To Sleep ... Or Not To Sleep, originally uploaded by cheryl.
Sleep issues. They come and go in our house. And lately there have been more and more of them.
For as long as we can remember, Sawyer has required less sleep than any child we know. Somewhere around 8 hours on an average day. Sometimes less, hardly more. It's been that way since he was a toddler. And it doesn't matter when you put him to bed - early or late - he always wakes up between 5 and 6 in the morning. Always.
The last few months we've seen a return of the sleepless night, where he is quite simply wide awake after only a few hours sleep. Somewhere around 1 or 2 in the morning, he wakes up and stays up. For hours and hours. Sometimes he reads and scatters his book collection all across his room. Sometimes he dances across the floor in that ever constant need of motion. Sometimes he simply laughs and laughs, usually at something we cannot see or understand. He is simply awake, at a time when the rest of the world is sound asleep (or trying to be).
Last night he was awake from at least 2 to 4, after that I finally fell into my deep sleep and didn't notice if he was awake any more or not. Josh said he got him up shortly after 5, because at that point he was banging on the his door wanting out.
And now he's sound asleep in the sun room floor. He will be for several hours. And then we will start the merry-go-round again. He won't want to go to bed tonight. He will try to wake up in the early morning hours and stay up. And then he will crash at school.
Round and round we go ...