fall back...

The fall time change used to be a much anticipated weekend for us....an extra hour of sleep!! Who can argue with that? All of that changed last year when we found that time changing also meant schedule changing for a little one. I remember it taking a long time to get back to normal last year. So today my little 18 month old alarm clock went off at 5:15....not the way I was hoping to spend my extra hour today! We decided to let her go awhile and see if she'd go back to sleep. SHE DID!!! She slept until 6:45 (which actually felt like 7:45, so that was more than acceptable!). I was pleasantly surprised. Her nap this afternoon left much to be desired, though. Usually she goes down between 12:30 and 1:00. Today I put her down at 12:30, thinking she'd be exhausted because it would feel like 1:30 to her. Well, she talked and squealed and cracked herself up for a good 20 minutes before falling asleep. And then woke up not a half hour later! Again I decided to let her go to let her put herself to sleep. This time I was out of luck. She ended up screaming and crying, so I finally, after waiting a half hour, hoping she'd go back to sleep, got her up. She was happy as a clam, though, and was great all afternoon and evening. Strange! I put her in bed at her normal time (even though it would feel later to her) to hopefully get her back on track. We'll see when she wakes up tomorrow.