It's 9:40 and Julie has been crying for over an hour about going to sleep ... I've been up a couple of times and so has Steve but she keeps finding new reasons to get out of bed. Tonight is the first time she has actually left her room and she is currently at the top of the stairs which worries me a little but I have to trust that she will eventually calm down and go to sleep. She is currently just crying "mommy" over and over ... I've asked her a couple of times what she needs and one time it was to "tell me something" and another time she asked me to "tuck her in" which is what she is currently crying about. Because I've already been upstairs twice and tucked her in each time I will not go back upstairs, however, it is killing me because all I want is to give her a hug and kiss and put her back in bed. However, both times I did that she started screaming about something else so I can't go back up there. She has been screaming so hard that I don't know how she has a voice left and I'm also amazed that Lily has slept through it all.
It's now 9:43 and she is standing next to me in the living room screaming at me that she wants me to tuck her in ... we'll see how this goes :(
After another 20 minutes Steve and I went to bed which was interesting for me because everywhere I turned Julie was right in front of me crying. I talked to her a couple of times to explain that I wouldn't be tucking her in but just ignored her for the most part. We then got in bed and turned off the lights which caused her to cry even more about how she was afraid of the dark. That happened twice with us turning the lights back on to allow her to see enough to leave our room and go to the stairs before Steve finally got her to go upstairs and go to bed.
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