OK...the boys are sleeping *at last* (knock on wood)--the last few days
neither has been napping nor sleeping through the night--I am *so* tired.
I'm also stressed: this time next week I'm supposed to be (with the boys,
hubby and the in-laws) in Florida having flown there and I've been so brain
fried from lack of sleep that I've lost my wallet so now I'm running around
trying to replace/cancel everything but of course none of the temporary
replacements have my picture on them and the only photo id I have left is my
YMCA card and somehow I don't think that's gonna get me on the plane and
there is still a mountain of laundry to do (mostly the babies) before I can
even pack.

A year ago all I had to worry about was nausea and exhaustion I didn't know
what exhaustion was.

Anyhow about the crate. Macula's that is. She sleeps in it at night and I
would like her to use it more during the day as a safe haven/time out place
but I don't know how to train that but right now that's not the problem.
The problem is that one or both of the boys are waking up every morning
between 4:30 and 5am and then hubby and/or I have to get up and then Macula
thinks it's time to get up and she starts whining in her crate. And if one
of us adults has been lucky enough to be able to stay in bed Macula's
whining whining whining means we can't sleep anyway and we really need to.
We try to ignore it but Macula is stubborn and whines goes on and more often
than not just to get some sleep we let her out and she gets on the bed with
us to sleep and is quiet but that's teaching her that she can get what she
wants by whining which is not the case or at least shouldn't be. So how do
we teach her not to whine and if the only way is to ignore it can we let her
get her way until we don't need sleep as much and how much harder will it be
to break her of the habit later?

They say the first skill to go is punctuation my dryer is going off and damn
I think I hear a baby's cry :-(

TIA for any advice assuming anything I just wrote makes any sense damn
there's the other baby gotta go.

Marie
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