What a Night!

Last night 4 (let me repeat that) FOUR of my children got up in the middle of the night! And not because they all woke each other up. They did it all on their own and at different times. First was Naomi around midnight. She came and climbed into bed on my side and was quickly out so we weren't up too long that time. Then around 2 Ellen had a bad dream and tried to climb into bed on top of Naomi. We tried putting her on James' side, but we could quickly tell no one was going to get any sleep that way. We ended up putting both girls on the floor at the foot of our bed. Sometime after 4:30 it was Noah's turn. He normally sleeps all night so when he does wake up I have to go check on him. He's teething and growing so he's been eating like crazy. So I took him out to the living room and was just about done feeding him when up came Stephen. He had a dream that he had a pet fish and it died. Evidently it really bothered him. So he laid down on the couch next to me and went back to sleep. It was now a little after 5 and Noah had no intention of going back to sleep. So I came downstairs and wrote my wordfull post and then got Noah to sleep just after 6. I get everyone up at 6:30 so there really was no point in going back to bed for just a few minutes. Oh well. Hooray for Annie!!! She slept all night!


Since I'm thinking about sleep I thought I'd post this picture of Ellen. I put her down for a nap one day, in her bed. When I came in half an hour later to put away some laundry I found her like this. Sleeping in the stuffed animal box!