The girls don't get enough sleep. I've been keeping track and about half the time they get less than 11 hours per day and the rest of the time they get a little more than 11, but definitely less than 12. They should (according to Babycenter) be getting between 11 and 14 (so, half the time they barely get the minimum). This has been the case for last 9+ months, when they dropped their nap at exactly 2.5 years of age. For the most part they seem to do fine on this amount, occasionally falling asleep in the car or less often on the couch in the late afternoon/early evening. But lately they seem to almost always get really cranky and fussy in the late afternoon/early evening. Then they get super wound up right before bed, which I've read is actually a sign of overtiredness. So I'm trying to figure out how I can get them to sleep more. I can't put them to bed earlier, because they simply won't stay in bed, let alone go to sleep. We have a hard enough time getting them to bed between 9:00 and 9:30. Any earlier is downright impossible. It seems logical that if I started getting them up earlier in the morning that they would in turn go to bed earlier, but first of all, that only solves the issue of them staying up "too late", not of getting more sleep, as they would still only get 10-11 hours, they'd just be on an earlier schedule. Second of all, it wouldn't work anyway, because more often than not they would just fall asleep in the late afternoon/early evening and still stay up late. Sigh.
It's time for this week's Show Us Your Life, brought to you by Kelly's Korner , and this week it's dining rooms. We have a very open floorplan, so when you walk in our front door the dining room is to the right and the living room to the left, with the fireplace straight ahead. It's basically all one big room. I bought the table and sideboard at Dania when I bought my first condo back in 2002. It looked great in that condo, but for this house I wish I had black dining room furniture. The table and sideboard are the same color as the trim, and then with the white walls (although we finally got one wall painted) it's just so blah. And like most other rooms in the house, we have yet to hang curtains (not that we're going to hang them in every room, but we have yet to hang any). Looking in from the kitchen. Need curtains! Looking in from the living room. Notice the plastic protector underneath, for when the kids throw their sp...
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