Which is the Lesser Evil?

Sleep is a problem in this house. It's always been a very tricky to get everyone sleeping enough so that they're not crabby but not too much so that they'll fall asleep at night.

Hannah is great at laying down in her bed. Most of the time she doesn't fall asleep unless she's laying down for more than two hours. When she falls asleep she, it's hard to wake her. She wakes up crabby and then she doesn't fall asleep at night for however long as she napped in the afternoon. So it's really not a winning situation.

Noah has been sleeping on me because he really needs to nap more. The better his naps are the better he sleeps at night. Now this is where the problem is. If he's napping on me then it's hard to get Hannah up from her bed without waking Noah. So I have to decide who will be less crabby if I wake them up.

Do I wish Noah would sleep in his crib. Yes! But we're taking it one step at a time. We need Noah to sleep consistently and well at night before I'm willing to tackle the day time sleep problem. Right now we're patting Noah every 15 minutes at night until he falls asleep. It's worked out alright the past two nights. I was even able to get him back to sleep at 2:30 without picking him up because he had just nursed at midnight. I knew that he wasn't hungry. He's just used to waking up about that time every night. He ended up sleeping until 4 a.m. Yipee! Not that I slept well. But I'm happy to see some change.