Sleeping

Edit:  I wrote this a long time ago and decided to post it just for our records.  I wish it would have posted with the original date though.  Argh.

This was a huge week for our progress with Mirei.  We didnt do a great job with her sleep training and kept hoping that because she has Taisei that she would somehow sleep train herself.  We hoped she would simply learn to soothe herself, or at least rely on Taisei and learn to sleep.  Neither things really happened.  That's partly good and partly bad.  Finally, we had to put Taisei downstairs to sleep by himself in the office.  Funny thing was he happily did it.  He was so fed up with Mirei screwing around before bedtime that he was happy to get some peace and quiet.  It was kind of a pain, but Mirei finally got used to sleeping by herself.  The funny thing is that she doesn't care whether Taisei's in the room with her or not.  She's not scared.  She's just unwilling to go to bed.  We had to go through patiently listening to all her excuses, listening to her bang on the door (since she hasn't slept in the crib since 8 months, remember?), and all kinds of the typical stuff before she finally realized that we're serious.  Then, she finally did it.  It's not consistent every night, but she'll go to bed after one or two times of soothing, usually.  If she's tired, she'll just go right to bed.  The good thing now is that she's finally learned to understand when she feels tired and sometimes she'll even tell us.  She'll say, "I'm tired, papa."  And I'll say "You're tired, Mirei?"  "Yeah."  "Do you want to go to bed?"  "No."  At least she's totally honest.