Monster: mon-ster]–noun:
1. A legendary animal combining features of animal and human form
2. Any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
3. Any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
4. A person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
5. Any animal or thing huge in size.
My little man is seeing monsters in his room and not sleeping through the night– this equates to Mommy not sleeping through the night either.
My son was an incredible baby. He knew when I had to go back to work from maternity leave because the week before, he started sleeping through the night. And even when he didn’t sleep through the night, he slept in long blocks at a time.
Since he started sleeping through the night (back when he was 3 months old), I can count on two hands how many times I’ve had to get up with him (he just turned 4). I’ve been spoiled – I enjoy my sleep (and believe me, those around me enjoy it when I get my sleep). The last few nights have been rough – on me.
I tried rationalizing with Little Man last night that there are no monsters – his mind was just playing tricks on him. He then, in his very adult manner, reminded me that Cookie Monster is a monster so how could there be no monsters?
Little Man is too smart for his own good.
I read him his favorite bedtime book for the second time and tucked him-again. I sang his bedtime song (the one I’ve sung to him since he was born) and tiptoed back to my welcoming bed…not more than 10 minutes later, a quiet little voice says, “Mommy, they’re back”. My mind automatically brings up the movie “Poltergeist” which to this day scares the living daylights out of me.
I know that there is no way (now) that I’m going to fall back to sleep so I made the executive decision to just stay up. The funny thing was today was my first day back to work after a mini-staycation. I knew I’d be swamped…
The coffee is going down quite well today…can you say caffeine buzz?
