Sharing A Room...

I love the fact that the girls get along so well and that they actually enjoy one another. The problem comes in preparing for nite-nite time and getting them to understand that we don't climb into the crib to play; we can't stay up tickling for hours past our bedtime; and we definately can't play hide-and-go-seek with the blankets and each other when we are supposed to be sleeping. Here's a little video of what I catch Jenna doing almost every night....

The solution? I haven't really found one yet other than to make sure Jenna goes to sleep first. Sounds simple, right? It would be but usually Julianna is the one who needs to go to sleep first. We used to set up the pack-n-play in the playroom and then just put the girls to sleep separately, but being that a new little one will be needing that in a few short months, and we really don't want to ignore the problem, but deal with it, we decided not to go that route. Instead we usually have to give a couple spankings and keep a close eye out on "michevious giggling" until both are asleep. I have to say though that each night the time it takes gets shorter and shorter. Soon we won't have to say anything at all, but they will know bed time means bed time!