danieljohnson

When Daniel's brother Nicholas was in Daniel's age, he had a period when he wouldn't sleep the whole night in his own room. So he slept in our bed for a while. We had a rule that he would always start the night in his own bed, and then if he woke up during the night, he could come to our bed. Like most kids at that age, he was extremely active in his sleep. He would kick and hit and twist and turn. And we were painfully aware of this and didn't get that much sleep. We would wake up several times a night with Nicholas sleeping with his head on Marcs tummy and feet on my face. Or the other way around. So we came up with an idea of having an extra matress on the floor in our room. Whenever he wanted to sleep in our room, he could, just not in our bed. A win-win situation; he got to sleep in our room and we got to sleep.

Daniel got the same way a little before Isabella was born. He couldn't understand why he had to sleep all by himself, when we got to sleep in the same bed and when Isabella was born, she got to have her bed next to ours. So we took out the matress again. And he would come to our room most nights and sleep on the matress.

Last weekend we could put the matress into storage. Daniel hasn't been to our room in a long time. Although this is a good thing, he feels more secure in his own room and is more self assured, I'm a little sad. He is growing up too fast. All too sudden there will be a day when he doesn't want to hold my hand anymore or give me a hug just out of the blue. Right now when I hear him playing in the living room making up conversations between Batman and Obi-wan, I know that it's not happening any time soon. And I'm happy about it. Who has the most growing pains Daniel or me?