So obviously we have been a little busy recently so the posts have been few and far between. Well here we are about 3 weeks after Baby Jack's birth and we are starting get situated. Jack is cute and Avery loves being a big sister. She is always trying to help any chance she gets...it is so cute.
Prior to Baby Jack's arrival Avery has been going through a period of waking up at the butt crack of dawn. For all of you who know us we are not morning people. She tends to rise anywhere from 5am to 6am on bad days...way too early for us. We have been trying to figure out how to get her to sleep a bit longer or at least stay in her room and read books until 7am...she/we need it ;) I thought surely this can't be too hard...well I was wrong. A while back we found out about a nightlight that was designed by a Dad who created a nightlight that is a "Sun" during the day and at night is is the "Moon". It was called the GoodNiteLite. The concept is that you can set the nightlight to any time you want it to change to the sun to help identify that it is morning so they can understand that it is morning and they can get up. Looked great...sounded great...to bad it has been on backorder for like 2 months. So here we were on the waiting list....still waiting... ugh!
http://www.goodnitelite.com/
...So with the nightlight on backorder...I figured there has got to be another idea. Lately Avery has been intrigued with time and "What time is it?". She always knew that 7:00 was dancing with the stars but that was about it. Well I found another option to help with the early rising plus teach her time...TeachMeTime. We tried it last night for the first time...and although we still had a rough morning I think it will prove beneficial in helping her identify time and when to get up. Obviously, at 3 she has no concept of the duration of time....so when I tell her she has to wait about 30 minutes...she asks me about every 5 minutes..."has it been 30 minutes yet". The great thing is that it can also play games to help teach time. Hopefully we can get her to sleep in or chill in her room...she gets so cranky with the lack of sleep.
http://www.americaninnovative.com/products/teachmetime.php
