Sleeping, almost 4 years later

I think in this 3rd year of life, Ps finally gotten the hang of the whole sleep thing.  For one, ive noticed that before he goes to sleep i can even stop singing and let it be quiet and hell even stop rocking right before he dozes off and hell turn over, snuggle me close and just shut his eyes. And right before he is snoring i can whisper "i love u night night" and he says it right back in a sleepy stupor with his eyes closed. I figure to talk but still continue on with sleep is pretty big, bc as a younger toddler if i spoke hed realize he was dozing off and start the fight all over again. 

And his terrors have calmed down and turned more into just sleep talking and movement, like last night he sat up and startin digging in my hair behind my neck and talking. And then laid down again. It was too funny, i just let him dig for whatever it was :) 

Sleeping is hard for those with such busy, smart minds  

Dr. butterworth

Im sick yet again with allergies, and i feel pretty sickly so in bed i said "whew i feel hot" and p jumped up, got the thermomenter and came back and took my temp.  and my picture haha. He said " Wow mommy its high pressure " when he read the thermometer. I said "what my temp? Whats the number?" He said...

" your number was a head first and then a butt second".... 96 hahahaha. Love that boy. 

Life is but a dream...

Last night and tonight p has had some interesting dreams! Its no secret hes a sleep talker as well as some hard times here and there with "confusional arrousal" as its called, where he seems awake but is violent and angry and tearful and thrashing. We finally realized after research that its best to let them have it out and not speak or comfort them. That only makes it worse, which we learned the hard way after only making him much angrier when wed try to love on him. They have seemed much less frequent in the last few months but had hit a peak about 3 months ago and it was so sad to watch and even worse to learn that he wasnt doing it mindfully and wed be getting short tempered with him :/ we also cut sugar near bedtime to assure hat wasnt part of it. But i divert! So he is of course still a restless, chatty sleeper and last night woke about 3am asking me to hold him tight and snuggle bc hed had a bad dream. In the am he told me our cat "baby" had gotten poked by the bushes at our front porch and she started to die. But she painted herself grey bc old cats are grey and since she wasnt old but was dying, she needed to be grey. He said"you know how when you die your eyes cange colors well babys were blue then green then black then red and then she died. I patted her head and kissed her so shed know i was there and wasnt leaving her ". Such big dreams for a small baby. He talked about it all day so i know it bothered him. 

Now tonight he told baby while he didnt even think i could hear him," baby dont you ever do that to me in my dream again!" 

Hes asleep now and the dreams continue. P just woke up eyes wide open and was so cute Said in a real cracked sleepy voice "its so muddy. Muddy... How badaa i coo ahh baa iii who am i.. I dreamin of... Im dreaming of..Ahh badda ii.. Who am i dreaming of mommy. Mommy guess what. Baby is on this picture shes drawn on this picture "

Fell asleep flr a minute then said "Just trace the dots mommy just do what the dots say", Pointing with eyes open. 

(He did an ipad game before bed where he traced dots to make words and also drew the letter q). 

He then opened his eyes again and said,

"I draw the letter Q. Look mommy i see shadows" ( pointing at his alphabet shadows on the ceiling).

 This baby is so smart that his mind doesnt even rest at night. One reason i sleep with him and love him tight.