good news, bad news

I haven't done one of these in awhile....

-The good news is that Rebecca slept all night the last two nights!  Both nights she went to bed around 7, I didn't get her up at 9:30 to feed her like I've been doing (in order to prevent a middle of the night wake up), and I had intended on letting her cry it out when she woke up in the middle of the night, only she didn't!  She slept straight through until 7:00 or 7:15!  12+ hours!  Woo hoo!!!!

-The bad news is that she's a terrible napper.  45 minutes is pretty much the longest nap she takes.  She takes several of them a day.  I don't know how to solve the problem.  I let her cry, trying to get her to go back to sleep, but yesterday she cried for an entire HOUR without stopping.  The poor girl.  I felt like a terrible mom.  After an hour it was time to eat so I got her up.  Should I have let her keep going?  I don't know what to do.

-The good news is that Rachel has graduated to a booster seat in the car.  She loves it, and I love that it's so much easier to fasten her in.

-The bad news is that now I have to switch Rebecca over out of the infant carrier, into Rachel's old seat.  This means that I'll no longer be able to pop her carrier out of the car and into the stroller to push her in to school or the store or wherever we're going.  The ramifications of this are that she'll have to wear a coat (instead of being covered with the super warm cover in her carrier), which means I'll have to wrangle her into said coat before going out, and also have to carry her everywhere.  I'm trying to wait out the cold weather before I make the switch, but unfortunately she keeps gaining weight and is very soon going to outgrow her carrier, likely before the weather turns warmer.

-The good news is that Rachel didn't pull a card today at school.

-The bad news is that she pulled one on Monday (for not obeying the teacher--twice) and also that she had a meltdown today because she wouldn't share a jump rope with a boy in the gym.  Ugh.  I'm glad she's learning these lessons now, before kindergarten begins in the fall, but something tells me that we'll still be dealing with the same issues then.