Sleep

Sleep is something I haven't been getting a lot of recently. Things are on the upswing now, tho, thanks to the sleep book I've been reading and special "night-time underwear". I got 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep a couple of nights ago! The next night Lincoln screamed from, oh, 2:15am to about 3:45am. But I didn't feed him, and eventually he did go back to sleep.

Which brings us to last night, or rather, this morning.

Let me preface this with an explanation of how our house is set up. There are 2 bedrooms on the main level and one in the basement. Sammy and Lincoln are on the main floor with Stephen and I, since they are the ones who still wake up at night. Elise & Mason's room is directly below mine.

So last night...Sammy didn't wake up. Lincoln didn't wake up. But, at 4:30am I heard Mason's voice below me. I went down there to shush him--Elise was awake, too. Apparently the kitten had been jumping on their beds and made them wake up, and Mason was telling Elise a story. I told them to go back to sleep. Grr...

(Total aside: last night when I went to turn lights off Mason was reading Elise a bedtime story to help her fall asleep. The title? "Gear Up: Marvelous Machine Projects"--it would have put me to sleep, too!)

At 5:30am I heard Mason again (they never did go back to sleep), and then Lincoln woke up. I thought he would want to nurse, but when I picked him up and sat down he just sat on my lap. Woohoo! So I did what my book told me to do and put him back in bed. He fussed a little while but then settled in to sleep. A bit later, Stephen's alarm went off and woke me up again. He didn't get up.

Lincoln got up about 6:45am, nursed, played, fell down the stairs and went down for his first nap 15 minutes ago (7:45am). It's already been a busy morning!

Here's to sleep!