15:30 Challenge, Day 3

Here is a picture of the boys at the park with their cousin, Ellie. It's hard to see the details of what they are wearing. Jett is wearing a t-shirt that he painted himself, and Kai is wearing a t-shirt from Threadless. The picture of me is totally blah, and I took it at the end of the day, so you get no picture of my tired* face, but a lovely view of our bathroom sink. Like I said, the hardest thing about this challenge is posting a picture of myself everyday.

Why am I so tired. you ask? Well, the long story is.....prior to the Hall Family Vacation Jett was sleeping on the floor of our room every night. We got in to that habit because it was just so easy to get him to bed if we let him sleep in our room. He fell asleep within minutes of laying down in our room every night, with all of the lights on, even if we were folding laundry, or working on the computer, or cleaning the closet. He just fell asleep, it was so easy.

But part of us really wanted him to sleep in his own bed.

At one point Charlie started talking to Jett about one day having bunk beds. Jett started telling Aunt Heather about the bunk beds he would have one day, and she mentioned that he had to sleep in his own bed first, if he wanted to get bunk beds. And that was all it took. After vacation he started sleeping in his own bed. (Just another example of the influence my sister Heather wields around).

The only problem is that every night between 3 and 4 a.m., he wakes up and comes in to our room and asks he to rub his back. So I follow him back to his room and rub his back for a minute and he falls back asleep. Kind of like a newborn. Sometimes it takes me half an hour or an hour to fall back asleep myself. Then he's back at my side between 6:00 and 7:00 in the morning, whining, "I want to plaaaaaayyyy with you. I want to plaaaaaayyyyy with you." Mornings are difficult because if I'm really tired I turn on the TV and then we have to battle over that later. And if I agree to play with him I'm more sleepy than attentive and kind of crabby, so he gets crabby. I'm not sure how to get him out of the back-rubbing habit, because I don't want to upset him in the middle of the night. He's always kind of out of sorts, plus he shares a room with Kai, and I don't want to wake Kai up.

And that's the story of why I'm so tired and therefore unwilling to put my face on the internet tonight.

I will write about more interesting things soon, promise.

Good night!