Night Ten

If you could pick one thing a year to pass or fast forward in a child life, this would be it!
I feel like we are getting close but so many different issues keep coming up that I feel are holding us back.
I put Isabella to bed at 8pm last night and did our nightly routine of bum change, massage, nurse and putting her down awake. She cried for 30 seconds and was out.
BUT then she woke up an hour later so I tried the routine again (a lesson learned from the night before) but it didn't work. She was wide awake.
So instead of fighting it, I brought her down and let her play until I went to bed around 10pm. Again, same routine but she didn't fall asleep right away. She would semi cry, then stop, laugh, semi cry and repeat. I'm not sure how long she did this for as I fell asleep knowing she wasn't stressed but still awake. I woke up at 1:30am to hear the same routine. So not sure if she actually ever fell asleep or has just hanging out. I went in, did a quick nurse, put her down and she was out.
She slept until 7am and was up. I tried putting her back down but the other 2 kids were up and she could hear them so there was no point in trying to get her back down, plus I had to get Zachary ready for the bus.
She went back down at 8am and is still sleeping.
I had read on Sleep Baby that some kids need an extra little cat nap in the evening. So I'm thinking, maybe she should go down at 7pm for an hour then I could put her to bed at around 9pm.
That's the plan for tonight but we will see what happens as my plans don't seem to be going accordingly these days.
On a side note, I'm totally tossing the idea around of starting a blog about the things a sleep deprived mom thinks about when you are up for hours at a time trying to get your baby back to bed lol I have some goodies in there :0)