Monday, July 27, 2009

"To sleep; perchance to dream . . "

For some reason Kayla was waiting to start daycare to gift me with a good night's sleep. She's been sleeping from around 11:30 pm to 5-7 am and now sleeps just a little during the day. All of which is fine with me.


But Alaina has been having trouble sleeping through the night.

Last night I woke up to see the shadowy outline of Alaina standing in front of me holding my contact saline bottle.

"Mommy, my eye hurts."(Last week, Alaina was having a terrible time with her left eye, so I had her lay down and I put some saline in to rinse out the irritant.)So I walked her back to her room and had her lay down so that I could put some drops in her eye.

But before I could rinse out her eye, she rolled over to go back to sleep. Jeff was baffled to find my contact saline in Alaina's room this morning. ; )



I find it a little unsettling to be woken out of a dead sleep by my toddler every other night. Especially since she never says anything to wake me up, she just silently stands there until my mommy senses kick in and I wake up to the sound of her bending over to look me in the eye.

But the big question in my mind is . . .

why doesn't she ever wake up Jeff?

3 comments:

Mimi in the Midwest said...

Because she knows he wouldn't wake up. Maybe she's not really awake.

Mimi in the Midwest said...

Because she knows he wouldn't wake up. Maybe she's not really awake.

Melanie D. said...

My J doesn't even wake to loud children! b went through that phase for a while and M still gets up now and then, but those moments get fewer and farther between. And isn't a good night's sleep just the best?!