I thought of something!

My apologies for the "not really a post" post yesterday.  You'll be happy that I finally thought of something to tell you.

Apparently we now have what some would call a "family bed."  Not by choice.  Shoot me in the face, did I just admit that to you?  No offense, of course, if that's how you like to sleep.  It's not for me, but it happened...

A couple of weeks ago, Henry just showed up in our room in the middle of the night.  He walked in and very enthusiastically greeted us. "Hiiii!"  Like it was totally normal.  On that particular night, we took him back to his room and laid down with him until he fell asleep.

A couple of nights later, the little stinker found his way back into our room, this time, with his pillow in tow.  Matt and I, at this point, were both totally out of it, so instead of ushering Henry back to his room, we both just told him it was time to go "night, night." When we didn't hear him crying/talking/awake anymore, we just fell back asleep... only to wake up a couple of hours later (around 3 AM) to find him asleep on his pillow on the floor next to our bed.  Not exactly comfortable, seeing as our floors are hard laminate, not carpet.  (By the way, I am still mad at myself for not getting a picture of this.)  So we felt sorry that the little fella had spent two hours asleep on our floor and pulled him up into our bed.  Little did we know that would be the beginning of... family bed!

Now, EVERY NIGHT, Henry wakes up, usually around 1-2am, and comes and crawls in our bed with his pillow.  The problem is, we are too exhausted to deal with it... neither of us really wants to go into Henry's room and lay down with him, so we just let him keep doing it. You'd be surprised how much space a little 36 inch toddler can take up in a king-sized bed.

Anyway, since Sam is still in the bassinet in our room this means we are all sleeping in one room.  Sweet, yes.  But this ain't really my vision for nighttime sleep in our household.  (You're welcome for the ain't.)  Yeah, family bed is not gonna cut it. I like sleep way too much to let this keep happening for long.  One day soon, I will work up the energy to put an end to it.

In case you're wondering... and I know you are... that lack of discipline on my part at nap time yesterday came back to bite me in the rear.  Oh yes, it did.

Here's to sleep.  Goodnight.