It's a funny thing about checklists ... sometimes life happens and that list gets lost in the shuffle.  So yeah - I didn't complete that checklist.  But I did accomplish a lot more than I would have if I hadn't made a list and tried.  For instance, Mikaela's room is almost completely cleaned out and ready to be painted.  She's only three months old tomorrow...  I mean, she's been sleeping in our room in a bassinet and I haven't felt the pressing urge to move her to her own room yet since she's still waking up for a four o'clock feeding.  But the time's a-coming when she'll be sleeping through the night and will be too big for that bassinet.  Oh well.  Today, I'll sit down and re-evaluate my list, make some changes, and get back to work!

Switching over to Peyton - he used to be great about bedtime.  We'd go in, read a couple books, turn on the music, rock for one song, and then he'd get into bed and go to sleep...or talk to himself until he fell asleep.  Lately, not so much.  I can't decide if it's because of Mikaela, or because he had been having health issues.  Whichever it is, he just wants to rock and rock and rock until he falls asleep.  Don't get me wrong, I love rocking with him, but we can't be rocking him to sleep every night - he has to learn to put himself to sleep again.  And when he was little, the first few times we left him to do that he cried for a while and then got over it.  Now, he will cry and scream and just freak out.  On one hand, I feel like he's playing me; but on the other, sometimes the cry isn't like "Oh, I'm crying because I'm mad that it's bedtime..." but "I'm really freaked out here, and no one is helping me!"  *Sigh*  I guess I'm just going to have to harden my heart a little (or buy earplugs) and break him in like we did when he was little.