Fall has arrived, in full force. It went from temps in the 80's, down to the 60's in the space of a week. It's been great. I love fall clothes, and Halloween just doesn't feel like Halloween without that nip in the air. Of course, I have memories of my own childhood, going trick or treating with a snowsuit on under my costume. this year, Ann will maybe.. just maybe, wear a light shirt under hers.
We went to the good ol pumpkin patch on Saturday, letting Anna pick out an Anna sized pumpkin, since we already had our big one, and paying 15 bucks for a pumpkin is kinda silly.. SHe had a fantastic time, walking through all the pumpkins and the mums and the gourds.
We went out to the rayle Ramble afterwards, to see Jim and Karan. On our arrival, getting out of the car, Jamie turned to me and said, " Do you hear that?" I replied yes, some guy was singing. It was Jim!! I had no idea he had that incredible and strong of a voice.
The Rable, was just a small outdoor bazaar type thing. It had homeade baking goodies, vrious knicknacks and a couple concessions. There was a kids train going through out, but Anna was playing shy, and didn't want to go on. She did wave every time it went by though!
We've had a few challenging nights lately. She hasn't been sleeping well at all. Shadows are starting to scare her , and we are at our wits end on what to do. She has a nightlight, 4 friends that sleep with her, a special butterfly that keeps the bad dreams away. I'm hoping she will just get over it, and back on a decent sleep schedule, argh. It's hard though.
We are through our terrible 2 pahse for the most part. She gets snotty and defiant when she's very tired, or really worked up, but for the most part she is back to being her sweet fun loving self again.. thank god. I wasn't sure how much more of it I could take! Hopefully Jamie will get some pictures off his camera for me, but here are a few for now!
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We had the same trouble with the shadows a few months ago. It took us a little while to figure it out, and we definitely made some errors while dealing with it. My husband finally figured out that if we could reward her for her good behaviour, she responded really well to that. We started out by telling her to lay quietly by herself for one minute. If she could do that, we would come back and cuddle her for a few minutes. Then we would go out for 5 minutes, then back again... and kept increasing the time until she fell asleep. If she got out of bed before the time was up, we put her back in bed and reminded her to wait until the time we had said. We always cut the time a little short, to set her up to succeed.
After doing that for a couple of nights, we were able to start out with longer periods. Now I can tuck her in and just tell her to lay quietly and I'll check on her in a few minutes. Some nights, if I see that she is having trouble, we go back to rewarding her again, just for the one night... and it really works. The whole process really taught her to trust us because she saw that we would always come back and that we were respecting her fears.
Good luck figuring out what works for you!
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