Thumper

Elizabeth is usually in bed between 6:30 and 7 nowadays and we wake her around 6am. She may not cry at night anymore, but I don't think she sleeps the 11 hours straight. Why, you ask? Because she thumps. When I put her to bed at night, she is usually awake, but definitely tired. She has to have her blanket (which she subsequently pulls over her head and falls asleep this way) and then she lifts her legs up high and slams them down on the crib. And she does this over, and over, and over until she falls asleep.

I wake up in the middle of the night for various reasons anymore, the dog in the kitchen, the neighbor getting home from work at 2am, or thumping. I swear that girl thumped from 3-5am this morning. Again, no peeps, no talking, no moaning, groaning or crying, just thumps.

She isn't crying out which is the best part, and has learned how to entertain herself without needing a pacifier (which she pretty much gave up about a month ago ... doesn't care for it anymore), a bottle or mommy. But I can only take so much thumping as it causes me to have to wake up more fully in the middle of the night to actually figure out what the noise is.

Maybe I should just close her door completely before going to bed and hope that helps stifle the noise.

I just think it's funny that I have a little bunny rabbit in the room across the hall, entertaining herself by thumping her legs in bed! I love that girl, even if she did keep me awake for much of the early morning before my alarm went off. :)