scary dinosaur

the last several months, we've gone in waves of letting our little Butterfly sleep in our bed versus weeks where she does really well sleeping in her own room all night. Lately, she sneaks into our bed every night but being half asleep, we pull her in and let her stay (I'm pretty sure daddy does this in his sleep, I wake up in the morning and am surprised to find her there).

And suddenly it's gotten worse as we entered the age of nightmares. Last night was especially bad.

9:00 - put little girl to bed. potty, pjs, story, prayers and she's out without a fight
9:15 - we hear the door open and shut and she sobs as she starts coming up the stairs ("scary dinosaur!")
9:25 - little girl in calm and in bed again
9:50 - door opens, baby girl sobs and comes in search of daddy
10:20 - daddy and little girl cuddle in her room until she's asleep
1:15 - more sobbing, mommy takes her back to her room and cuddles in the recliner...falls asleep
3:00 - mommy wakes back up, puts sleeping girl in bed, returns to her own room
3:15 - little girl sobbing again, daddy to the rescue, mommy falls asleep and doesn't know when daddy came back
8:00 - mommy wakes up in her own bed, next to sleeping little girl (who has a death grip on a fistful of my hair, her comfort item). daddy has already left for work. :(

its okay kid. I don't like dinosaurs either.


update:
8:45 - blog posted
8:50 - little girl wakes up, realizes she's alone and panics. calls out and wakes up baby. the day begins.