Change in Sleep Patterns

I guess an unflattering picture of me while pregnant can work under the title "Change in Sleep Patterns."  Technically my sleep patterns changed back in the Fall when I first became pregnant and started getting up 3-5 times a night for bathroom runs yet slept like the dead everywhere in between.  Maybe the "Change in Sleep Patterns" is a prediction (guarantee) of what will happen in 2ish months.  Maybe I just stuck this picture here because I did not want to dedicate an entire post to just me and my belly yet wanted to satisfy those who were wanting to know what I looked like.  

 

Anyways, we head to beautiful warm Thailand tomorrow for a 1.5 week trip and I am sure we will be able to manage some family pictures of me in all my pregnant glory to at various beautiful locations to further satisfy those who want to see just how big I am.  Right now I am halfway to what I weighed when I delivered DB.  However, I am almost certain our two upcoming trips to Thailand will help me accomplish a similar weight gain.  I love Thailand.

 

 

I am writing the explanation to these pictures in the form of questions because I posted them in the wrong order. 

 

 

Why you might ask did I put my daughter to bed with a dirty face?

 

Also, you might ask why she is sleeping with a dirty face while in my bed?

 

The two-part question requires a two-part answer:

 

First -  In the picture below you are looking at my bedside table.  In case you cannot figure it out, that is a baby monitor screen, a pack of tissues, various lotions, some lanolin (which I use as chap stick) and my chocolate.  Why you might ask is chocolate on my bedside table?  Well, that day during my nap time I wanted chocolate and I ate some just before going to sleep.  I might even well deserve future cavities to show for it one day, but on that day, I was happy about eating my imported dark chocolate before my nap time and falling blissfully a sleep while still tasting its wonderful flavor.

 

So, back to the pictures of AB with a dirty face.  Basically she ate my imported dark chocolate...sniffle sniffle.  When I asked her about it the next day she said, "mommy I did not eat it, I tasted it."  Ahhh, she is learning early to blur the lines that fool us all into believing things like "size 12 is really the new size 8."



 

Second: Why was AB in my bed?  In preparation of baby #3, we have decided to attempt AB and DB sleeping together in the same bed - AB's bed pulls out to create a king size bed.  Below is a picture from our inaugural evening.  It is our hope that DB and AB can sleep in the same room so we do not have to convert the office to another bedroom.  The office functions as an office, language study room, exercise room, sometimes guest bedroom and future home school room.  Life would be easier if it could stay that way.

 

Because AB does not immediately go to sleep in the evenings and enjoys passing her time reading books, we have let her hang out in our bed with her books while DB goes to sleep.  Eventually we quietly move AB to the bed beside DB...very quietly because if he wakes up, everyone will be awake till at least 11:30 - so we have learned.  

 

 

Don't they look so ready to fall into peaceful slumber?  Believe it or not, the evening of this photo it was a bit of a disaster : )

 

This was hours after we DB fell asleep and we put AB in bed with him.

I am happy to say after about 3 weeks of the kids sleeping together, it has gradually gotten better and better.  They no longer wake each other up at 5:30am and even made it to 7:45 one Saturday morning before tackling each other (second favorite way to wake each other up - the first is to hit the other with a hard toy).