This entire week Kate has woken up at 7am. This doesn’t sound like a problem to most people, but she always woke between 8 and 9, and she doesn’t go to bed until 9pm. So she’s been taking early naps and getting tired early and I’m dragging my ass. I dislike 7am. And don’t talk to me about the 6:30am she pulled yesterday (after I stayed up until 1am – stupid!). I’m torn between putting her to bed earlier (which raises the probability that she’ll keep this new 7am wake time) and trying to keep her up to her normal time in the hopes that she goes back to normal.

Plus last night she woke up at 11pm crying (dogs woke her up while we were watching a movie) and she was running around for 2 hours. Even then when I said, “ENOUGH! Bed!!” she still cried and pushed at me and fought it. Thankfully she did pass out pretty quickly, but this morning she was up again at 7am and is clearly tired. Kid, here’s a hint…. if you’re tired, SLEEP!

It’s new years eve, which is super fun because while we had no intention of staying out until midnight with the child we are going out for dinner at a friend’s and now I am having visions of her melting down while there so we have to come home. Though she could always hit a second wind and run around like a crazy person. I hope she gets a good nap in today.

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One of the little things Kate got for Christmas was a piggy bank. Actually she got two: one ceramic, one plastic. The ceramic one is adorable and matches her room perfectly. The plastic one, however, has become a good friend of hers. She takes him off her toy shelf and says, “Pig!!” I got an idea the other night so I ran off to grab all the coins from my purse and put them in a pile next to Kate and the pig. We then spent a good half an hour feeding coins into piggy. Clearly it’s not something I can just let her play with on her own, it’s a supervised-only activity, but she totally loves it! It keeps her very occupied. :) I told Den to give me all his coins he gets, so hopefully soon we’ll have enough to roll some and deposit them into her savings account. I need to take another trip to the bank (where I worked) anyways, so they can see her.

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Pics from Christmas!