeping patterns have been totally messed up.  At first we could pass it off as jet-lag when he became wide awake at 2:30 in the morning... but days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months and all of a sudden it wasn't as cute anymore!

Solution: Felix moves into Evie's (small) bedroom while Evie takes Felix's place in our (big) bedroom.  With the risk of speaking too soon and ruining it all, it is actually going really well!  For the past three nights Felix has slept from 8pm until 5:30am without waking, at which point he nurses (in "his" bedroom) and returns to sleep for another two hours or so.  

With this experiment we have also learned a lot about Evie's nighttime adventures.  It turns out she's a talker.  She talks a lot in her sleep, in Dutch and in English.  We've heard her say, "Ik wil het nu (I want it now), I hungry!" and "Just Dutch."  The first night she was also startled awake by a dream.  She said, "There was a bird in my bed and I don't like that very much!"

In early 2010 we are hoping to both of the kids together in one room, the big bedroom, and we'll have to move into the small bedroom.  Hopefully it's big enough for our bed.  More about that as the time comes.