Frustrated.

I had planned on blogging tonight about the house and showing some pictures of the inside but it has been a rough night few nights and I'm at a loss as to what to do. 

Mallory has gone backwards with her sleeping this week.  Not that she was ever doing spectacular sleeping in her own bed, but I did feel we were making progress at one time.  That has all changed now.  She is usually in bed around 8:30 and asleep by 9.  She wakes up by 12 calling for me and whining a little.  Up until this week, it wasn't SO bad because I could go in there, let her play with my hair for a minute and she would go right back to sleep within five minutes.  She was doing this 3-4 times a night and Patrick and I would alternate getting up. 

Earlier this week, she woke up more times than usual and we were sick of getting up.  I suggested to Patrick that maybe we should just let her call for us/whine for a while without us going in there to see what would happen.  I was hoping that some miracle would occur and she would go back to sleep on her own.  Well, my miracle didn't happen.  Instead, she got out of bed and came to our room and she has been doing this ever since.  And a lot more often.  She just went to sleep for about 20 minutes and then came in the living room whining for us.  Patrick is now back in her room trying to get her to sleep again and I want to scream.

She is almost two years old.  I feel like we should all be sleeping through the night peacefully, at least most nights.  I might as well have a newborn with the number of times that I get up every single night.  I am at a total loss as to what to do at this point.  We tried to let her cry it out one night...Patrick raised his voice at her to stay in bed and go to sleep.  She bawled saying, "I'm sorry mommy, I'm sorry daddy."  My heart couldn't stand it after one minute of hearing that.  It is coming to a point though, that I feel this could be our only resort as bad as it breaks my heart.