You won't sleep tonight!

Lately I've been remembering a chant from college camping trips to Beaver Island, Maine. It was a quiet little ditty (shouted at the top of one's lungs) and it went something like "You won't sleep tonight!" Repeated over and over, this was yelled at the next tent over or in the general direction of anyone trying to get some sleep before daybreak.

Sadly, this remembrance has not been stirred by the recent visit of my college pals. Instead, I have heard this echoing in my memory as a sort of undercurrent to Josie's wailing as she is laid into the crib. This is because for the last two weeks, on and off, she has decided that she hates the crib. Really, really HATES the crib. She'll conk out and sleep anywhere *but* the crib. The second her head hits the crib mattress she cries as if it is a bed of nails. Then we try to soothe her until she quiets down, gently eeeeeeease her back into the crib and...start the wailing/soothing cycle over again. Eventually, it's like I can almost hear Josie yelling "You won't sleep tonight," mocking my efforts to put her to bed so that I can go to bed.

We hope we can remedy this soon. The pediatrician (who we saw yesterday for her four month visit) says that we should be putting her to bed earlier and be working on a bedtime routine more diligently. We'll see...


Here she is sleeping off a night of crib-hating in our bed the next morning.







But how can you stay mad at a face like this? We'll figure this crib thing out yet.