The Kazz Family: February 2009

Hadley is quite the three year old!! The last week with going to bed has been better. 3 out of the last 4 nights she's gone to bed right away. I finally said enough is enough when it came to sitting upstairs in our room while we waited for her to scream it out. I was being held prisoner by a 3 year old for 2-4 hours a night!! I'd already taken almost everything out of her room anyhow since she kept breaking things. If she's upstairs screaming now we just check on her periodically, walk her back to bed, then come downstairs. Since doing that the longest screaming episode was two hours. She has this thing now with keeping her light on while she sleeps. Whatever it takes.....

We do a lot of what I call bribing, but what is really behavior modification. We use Harley and the Cinderall dress as things she loses or earns back. Harley the cat really seems to work best. She still bites off an on. It had been several weeks so I thought we were done with biting, and then she bit twice this week at daycare. She lost Harley for a day, but earned him back last night. For going to sleep without screaming last night she got her fingernails painted. She thought that was the greatest thing. Tomorrow she gets her toes painted if she goes right to bed. After that we'll have to come up with something else!!

Hadley still says I have a baby brother in my tummy. She also said baby brother is going to sit in her booster chair. We'll find out 4 weeks from today!!