Good Luck!

Visiting moms with new babies is a great experience. It is great because I love seeing newborn babies with their cute little hands and tiny little feet. They are especially cute when they sleep and do the little wiggle as though they are about to wake up and then.... they settle back down into blissful sleep.

Yes...blissful sleep.

Something I have dreamed about my WHOLE life.

I am still dreaming about it even with older kids. I have decided to begin documenting my night adventures. That sounded a little dirty so let me elaborate before you get too scared or too interested as the case may be. I am referring to the fact that even with my oldest at 13 and my youngest at 8 we rarely get through the night uninterrupted. It is usually Smiley who comes out of his room multiple times a night to pee, or show us his owwies, or tell us about random things like bumps on his head that he discovered (he was born with bumps on his head) and my favorite, that he can't sleep... I don't know why he doesn't understand that I'm not interested in any of these things at 2:30 in the morning. I'm thinking that every time I can't sleep I should go into his room and wake him up to tell him that I can't sleep.

Last night he got up at 11:30 to pee and then he woke me at 2:30. I asked him what the problem was and he said, "after two hours my blanket makes me sad." What????? Not to be outdone by his brother, Giggles also woke up crying later in the night with a nightmare. Brett took that job and went in to comfort him.

I figure that by the time Smiley stops waking me at 11:30 and 2:30 will be about the time Sheriff will be old enough to be out late with friends and girls. So I will still be awake, not getting any sleep. Right?

I met with a friend in our neighborhood this week who had a baby five weeks ago. Her cute little boy sleeps through the night but her two year old doesn't. I didn't have the heart to tell her that it doesn't get any better. Good luck!