Bad dreams

Caitlyn has given us a lot of stress at bedtime ever since December.  Actually, I guess it started when we took her pacifier away in October but it's been especially tough the last few months.  It would take us over an hour to get her to bed.  It was wearing me down because I had to do it for nap time, bed time, and overnight.  Yes, she would wake up overnight and do the same thing.  I'm happy to say that things have gotten a lot better!  One change was that we gave up her nap.  I hated to do it since Maddie still napped until she was 4 1/2.  I was just so discouraged when I'd try so hard for an hour and then she still wouldn't nap.  Now she is so tired by bedtime that she doesn't put up as much of a battle.

She still wakes up overnight.  When she wakes up she's screaming for me and it sounds so much angrier and louder than any of her screams during the day.  It may be because it's 1 in the morning and everything sounds loud when I just want to sleep.

One night I was up with Caitlyn and started to wonder if she wakes because of bad dreams.  Just as I thought this she starts crying "No, I don't want to go poo poo."  About a minute later she starts shrieking "Mom, pick me up, pick me up"  I hear these words repeatedly throughout the day and always ask her to say it nicely.  A minute after that she cries "No, all done"

So apparently she was having the worst nightmare a 2 year old can have.  First I made her got to the bathroom, then I wouldn't pick her up, and then I made her eat all her food.  What a mean Mommy!