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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Chocolate Dreams

My son's sleeping has finally become regular over the last few months. This semester was certainly much better than last, with only two weeks of multiple wakings due to a cold, croup, and ear infection. By 8 PM he's in bed, and because he's pretty much given up on napping during the day, he only mumbles, sings, chats for a few seconds before his eyes shut, his breathing slows, and soft snores escape his lips. In the morning, he's up anywhere between 4-6 am, at which time he drowsily pit-pats his way into our room, climbs in bed with us and, if it's our weekend (meaning neither of us have to go to work), he'll keep sleeping until 7-8 am.

This morning was no exception.

His routine before settling himself back to sleep is as follows: Once in bed, he rolls from me to my husband. At each of us, he leans over, smacks a wet kiss on our cheek, and says, "Mommy [or daddy], I love you." We say I love you back, he smiles, sighs, and turns over. Sometimes he'll do that a few times before he goes back to what children dream of.

Occasionally, he'll talk in his sleep. We know he is prone to sleep disturbances, as he's had night terrors pretty badly, but on the smaller, less intrusive scale is the sleep talking.

This morning, after he'd fallen back asleep in our bed, he sighed, smiled, and whispered, "Mmmm, chocolate."

Oh how sweet his chocolate dreams must be!

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