Daylight Savings Time Change...The Aftermath!
Well, it happened. I know, it happens every year, bi-annually, and NOTHING can stop it. Sunday morning, early, we all changed our clocks back an hour, like it or not.
As some of you already know, I have been prepping my tiny trio for the past week in anticipation of the time changing by keeping them up longer than usual and altering their schedules in 30 minute increments.
The question is, did my efforts pay off. I still just do not have an answer for you on that one.
What I do know, however, is that that schedule is undaunting and as unchanging as ever. To combat the babies internal clock problem I have had to make a few tiny adjustments.
I haven't changed anything major, really. They still woke up about the same time in the morning. I even had them downstairs and having their blueberry waffles and fruit-loops by 8 a.m. in time to catch "The Backyardigans."
By 9 a.m., though, their internal alarm clocks were going off, signalling that it was time for their 10 o'clock nap.
I couldn't put them down that early and throw off the entire day, so I decided to compromise, put up with a bad case of the fussies for about thirty minutes, and put them down for naps at 9:30.
It wasn't soo late that they were overly irritable and past being able to fall asleep, yet it was early enough to still bank on them being back up in time for regular lunch time (well regular once their internal clocks caught up with the one on the cable box that is!)
Lunch time rolled around and they were up as usual and ready for lunch. Kaiden was the only one not fooled by my tinkering with their schedule. He uses his tummy to tell time, anyways, and he KNEW something was afoot!
I think the worst part of the day came when three o'clock rolled around. You see, we had long since cut afternoon naps at my house so that sleeping through the night would not become a problem.
This meant that each day about 4 p.m. the babies get a tiny bit cranky. For the next several days, 3 p.m. shall be 4 p.m to them and much crankiness shall ensue!
I shall have two full hours of crankiness before I can feed them, signaling to them that bedtime is immanent. Poor little dears!
Right now, we are in that whole 2 hour twilight zone of crankiness. Poor Bregon has felt the weight of cranky edging into his routine, too.
Vivie decided to insist upon helping him practice his piano by forcing him to let her sit in his lap while he plays lest she unleash her banshee wail upon him!
Kaiden showed his cranky side by insisting on becoming a part of the jam session and loudly banging on the xylephone, alternating between the instrument and Kian's head. We can all guess Kian's response to this!
I know, it only will last for a few days if I am lucky. But it seems that these are the longest days of the year for us at my house!
As some of you already know, I have been prepping my tiny trio for the past week in anticipation of the time changing by keeping them up longer than usual and altering their schedules in 30 minute increments.
The question is, did my efforts pay off. I still just do not have an answer for you on that one.
What I do know, however, is that that schedule is undaunting and as unchanging as ever. To combat the babies internal clock problem I have had to make a few tiny adjustments.
I haven't changed anything major, really. They still woke up about the same time in the morning. I even had them downstairs and having their blueberry waffles and fruit-loops by 8 a.m. in time to catch "The Backyardigans."
By 9 a.m., though, their internal alarm clocks were going off, signalling that it was time for their 10 o'clock nap.
I couldn't put them down that early and throw off the entire day, so I decided to compromise, put up with a bad case of the fussies for about thirty minutes, and put them down for naps at 9:30.
It wasn't soo late that they were overly irritable and past being able to fall asleep, yet it was early enough to still bank on them being back up in time for regular lunch time (well regular once their internal clocks caught up with the one on the cable box that is!)
Lunch time rolled around and they were up as usual and ready for lunch. Kaiden was the only one not fooled by my tinkering with their schedule. He uses his tummy to tell time, anyways, and he KNEW something was afoot!
I think the worst part of the day came when three o'clock rolled around. You see, we had long since cut afternoon naps at my house so that sleeping through the night would not become a problem.
This meant that each day about 4 p.m. the babies get a tiny bit cranky. For the next several days, 3 p.m. shall be 4 p.m to them and much crankiness shall ensue!
I shall have two full hours of crankiness before I can feed them, signaling to them that bedtime is immanent. Poor little dears!
Right now, we are in that whole 2 hour twilight zone of crankiness. Poor Bregon has felt the weight of cranky edging into his routine, too.
Vivie decided to insist upon helping him practice his piano by forcing him to let her sit in his lap while he plays lest she unleash her banshee wail upon him!
Kaiden showed his cranky side by insisting on becoming a part of the jam session and loudly banging on the xylephone, alternating between the instrument and Kian's head. We can all guess Kian's response to this!
I know, it only will last for a few days if I am lucky. But it seems that these are the longest days of the year for us at my house!
Labels: baby schedules, daylight savings time, toddlers
posted by Mimi Rankin Webb at 2:51 PM
Mimi is the mother of four: a 12 1/2-year-old boy and 1-year-old triplets (two boys and one girl). She is very happily busy taking care of everyone, whether it's the triplets' multiple doctor appointments, attempting a shopping excursion or volunteering to plan her son's school renaissance festival.
2 Comments:
Yesterday was a little rough with meal time. As you said they tell time by their tummies. Nap wasn't bad at all we let him crawl around on the deck and tear up leaves which he loves to do and that got us about 45 minutes by 7 p.m. he was pretty fussy because he thought it was bedtime. Today was just like normal although he was crashed by 7:30 just could keep him awake any longer. Guess he'll be up at 0630.
it's starting to even out a tiny bit- i am keeping them set to that thirty minutes "earlier" than what the actual clock is saying so that they arent too sad about everything- it was much worse last go-round when they were still bottle fed & smaller!
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