A cute, 32-inch, 27-lb, sandy-blonde, gray-eyed, bundle of joy.

Who (again) has started not sleeping in the middle of the night.

I don't wanna sell him on ebay, because he's got the greatest little personality. And really, as far as rent goes...I only want to rent him out at night, for those sorts of people who have to stay awake. Because by day, he's just the very best! But for the past 2 nights, he has been a terror for those of us who need sleep.

On Saturday night (or technically, Sunday morning), he woke up around 1:30 & didn't go back to sleep till somewhere around 5:30...and last night, he woke up at 11:45 & didn't go to sleep till somewhere around 4...maybe later, but 4:00 is when I dozed back off.

With the way he has been eating (literally, he asks to eat something almost every hour of awake-time...and when he wakes up at night, he is asking to eat)...I honestly believe that he's about to be doing some major growing. Which I really cannot afford right now, but a boy's gotta grow, I know!

So when he wakes up at night, we are being as patient as possible. We give him a glass of milk (last night he guzzled it) and have been bringing him to bed with us again. He seems to be regressing in the area of night-wakings. In recent past, if he has woken up, he would go back to sleep on his own. But over the past few nights, if he wakes up, it requires our presence to go back to sleep. And in the past 2 nights, he has fallen asleep with me rocking him...and when I lay him down, he cries like I've broken his heart. And in my hardest of hearts, I don't believe he's "playing" me. I think he is genuinely sad/scared/hurting/whatever.

So we bring him to bed with us, like we did in the beginning. He tosses & turns, or just lays in bed wide awake. If I roll over, and he thinks I am getting out of bed (or if I really do have to get out of bed to go to the bathroom), he cries, "Mama, mama!" until I assure him that I'm there. He does the same for Nathan, which is relatively new. He's always wanted Nathan around, but he seriously cries for him now.

Anyway...here we are. Back at square one with sleeping, and hoping that "this, too, shall pass."

At the rate he's going, he may be awake to ring in the new year with us tonight!