Last night, Melanie woke up in the middle of the night. I changed her diaper and rocked her a bit but when I was lying her down to go back to sleep, she cried out to me. Knowing she wasn't feeling well, I asked if she wanted to sleep with me & daddy. She said, "Yes". So I scooped her & her blankets up, and carried her over to the bed.
Brian reluctantly made room for her and we had her all settled in. Then here's a pretty much verbatim account of the co-sleeping project.
"Hi kitty!"
"shh... kitty's sleeping."
"Kitty sleeping?"
"Yes, now go to sleep."
"Oooooh dark."
"Melanie, go to sleep now."
"Daddy sleeping?"
"Yes honey, daddy's sleeping."
"Shhhhh..."
"Hi kitty!"
"Melanie, lie down and go to sleep."
About 5 minutes of that, I realized there was just too much distraction in our room for Melanie. So I took her back to her room and placed her back in her crib. Melanie wasn't too happy - and she did cry out in protest - but in about 10 minutes, the house was silent again.
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