You're Kidding Me, Olive

Last week, we flew into Las Vegas for our Christmas vacation with family. This entailed waking at 4 a.m. (1 a.m. Vegas time, mind you) and departing at 6 a.m. One layover and nine hours later, we arrived. Did I mention that Olive MAYBE took a 45 minute nap that whole time? Needless to say, we were all exhausted and crashed into our beds that night. (Kevin's equilibrium was off and he started teetering around dinnertime). By the next morning, we all felt GREAT and revived (including Olive, I'm sure).

We transferred to St. George the next evening and were blessed again with a full night's rest. We were glad Olive was sleeping so well! But that all changed VERY quickly. Saturday night, it took us FIVE HOURS to get her to bed. It was 1 am by the time we got her to sleep. Ridiculous. And she woke up just about every hour. We tried everything. Nothing worked. You name it, we tried it. It was very irrational. Oh, and to make it even confusing, she has taken two amazing naps in the day. We had to wake her up from them and she was a little resistant about it. Grrrr.

Monday night, repeat. Tuesday night, repeat. We all racked our brains to try and figure out what to do. Every little sound woke her up. SO irritating!!! How do you go from having a child sleeping 10 hours a night to waking up every 1 or 2?!?!?! I finally just gave up and decided it must be because she likes sleeping in her own bed, because after all, who doesn't?

I had a thought occur to me and it must have come from the Holy Ghost, I kid you not. We usually have the ceiling fan running in her room at night while she sleeps. I mentioned this to my mom, and she suggested we create some white noise. So last night, we had the humidifier running. And TA DA--she slept 8 hours. You have got to be kidding me, Olive. Let's just cross our fingers that it really is the remedy and that we will have a repeat tonight. SHEESH!