Sleep Training!

The man in the moon looked out of the moon

and this is what he said, 

"Now that I am getting up,

It's time that all children went to bed!"

Today I have officially hit my 6 months of being pregnant and at times it felt it has crawled by at a snail's pace and other times it feels like it has flown by and I wish I wasn't as far along so that I could cherish being pregnant for longer... actually who am I kidding!  Get this baby outta me I am way too excited to be a mom!  I obviously decided to train myself young to be a mom and become prepared.  Here is a secret I know almost no one will know about me and you'll be excited to know.  When I was little I loved babies and always would ask my mom for her to have another baby.  When I realized at some point very young this was not going to happen I decided to take dear matters into my own hands and I became a baby fool!  I had dolls galore but my favorite was my Emily doll (which I later came to find out that is what the girl in the novel A Little Princess named her baby doll, so it became that much more meaningful!)  My Emily doll was one my mom bought for me as a summer gift for doing well in school, and I remember going to Walmart and carefully looking over all the dolls before I picked one out.  My Emily doll went everywhere with me but what I loved the most about her was that she was no ordinary baby doll, she was a good size.  This meant that she fit in real clothes that babies actually wore and so I would save up my pennies from doing chores and other odd tasks for my mom and she would take me to places like Value Village, Salvation Army, and Goodwill so I could buy baby clothes for my Emily doll.  When I outgrew the time of when it was cool to play with dolls I lovingly packed my Emily doll away with the good clothes I had boughten for her to save for when I had my own children.  Now really I don't know if these clothes are any good still or what they even look like but I was thinking about that the other day.  Man do I love babies and really was ready to accept the motherhood role and started preparing myself when I was young.  With that little fun fact in mind today I wanted to do a six month come with me journey post about my pregnancy so my daughter can know some fun facts about when she was growing in my tummy.  But I am just getting ready for school and was excited to blog about something I am trying.

Humans are definitely creatures of habit, I have learned this more and more with my pregnancy.  Before becoming pregnant I was the 10:30- 6:30 girl and a morning bird at that.  My stepdad would lovingly call me a canary because at home before I got married as soon as I was up I was singing or playing my flute welcoming in the sunshine in song.  Now getting pregnant and marrying mr night owl my sleep schedule began to change.  Slowly my morning routine was off as the hormones kicked in and instead of abandoning mr J at 10:30 to go to bed, it would turn into 11:30.... 12:30... 1:30... 2:30... 3:30... and then I knew I had a problem.  Sometimes, I was blowing mr hubbins out of the water when my little peepers just wouldn't close and I had to get up because I was tossing and turning in bed.  But when I saw how late each day was getting and how much day was wasted from sleeping in I knew it had to change.  SO yesterday I started on the same journey we will have to teach our children "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise!"

 So 12:50 am isn't exactly early but it was a start.  I started my bedtime routine at 11:50 and realized just like a child it is going to take me an hour to settle myself down for bed and I need to get into some kind of sleep routine before baby comes and it will be all off whack again.  So J and I read our scriptures together, said bedtime prayers, I had a bath, and brushed my teeth, said my personal prayers and jumped into bed.  J promptly followed and I was impressed I told him of my goal and he wanted to follow.  So we both tossed and turned all night long, sleeping on and off but we were both up at quarter after six.  And we are both feeling a bit tired and drowsy but it is not that man i feel like I have been hit by a truck feeling from sleeping in too late.  So we will see how the rest of our week goes with sleep training.  Thinking about it now it seemed kind of silly to start on a wednesday night with the weekend so close but really do we need to be staying up when the weekend hits?  I don't think so!  Haha so have a wonderful happy day and hope you are feeling as bright eyed and bushy tailed as we are.