A little game we like to call.....

NO SLEEP!

Our sweet, sweet son has always been a good sleeper. He's not so much a napper, but nighttime has always been such good sleep for us all - FROM DAY 1!

Fast forward to 2 weekends ago when we went to the State Fair. Hotel sleep is a little tricky. He sleeps in a "big boy" bed, so we try to allow him to do that at hotels. We have to go through the whole process of pretending we are going to sleep so that he will go to sleep and after about 30 minutes, we can turn the TV on, read a book, lay out clothes for the next day......

Well, we did that. And two hours later, every piece of clothing was out of all the suitcases, all his toys were on the floor, a whole roll of toilet paper was unrolled, I could go on..... So finally, at 11:30, Garrett took him down 5 floors to the car and drove him around for an hour. He finally went to sleep.

Ok....two weeks later = tonight. Garrett was out of town working tonight and didn't make it home until after Reese went to sleep. Well, he usually spends about 30 minutes every night talking/playing until he finally tucks himself back in.

Let me point out that when one of us isn't home at bedtime, it is so hard to get him to go down. Garrett and I are both part of the nighttime routine and he knows and expects that.

So, after about 45 minutes, he was still chatting away. By this point, I heard his lawn mower go off, his horse go off and I heard his "Seek and Say" books being read. Next thing I hear is "Mamma?" I look towards his door and he is sliding his CD under the door.

Garrett gets home an hour after I laid him down, and went in to try and get him to go down. By this point, he has started to undress himself. Garrett and I talk about his trip, I play on the internet a bit, read some of my book and I start to hear crying. This is now 2.5 hours after bedtime. We both look at each other and say "Is he hurt?"

We walk in there to see PILES and PILES of clothes on his bed - he went ahead and cleaned out his dresser drawers for us, sweet kid.

I tell Garrett to put him in our bed with me. Immediately he starts in with "Ju Ju". We get him some juice, turn off the lights, cover him up and then the screaming of "NO" starts.

So here we are 3 hours after bedtime and he and Garrett are on another one of those car rides....I'm just wondering how long it will take to knock the kid out!

Oh and, in case you are wondering, he will still be up at 5:00 am. It doesn't matter what time he goes to sleep, 5:00 am is the official wake up call!

And if you are wondering - the kid is wide awake.....not even remotely close to sleepy!

Night night to all.......well all except the Rasors!

******Oh, and PS. I really HATE HATE it when people jump on the UT bandwagon. I mean, how lame? Here are my thoughts on that...if you LOVE LOVE LOVE a school as much as you claim you do, then why didn't you go to school there? Was it because you couldn't get in? Was it because you were scared of the "big" school? Don't like Austin? What? I just don't get it - my dad used to call these people "bandwagoneers"....and let me tell ya, they are everywhere. Really, this could quite possibly be the biggest pet peeve I have! And what's even worse than that? People who blog about it - about how much they adore their Longhorns, about their #1 ranking, about how amazing they are.....AGAIN, IF THEY WERE/ARE SO AMAZING, WHY DIDN'T YOU GO TO SCHOOL THERE??????? These are the same people who whine and mope when they lose. Lordy....