Emma's Room

It's amazing to me how closely one needs to pay attention to little clues our kids give us. We've had problems with Emma sleeping in her room for years. We've asked her, rearranged furniture, painted, etc. to try to help the problem. Every time she would walk to her room she would hesitate at the door... almost afraid to go in. We would ask but she could never express to us what the problem was. One day instead of walking in behind her as I always have, I walked in front and watched her face. Her head would not move but her eyes looked up to the ceiling fan in the room. I immediately asked her if she would like the ceiling fan to be gone. She smiled and said "yes" with great joy in her voice. Needless to say that in less than 10 minutes my husband was up in the attic disconnecting the ceiling fan and it was gone. From waking up between 5 to 10 times every night, to making one of us be in the room until she would go to sleep, to her not sleeping much at all, she is now sleeping until 2:00 am soundly. She only wakes up once now and I just need to kiss her and tuck her back in bed and she sleeps the rest of the night. The only comical part of this story is when we asked her to show us what type of light she would like, she picked a $699.00 chandelier. Mom is now trying to recreate the chandelier for her. Will post photos once it has been hung.