For the first time since last summer, Dekker fell asleep on me. Before last summer, it had been over a year before that. My boy loves to sleep in a bed and nowhere else, really. Maaaybe a car seat. But today, I had the pleasure of having his sweaty head on my chest for about fifteen minutes before I moved him to bed.
Very shortly before he fell asleep, we were playing toys in the basement. Laela was awake alive alert enthusiastic (any camp people out there?) and Dekker was starting to fade. He requested to sit on my lap, and once he was settled, he asked to hold hands. So rarely does he want to just snuggle and hold hands.
We cuddled and watched Laela play for a while, until I felt Dekker twitch. It felt like one of those annoying twitches I sometimes get when I’m just getting to sleep. I suspiciously turned on the camera on my phone and turned the picture around so I could see his face without moving us too much. Sure enough, he was out.
Sooo comfy! I didn’t want to move him, but I wanted him to sleep nice and long. Since this so rarely happens, I could only imagine how tired he was! I jostled him just enough to get him to sit up a bit, and then I picked him up and carried him on my shoulder. As soon as I got up, he was pointing to our chair, asking me to sit back down. I suggested his bed instead, and he relaxed, and quietly whispered “ya.” He tucked in easily.
My biggest challenge was trying to decide whether to put Laela down with him. They always nap together but she seemed pretty wide awake when I left. I didn’t want to ruin the nap Dekker clearly needed. I got back downstairs and Laela was squealing her head off, with tears in her eyes. A BIG tired sign around here. So I brought her up too. She flapped and chatted and rolled around for a while, but eventually they were both silent. They slept together for about two hours, and then Dekker slept for another hour and a half. In that time, I saved a ton of blog posts to my laptop! The nicest way to save them requires Brady’s help, and there just isn’t time, so I’m saving them a considerably less pretty way, but they are being saved anyway. I saved from October 2012 through March 2013. I still have a long way to go, but that is some solid progress that I feel very, very good about.
When Brady got home and Dekker finally got up, we had fries and chicken strips for supper, which was super delicious! Turns out that fresh seasoning salt makes a huge difference. Yum!
Once we get a burp out of Laela here, she’ll be down for the night and I can get my bath! Oh!! It happened already, wow!
On that note… BUBBLES!