2 posts tagged “sleep”

For the past four or five nights the monkey has gone to bed really easily and has been sleeping through the night.  (I hope I'm not jinxing us.)  The mister started something with the monkey that is just so sweet and I think that it's the reason for the calmness at bedtime.  Every night now we're sitting on the couch in the near darkness with the windows open listening to the various evening noises.  Crickets, dogs barking, fire trucks, planes, the wind through the palm trees out back.  And the monkey just calms down and listens and talks and hugs.  It is so sweet.  After about 15 minutes we say, Okay, time for night night.  And he says, Yea, okay.  And then he either walks with us or gets picked up and put in his crib in his room.  And that's it.  Totally calm, totally sweet.  I could just eat him.  And I credit the mister with this new sweet ritual.  Nice job, Da Da.

Not so good.  The mister has been sick and weird since before we went to NYC in August.  Monkey has been fighting snot and ear infections for the last two weeks.  I finally got their sicknesses a week ago.  Now, we're all supposed to be on the mend.  Monkey finished his antibiotics this morning so I took him to the dr to make sure that the infections were cleared up.  You see, I have reason to believe that the antibiotics didn't work. 

Saturday and Sunday nights were horrible in our house.  Monkey was waking up every fifteen minutes screaming.  Just standing up in his bed crying and screaming.  He didn't seem sick or feverish.  He seemed needy but it was unclear why.  And not needy in his usual way.  Usually when he wakes in the night, if I'm the one to get up then I just rock him in the rocking chair in his room for literally 1 or 2 minutes and then put him back in his crib.  These last 2 nights, he didn't even want or need that.  I'd go in there and say, What are you crying about?  It's time for night, night.  Go to sleep.  And he'd lay right back down, stick his thumb in his mouth, and appear to go back to sleep.  This has never been the case before.  I have never before been able to say to him, go back to sleep, and have him do it.  So that was weird.  Especially since he'd wake right back up 15 minutes later and do the same thing all over again.  This means that it wasn't that he wanted me to hold him like usual, he just wanted to know that I would come?  Or was it his ears still bothering him?  Or is he just not feeling good?  Unclear.  At the same time, the mister has been getting up and sleeping with him in the guest room.  When I think that monkey is sleeping well, it's because he's in bed with his dad, kicking and punching him for a couple of hours before dad gets fed up and puts him back in his crib.  Then I get back into the game.  Cycle. 

It is now 8:53.  The mister went to bed at 8, the monkey went to bed at 8:15--after the mister, yes.  It's rough around here these days.  Save yourself, stay away, get some sleep.

P.S.  Update: Turns out that his ears are all cleared up.  But he had a fever Monday afternoon and all evening Monday.  It's Tuesday now and he's home from daycare today (and I'm home from work) and we're going to start another round of antibiotics for his new sinus infection.  But he's acting really happy and vibrant and having a good time.  Thanks for the good vibes!