Staying up late

Ewan goes to bed between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Over the last month, his sleeping habits have deteriorated greatly. It wasn't that long ago that we could just drop him in his crib at 9:00, say "goodnight", and we wouldn't hear a noise from him until 8:00 a.m. Now when we put him to bed, he says, "stay, mama stay", or "dada stay" and he wants one of us to sit beside his bed until he falls asleep. If we leave, he throws a royal fit - kicking and screaming and the like - until we come back. Of course, we realize that by actually coming back into the room at his "request" just worsens the situation for future bed-times. However, for our sanity, it's just easier to sit there for 5 or 10 minutes until he falls asleep. One of these days, we'll just bite the bullet and let him scream his lungs out until he falls asleep or passes out.

Heidi goes to bed at about 10:00 p.m. I must admit, I will often stay up until midnight or later just because it is so quiet once those two have gone down for the night. Those couple of hours are the only time in the day that I can sit down and do what I want to do. Usually it entails watching some TV show I recently recorded, reading a magazine, or reading and writing useless blog entries like this one.