Every night as I put Ian to bed, he begs me, "Mommy! Sleep with me!" I lay down with him, just until I think he's drowsy, then whisper, "'Night-night, Baby. I love you. See you in the morning." He murmurs a good-night and I leave the room. Some nights, though, he isn't ready to simmer down and as I lay there he wiggles, talks, jumps up, etc. On those nights I get up and say, "I'll check on you again later, when you've calmed down." Sometimes he calls me back in and tells me he's ready to be calm; other times it gets quiet in his room and I know he's fallen asleep.That's what happened last night. There wasn't a sound from his room, and I drifted off to sleep while reading in bed. About three hours after I left his room, he started crying. I immediately got up and went to him.
But when I opened the door, he wasn't there. His bed was empty! He was crying from under his bed! I had to move a stuffed animal to get to him, and I found him curled up on a child's keyboard in need of batteries that was shoved under the bed and forgotten about. I felt guilt mixing with my giggles as I realized that he had crawled under there, waiting for me to come back to check on him, then he fell asleep! Poor kid slept under his bed for three hours!
When I asked him this morning, he remembers hiding under the bed, but not falling asleep there or crying. I'm glad; that leaves me to laugh about last night, while promising myself that I won't wait three hours next time before checking on him!
~Reese
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Oh, Ian, he's so adorable! I've done that before, and I always feel so terrible!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute story! I've gone in to check on my boys before to find one under the bed...or asleep on the closet floor! Not to play a joke on me,....but some unexplained autism thing....weird!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! My little boy says the same thing to me every night when I tuck him in. Snuggling up for just a few seconds usually does the trick and he's off to dreamland.
ReplyDeleteA couple of times though when I've gone to check on him before going to bed myself, I've found him with his door partially open asleep in his doorway--as if he wanted to come out, but then it just took too much energy and he called it quits right there in the floor. It's the funniest thing!
My oldest used to sleepwalk with his pillow and settle down just outside his bedroom door. We'd almost trip over him if we left our room in the night!
ReplyDelete~Reese