In a previous entry, I worried how Reese would do on such a long flight. I tried to skew her napping schedule to coincide with the flight. As it turned out, she slept only about an hour on each flight. And even though she grew antsy on the return flight, she did remarkably well being strapped in for more than 5 hours.
Seeing my family was very nice and much-needed for me. What really surprised me was how beneficial it was to Reese.
Her cousins played and danced and swam with her and taught her new words (water, pool, ocean, sand, etc.). They also gave her hugs. Or she gave them hugs. By the end of the week, Reese was approaching strangers with children hoping one of her cousins was in the broad. Reese tried to hold hands with a child, thinking she was her cousin Julia.
The biggest development with Reese during her week on the Big Island was revealed once we returned home. And it was more of a regression than a development.
Reese slept in a crib in our hotel room and is now back to not wanting to stay in her "big girl bed." We are back at square one with the bed training. It does not take us three hours to get her to go to sleep at night like it used to, but that is only because she will not stay in bed to take a nap during the day and is therefore EXTREMELY tired once it gets to be 7 or even 6 at night.
I installed a siderail, hoping it would give her a sense of security (or something) but she squeezes right past it or will just push it over.
I know we will get through this, but I'm just not sure how at this point!
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