sleeping in

If you want to call it that...

Early this past summer Kai decided he was going to become an early riser. We're talking 5-5:15 AM here, folks. We typically get up pretty early, but having to be coherent at that hour is another matter entirely. We tried everything from shorter naps to later bedtimes...nothing changed it, and all we had in the end was a grumpy, over tired child. So, we conceded that he is just an early riser and there's nothing we can do about it (except making his bedtime earlier). One habit that started out of this is him crawling into bed with us. At least this way we could wake up a little before having to help him with anything, or worse yet, pick him up. (Not sure how many of you have tried picking up a 35 lb child right after waking from a deep sleep...not pretty.) He never went to sleep, he'd just lay in our bed, wiggling around until the wiggling turned to poking or tickling and things got so rowdy one of us had to get up with him....

Until Monday...

He crawled into bed with us and fell right back to sleep! And slept for almost another hour!! I never thought I'd call waking up at 6AM sleeping in, but it's fabulous! The past 2 days he's done the same thing. I know it's probably not the best habit to get him into, but we're just so happy for a few extra minutes of sleep (for him and us), which, I am certain he needs.

And we're hoping if going back to sleep in our bed becomes habit, perhaps eventually he'll just fall back to sleep in his bed...or this could just be wishful thinking.