Colin talks all the time, I really mean all the time… he doesn’t stop, he even talks in his sleep.
During the night I was awoken by his voice…
“Mama… mama?”
I was able to get a sound of recognition out…. “hmmm?”
“Mama… why did you tackle that bear?”
now I was awake… “um.. what?”
“Why did you tackle that bear?”
“Because it was annoying me”
“Oh… OK… thanks mama, it was annoying me too…”
He went right back to snoring… I had to stop myself from waking anyone else by laughing.
I think everyone, adult or child, in our family does this. I love responding and seeing where the conversations lead…
Never was there a truer statement: “Colin talks all the time, I really mean all the time… he doesn’t stop,” I’d say he stops talking when he wants to sing or hum.
Ha ha! I love this little story!
Hi Paxye – this post made me curious — where is your family now on the co-sleeping? Do the boys sleep in one room, and you and Simon in another? Do the boys sometimes or always sleep with you?
My younger son still co-sleeps with me (he’s only 20 months and nurses at night). My husband sleeps in another room because he finds the night-waking too disruptive, but also because my older son is used to having someone nearby at night (my husband and older son sleep in the other bedroom). I’d kind of like to start thinking about moving the younger one into the bedroom with his older brother (mattress on the floor), but he seems awfully little to have no parent at hand at night.
Any thoughts on this? I know so few co-sleeping mamas who have enjoyed the arrangement and sought a smooth (rather than desperate) transition away from it.
On “normal” nights the older boys fall asleep in the living room and we put them in their beds (they all share a room)… We usually lay Khéna on the couch until we go to bed and then either put him in his bed or our bed depending on how he is sleeping… most of the time he is with us though…
Lately, Xavier has been staying in his bed all night but still comes in our bed at times, Colin comes sometime in the night or in the morning and *if* Khéna is in his bed, he usually comes and joins us not too long after we put him down…
Simon has suggested going to sleep in the boys room for me to have more space but I am not too keen on the idea at the moment… but I might take him up on it later in the pregnancy.
For us the important thing is that our bed is always open… there are no rules or expectations so we just go with the flow. 5 in the bed does become crowded, so putting them in their beds (the older 2) at the beginning of the night makes the rest of the night easier…
oh great, now our secret method for plot outline creation is public knowledge. Find someone half unconscious and talk to them. Next time tickle his feet. That gets you romance novels. No it doesn’t, I lied about that part. But it beats spinach.