The Sweetest Thing

So last night we all went to the mall, when it’s cold and dark the park isn’t a good place, but the mall has one of those great playplaces, with all the soft-ish stuff you can climb on, and Aiden loves it. He needed to get out of the house and run around a bit, he’s been cooped up with me for the most part. I got the sweetest complement I have ever received (so far) last night, and it came from the mouth of my 2 year old. While working our way down to the end with the place area for Aiden we passed by a Victoria’s Secret. In the window there was a gorgeous, scantily clad VS Models barely (almost) everything, with a perfect body. As we walked past, Aiden shouted and insisted that it was a “picture of mommy” he said this at least 3 or 4 times. I found it toally amusing, and so cute! Nice to know someone thinks I look like a VS model. Although I know it’s weird coming from a toddler, I still thought it was pretty darn cute! It makes everything else a little easier to forgive.

So a few weeks ago we decided to give the big boy bed a try, the first night was mostly successful it took several tries and a few threats to get him to stay in bed, but at around 9:30 he finally fell asleep, and didn’t make a peep until just before 7am which I thought was pretty good (he usually sleeps 8-7). The next night it took several tries again, and he fell asleep and at about 11 or 12 I heard the pitter patter of little feet above my head. So I trekked upstairs only to find my 2 year old sitting on the floor in the middle of the kitchen with a package of Blackberries (half eaten). Apparently he needed a midnight snack. So I hauled him off to bed again, and he slept until 3 or so. This was Brandon’s turn, so he put Aiden back to bed and he slept until about 6am. No nobody got much sleep in our house that night. We discussed it and decided to put Aiden back into the crib, until we get into our new house. Well now he scales the crib, climbs right out of it, and has been waking us up in the wee hours of the morning. I hear his little voice outside our door at 4am “Good Morning Mommy.” Not a good morning when you get up that early, trust me! Luckily he usually will go back to sleep, but I thought once they slept through the night they were supposed to STAY sleeping through the night. I read differently this week. Kids apparently have lots of night wakings, but only the lucky ones (or maybe the parents are the lucky ones) are able to get back to sleep on their own.

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