Who’s sleeping in your bed.

Kids are always in our bed… at least it seems that way to me. We have an elaborate co-sleeping plan going on here… both boys have their own beds in our room, and the baby has his crib here too.

I “thought” that if they had their own beds in our room that they would not need to come into our bed… but I guess I was wrong… again! Some nights they are all in the bed… and it’s a queen size bed… not large enough for 5 bodies in my opinion…

The main offender is the middle child, I think that he has figured out that the only way to get full attention is while the other 2 are asleep… he has become a bit of an insomniac. So one night, he gets off his bed (with his pillow) and runs to my side of the bed (as he usually does), and he saw my eldest son sleeping with me… he totally “freaks” out… full blown tantrum in the middle of the night… EVERYONE wakes up… my husband is trying to get him to come on his side, he is throwing himself on the floor, the baby is crying… My eldest just gets off the bed, goes back in him own bed, and goes back to sleep… like we are disturbing him too much…

Middle child syndrome? He wanted to sleep on the floor… we had to wait for him to tire himself out, “almost” fall asleep on the floor, and then put him back into HIS OWN bed… poor kid! But of course before the morning comes, he will end up back in our bed.

The worst part about them in our bed, even worse than sleeping on the edge of the bed… in one position… usually waking up to “a lot” of body pain and stiffness… The worse part has to be the random smells that emerge from beneath the blanket… usually waking me from sleep… and to whom does it belong??

At least my husband could put the blame on someone else now!