Finally!

Posted by Traci at 10:32 PM

Guess what?  It's 5:50 am and the kids have been asleep for, let's see, 6 freakin' hours!!!  My husband is the absolute CHAMP!!!  I mean CHAMP!!!


We always called him the baby whisperer and then toddler whisperer with Eli, but apparently his realm now extends to toddlers-adopted-from-China-who-have-serious-jet-lag-issues whisperer.  For any others out there who have similar issues, here's what we ended up at:

·           - Put Rosalee and Trey in the same room.  The first night we were home Eli very wisely decided to sleep in our guest bedroom in the Adventure Bed (shout out Bro. Bob!) so we set him up in there with his own things.  This was been excellent.  Much like Opie, he loves sleeping in there anyway, and this part of the house is gated off and gives him a place he can detox, haha (kind of haha).

·          - Gave up on trying to pull their schedule back and instead pushed it forward.  We kept them up until midnight. 

·          - Before bed we gave them a bath (well a 2 hour bath but we were trying to keep them up.  And don't worry I drained and filled it again with warm water).

·         - We did the same routine we did in China which was both of them have a book and prayers together.  We had tried doing it separately but that just wasn't working.

·        -  After book and prayers, we dimmed the lights greatly and gave them a granola bar without chocolate. 

·         - After the granola bar we retreated to seperate rockers where they each had a cup of warm milk.  The warm part is important, they are not used to cold drinks at all.

Of course, I have major indigestion which will not go away and have been up since 4.  But I don't even care!