Sunny Saturday and pee

The previous several nights Cutie Pie has been scaring me out of my wits! He’s just over 3 years old and seems to be dropping his afternoon nap. Hard as I try he will not stay in his room for quiet time, which is a whole other story, but on days he does not nap or have a quiet time he seems to wake up anywhere between 11:30 and 3am! Of course, he does not go to his daddy’s side of the bed…he comes to my side where my green clock radio has this eerie sort of glowing effect on his face and hair that when startled awake by his sudden crying or even just opening my eyes while rolling over can really take a toll on a mom and make me lose 9 lives (if I had 9!) You’d think by him not getting enough sleep he’d actually need more…why can’t this be true? I am very thankful that Hubby did get up a few times and help him back in bed and that he no longer comes downstairs on his own and turn on all the lights, but nonetheless this leaves us less than awake in the mornings! It’s just been too long since Sweet Pea woke up at night so we’re not used to interrupted sleep. I don’t mean to brag, but he was sleeping 11 hours at 3 months old! (Unlike Cutie Pie who woke up almost every 2 hours to nurse until he was at least 9 months old!)

At any rate, most mornings when we ask Cutie Pie why he was awake at night he normally says “Daddy’s snoring.” Or, in addition to this explanation, “I thought it was a rhinoceros snorting.” (Yes, Daddy knows he snores like this.) The last time he woke up at night he said it was because he knew he had peed in his pull-ups and wanted ‘new pants’. This leaves us wondering why no one ever explained to us that we would be woken up at night, similar to when he was a baby, when he was getting the night-time pottying down. I mean, when you have a little baby everyone seems to think it is perfectly acceptable to offer long, drawn out stories of their experiences giving birth or with their little baby’s colic or what have you without any request for such explanation! I suppose it makes perfect sense that he would wake us up when he has a pee issue, but in this instance it would have been nice to have been told by one of those well-meaning people about it! I know, I’m rambling, but I did mention in my sub-title that this blog would include a ramble or two!

I am very proud of Cutie Pie having been so accomplished at his toilet training, and will be equally proud when he gets the knack of nighttime toileting (probably in about 5 years or so!), but I’m not really looking forward to the lack of sleep that may go with it!