A Good Night's Sleep

Garrett has been "sneaking" into our room many nights now. It has pretty much become a pattern. I have to admit - it's cute. When we tuck him in at night, he ask what time we're going to bed and then he thinks about it and says, "oh, okay." It's almost like he's making a plan. Around 4 or 5 am he sneaks in with all of his animals and blankets and crawls onto the back of our bed. We often don't know he's there until he wants under the covers and comes crawling to the top of the bed. He's very snuggly but we just don't sleep well when we're all crammed together in a queen-size bed. The solution: start moving him back. We warned him that we would do this. Apparently our message sunk in because the first night, the light in his bathroom flipped on and stayed on. Greg got up to check on him and he was just lying in the hallway wide awake. "I'm just waitin' for everyone to get up," he said. It was 4 am. The next morning at about 4 am, his bathroom light flipped on again and then off. A bit later I heard a little noise in our room and flipped on the lamp to find him snuggled up with Casey on the floor. So we moved him back again. Now he's happily sleeping all night long in his own bed. And so are we.