I'm thinking of making this a new blog series, as I seem to have an abundance of stories of Nathan's shenanigans when he's supposed to be sleeping.
He still miraculously stays in his room, so while he might make me crazy with his shouting through the crack at the bottom of his door, I can't complain too much - he never comes out of his room!
So without further ado, some fun anecdotes that I really need to have written down to embarrass him later ;)
Out of Bed
I feel like it all started once he realized that he could get out of his bed. We used to keep a towel placed at the crack in his door to block out any extra light because when he was younger, any light to see anything would distract him and he wouldn't go to sleep. So his first idea was to start pushing the towel away from the door. John was cracking up the first time he saw that little hand coming out and pushing the towel away. John would put it back, and then a moment or two later that little hand would be pushing it away again. We don't keep the towel there anymore...
Stalling Maneuvers
It was a little warm that night, but he
2 minutes later: "Dadaaaaaaa Wee-oo Wee-oo Jammas!"
It takes another 10 minutes of this before John goes in and tells him the same thing. We get about 5 minutes of silence, then he comes back and asks some more.
We ignore him. He finally goes to bed.
Just Like Mommy
I love having a video monitor, I get to see the funniest and the sweetest things. Through the video monitor the other night I watched him pretend his stuffed puppy is his baby. He lifted up his shirt to feed his puppy, then put the puppy on his lap and burped it by patting it on the back (rather vigorously) and then held the puppy in front of him and smiled and talked to it. Then he tried to read a story to it (in the dark). It was pretty much the sweetest thing ever.
Just Like Mommy...sort of...
I struggled with my milk supply when I was nursing Nathan, but I have excess milk this time around and it has been wonderful. As a result, I pump fairly often to relieve pressure and build up a freezer supply so I can get out of the house. ;) Nathan finds this fascinating. A week or so ago I was getting Nathan ready for bed and he was playing with this plastic tubing that was a part of an air pump for our exercise ball. As I'm getting him into his pajamas, he is holding the tubing to his stomach and saying "milk!". I'm only half-paying attention, so I think he's asking me for milk to drink so I say "no, no more milk for tonight, it's bedtime". He keeps saying "milk!". It takes me several minutes to realize he's pretending to pump for milk and I say, "Oh! Yes! That's just like when Mommy gets milk for baby Spencer!"
Then he puts one end of the tubing on his knee, saying "knee!"
"Oh, are you getting milk from your knee now?"
"No, juice!"
Oh. Of course. ;)
Book Worm
Recently he has been having a harder time winding down for his naps in the afternoon. One day he messed around for almost the whole 2 hours he was in there. He was jumping off his bed, opening his curtains, playing with his kitchen toys, etc. He finally fell asleep when he went and got a book and started looking at it in bed. He promptly fell asleep with the book on his chest. The next day I was Sneaky Mommy and was all enthusiastic about having books in his bed. I even opened his curtain a little so he had some light to see his books. He was asleep 20mins later. Score 1 for Sneaky Mommy. So now it's a staple for naptime and helps him calm down and stay in his bed to fall asleep.
But the other night he wanted to read books at bedtime. But it's much too dark, even if I were to let him, so I found him in search of some light to read by:
Yes, It's Dark at Night
Just this past week I was up every 2 1/2ish hours, with both Nathan and Spencer. Spencer woke up to eat around 1 and then at 3:30am I hear Nathan shouting at his door that all the lights are off. I run over to his room (I don't want him to wake Spencer up!!) and tuck him back into bed. He tells me again that the lights are off. "Yes, it's the middle of the night. Go back to sleep." At least he didn't get up again until morning, but I was awake at 5 for another feeding for Spencer. If Nathan hadn't gotten up that would have been a pretty good night by Spencer's standards. The injustice. ;)
