sleeping on the floor

Last month after Oscar's four month visit (25th percentile in weight! 96th percentile in height!), we decided to take the plunge and move him into Lucy's room, from here forth to be called "Lucy and Oscar's room" if we can ever remember.

It went pretty well for him, but Lucy suddenly decided she wanted to sleep in the hall between the bedrooms so she could have more "company". She said the little brother wasn't enough, she wanted to be near her "big family". So each night we would put her to bed as usual only to hear her a minute later, dragging her pillow, blanket, Oddie, piggy, and water bottle into the hall and settling down on the floor for the night.

We thought this would just naturally run it's course, but it lasted several days and I was getting tired of stepping over her to get to the bathroom or to get to feed Oscar in the middle of the night. So I asked her what we needed to do to get her back into her bed, and after awhile she said that she liked sleeping by the big fan that was in the hallway. So we moved the fan into her room, and she tried sleeping in the bed that night, but ended up on the floor next to the fan. In her room though, so an improvement.

Now this has been going on for weeks, and her bed is abandoned space in the other corner of the room. I think she'll maybe shift back in come Fall when the nights get colder, but for now she insists that the floor is "really comfy". And I suppose having your head next to a white noise machine isn't such a bad thing when you're sharing a room with a grunty 4-month old.