Sleeping Mistake

Joel doesn’t sleep well.  He generally wakes up once a night and screams until I go and get him.  He takes awhile to fall asleep too, so he ends up with not nearly enough sleep.  We have several rules we follow to help him out (no TV after 7 pm, no chocolate after lunch, etc), but we bend them from time to time.  On the way back from Medieval times he fell asleep.  It was around 7pm, so when we got home at 7:30pm Brad carried him to bed and he stayed asleep.  It was great!  We were so proud of ourselves for the successful carseat to bed transfer.

Then he woke up at 3:30am and was wide awake and ready to party.  Suddenly the early bedtime seemed like a stupid idea.  He was really cute while he was in our bed.  He kept giggling, and hugging me and saying “I under the covers.  I under the pillow.” And just being a goof!  After 1.5-2 hours he was back asleep.  Not the great nights sleep I wanted him to have before school started but such is life!