This is what sleep feels like

We recently realized that putting the girls in the same room at night quickly turned our nights into a disaster. We only have a 2 bedroom house until we move up north in a few months. Haidyn had been sleeping in our room, but we were more than ready to have our room back. So, since she had been sleeping very well at night we made the move and put the girls together. Lexi has never been a great sleeper and is by far not a heavy sleeper. We got a white noise machine, even equipped with a projection on the ceiling of either moons and stars, animals or sea life. Haidyn goes to sleep very easily and is totally uninterested in it, but Lexi liked picking which one she watched each night. However, for some reason Lexi decided she now wanted us to sit in her room with her until she was asleep. If I tried to leave she would yell MAMA!!! Of course I'd have to go running back in because if she woke Haidyn up then that would, well, SUCK. So she got to thinking I was a her beck and call. Then, when I got Lexi to sleep finally.....usually after waking up an hour or so later on her floor wrapped in one or 2 child size blankets with my head on a boppy or a stuffed animal.....every sound Haidyn made we would run into the room and shove the binky in her mouth and try to pat her butt back to sleep. If that didn't work she got swept out of the room and rocked. It got to the point where then she was awake and after 2 hours of fighting with her in the middle of the night we'd end up giving her a middle of the night bottle which she'd already given up a month ago!! Also, at some point Haidyn either woke up Lexi or she woke up on her own and once again screamed "MAMA" and wanted to come in our bed. So we said to ourselves, this is D-U-M-B.
In a few months we will be moving and they will have to deal with a move, a new house and a new schedule and make a big adjustment anyway which is sure to mess with bedtime big time. So since Haidyn sleeps very well on her own(well she did before we screwed her up) and Lexi is the one who wants to be attached to us at all times at night, we decided to move the extra toddler bed we had into our room. What we hoped for was that 1) with a few nights of sleep training and not taking Haidyn out of her crib that she would go back to being our super sleeper and 2)Lexi would go to bed much easier and spend the whole night in her own bed even if it was in our room. I'm happy say that about 2 weeks later we pretty much got all we were hoping for and for the first time in over 2 years we have almost slept through the night each night. Haidyn stirs once or twice a night and occasionally we have to just go pop the binky in her mouth when she can't find it but she mostly puts herself back to sleep. Lexi still wakes and yells mama but I can usually just say "I'm right here Lexi" and she lays back down and goes to sleep. Aaaahhhh sleep is good. Now we are looking forward to planning for baby #3.....are we nuts??? yeah a little I think LOL