Sweet dreams

This is my favorite.  Ever.  I will never, ever, ever, EVER get tired of seeing my boys asleep.  Not even when they are teenagers and I can't get them to get out of bed at noon no matter how hard I try or what I bribe them with.  (Okay, maybe then.  But probably not.)

I'm kind of obsessed with sleep.  Is that a normal parent thing?  Probably...  I remember in college when I would voluntarily only get four hours of sleep a night, sometimes for several nights in a row.  I mean, I had to hang out with friends and then when I got home at midnight there was still that geography exam the next same day for which I hadn't studied at all yet (until I figured out that Geography 101 or whatever it was was actually the easiest class ever and required approximately zero studying).  Bedtime at 2am, followed by class at 8?  No problem.  Stay up all night to write a 15 page paper?  That's why they invented coffee!  But no one tells you that your dependence on the wonders of caffeine will just mock you when you have an infant, because that darling little breastfeeding baby will suck out all of your caffeine and will never ever sleep!  At least mine seem to do that...

Oh, what I wouldn't give to go back and sleep when I had a chance.  I think I'll be tired forever.  But you know, it's one thing for me to realize that on my own, and it's a whole other thing for more experienced parents to hear me mention being tired and inform me that it won't change for a very, very long time.

I am thankful that Liam sleeps much better than Michael did.  But even so, he still only catnaps during the day.  And ever since his mega-cold (which I am thankful was no worse than it was!) he doesn't sleep for more than a couple hours at a time at night.  I've given up checking the clock in order to calculate how long he's slept and how many times he's woken up.  I just check in order to try and hold out against bringing him to bed with us until after 5.  That's failed at least twice in the past week...  And Michael still wakes up during the night at least a couple times a week.  I honestly doubt if I'll ever sleep through the night again.

So, Ashley, is there a point to this?  No, not really.  Just a couple of cute pictures of my boys fast asleep, and a bit of lamenting that they don't do it more often/consistently/together.