Sleepless nights

Since the time change, Mason has been waking up at 5:30 almost every morning. As you can imagine, this SUCKS! We have tried bringing him in our bed but that only occasionally works. We have tried singing him songs to get him back to sleep, which almost never works. And since he can't open his bedroom door most of the time, we have tried ignoring him hoping he'll just play quietly in his room, which absolutely never works. He just gets louder and louder until someone responds to him - which is usually Momo. Dealing with both kids at that ungodly hour of the morning is not pleasant. In fact, it makes us downright mean and that just makes things worse.

So tonight we're implementing a new plan, one I've read about several times but don't know for sure will work. We've put a digital alarm clock in his room and set the radio to go off at 6:00. I put his blocks in his room so he has them to play with in the morning and tomorrow, if he wants, we can put his train table in there too. Then I explained all about the clock and let him hear how the radio will sound. Then I told him that he has to stay and play in his room until he hears the radio and not before. I repeated it several times and I know he got it because I could hear him mumbling it to himself as he walked to the closet to pick out a book to read. "wait until the radio comes on then I go get mamabeaw and dadabeaw." I'm not going to get my hopes up but please, let this work!

Wolf is having a boys night out tonight with our friend Matthew, so it's just Mason, Momo, my mom and I. We had a "picnic" on the livingroom floor of fish sticks and baked potatoes, and we watched Toy Story 2. Mason sat throught the whole thing, as did Morgan. We had a wonderful time. Bedtime with Mason wasn't easy but it could have, and has been, worse. Momo is a piece of cake. You give him a bath, a little milk, a good burp, a little song and some lovin' and he's out like a light. We can only hope that it stays that way.

I talked to Pop tonight on the phone for a bit, which was wonderful. It's great when one can not only get along with but really like their in-laws. He was in Italy for a few weeks, but usually he takes Mason once a week and they go hang out together. This week they both have colds but hopefully they'll be able to start up again next week.

I have some friends who are going through some heavy stuff right now and I'm keeping them in my thoughts and sending them supportive and loving wishes.

I have to go now so I can put a shutterfly email together for all of those people who don't read this blog but would like to see pictures of the boys. Then I'm off to watch Lost. Yeah, it's a new episode!