Basically.. my children have it out for me. I care for them and love them 24 hours a day.. I blow their noses, read them stories, make their food, buy them endless juice to drink.. and they are plotting to destroy me in their free time.
There has never been a point in their lives that either child has had a reasonable, consistent bedtime, and that's just the way it's worked out. It's not a huge deal, it's mostly my problem, and I just live through it and move on to the next thing.
However, for the last week, Noah hasn't been interested in going to sleep until 2 or 3am. (Except that one night he went to bed around 11pm- only to wake up a few hours later. And then stayed awake for another 3 hours.) When I let him sleep on the floor he stays asleep usually, but if I move him into his bed he'll wake up after he's done with his "nap." When that happens, I quickly take him into the living room, put him back on the floor, and he is immediately back in dreamland. Instantly falling back asleep and staying that way is the only good part about it- as long as he gets to spend the night there on the floor.
It feels a lot like we've reached a new level of weird.
At the same time, Lily has started waking up for the day between 5:30 and 6am. After she comes to wake me up in the living room (where I sleep on the couch next to Noah sleeping on the floor), she screams at me "wake up mommy it's morning time!" every time I fall back asleep for a few minutes. She often flings back the blinds to show me the daylight outside. I don't care what the sky looks like outside, 5:30am (after going to sleep at 3am) is most certainly not "morning time."
I'd also like to point out that it's only me she does this to.. and never her father. She never feels the need to point out the time of day to him. He must already know. In his deep.deep.sleep.
So, one day last week, when I took her to school, after only getting 2 hours of sleep, I explained to her what was happening. I inquired if she and her brother were trying to kill me. She said "heh heh. No." (That's right, she laughed!)
I don't believe her.
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