{"id":8964,"date":"2013-09-23T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2013-09-24T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:20:46","slug":"sleepy-emma-hyper-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/sleepy-emma-hyper-anna\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Emma, Hyper Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a sleepy-Emma day. \u00a0She took two long naps (2 x 1.5 hours) instead of the usual combo of 3 x 40 minutes, or 1 x 40 minutes plus 1 x 1.5 hours which has been gaining popularity lately.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, I managed to nap with her for both her naps which was good because Finnur and I sort of admitted sleep-training defeat last night. \u00a0Thus, Finnur spent the night downstairs (to recover from his week-long sleep sacrifice) while I minded Emma. [Editorial comment: Finnur doesn&#8217;t view the effort as a failure, but as a partial success since Emma seems out of the habit of feeding at 3am in the night]. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>She actually did ok-ish. \u00a0Woke up around 1 am to drink and then at 5:30 am-ish to drink again (or mostly to fart really). \u00a0No 2 am or 3 am wake-ups which were the ones really killing me. \u00a0So far so good.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Bjarki was up at 06:15, which meant Emma was up at 06:30, and therefore so was I.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. \u00a0Two long naps today = not a bad thing at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8965\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130920_141624-MOTION.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8965\" class=\" wp-image-8965 \" alt=\"Emma being adorable in her car-seat last Friday while Anna was getting her hair cut.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130920_141624-MOTION.gif\" width=\"680\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma being adorable in her car-seat last Friday while Anna was getting her hair cut.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, Anna arrived home from school in a bundle of jitters and nerves and high pitched squeeeeeeels.<\/p>\n<p>Mondays are her &#8216;work&#8217; days, when she does this week&#8217;s homework, and she also babysits Emma while I shuttle Bjarki between aftercare and gym practice. \u00a0For some reason (late bedtime last night?) she was extremely un-Anna-like all day, and boy was my patience wearing thin by the end of the day. \u00a0But she made it through the homework (just barely), although her writing had deteriorated significantly by the end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8966\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130923_162715-MOTION.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8966\" class=\" wp-image-8966 \" alt=\"Anna doing math homework, which involved measuring the length and breadth of some drawn 'finger puppets', and then making her own.  Quite a few eyes were rolled over the making of her own ones.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130923_162715-MOTION.gif\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna doing math homework, which involved measuring the length and breadth of some drawn &#8216;finger puppets&#8217;, and then making her own. Quite a few eyes were rolled over that one.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Due to her a) complaining about her ankle hurting, and b) being obviously out of gas, she got to skip team handball practice today.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, we had mom and my brother Bjarni over for dinner, which is always fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a sleepy-Emma day. \u00a0She took two long naps (2 x 1.5 hours) instead of the usual combo of 3 x 40 minutes, or 1 x 40 minutes plus 1 x 1.5 hours which has been gaining popularity lately. 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