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Sleeping and Not-So Sleeping

Both boys are pretty good sleepers. Maceo's peccadillo is that he will call us up to his room after going to bed with issues like he is sweaty or his nose is snuffy. We've taken care of that by giving him a blue ribbon good for one nighttime visit. Most of the time, that suffices for him. Cassius has been a great sleeper. He goes right in to his bed, hardly ever with even a peep, seems to fall asleep within minutes, and sleeps all the night. Until the end of December. Then, he began awakening at around 5:15, calling and yelling and crying. We'd try to wait him out, but sometimes, to keep Maceo asleep, one of us would get up with him. This sleep change seems to have coincided with a lot more talking from him and recently, he's been sleeping until he's allowed to wake up (Thank God). However, last night, he awoke at about 11:30, which is very unusual for him, crying with what sounded like fear, which is also unusual. I went to him and tried to snuggle him back to sleep, but he was super tense, and he was super awake. He asked to go to our room, to go downstairs, to read a book. I kept trying to snuggle him back asleep, but after seeing that wasn't going to work, I explained that I was going to sing him a song, and then I would put him back in his crib. He wasn't happy about it, and he started to cry as I put him down. He sat up, and I asked him to lie down so I could put his "woobie" (blanket) over him. He wouldn't, so I left. By the time I got to bed, he was crying angrily, and then he started shouting, "Put my woobie on me!" over and over again. I went in, put his woobie on him, and he was instantly silent and stayed that way the rest of the night.

Frozen

Maceo and, by extension now, Cassius, really like the animated movie "Frozen." What this means for Kate and me is that we listen to the soundtrack a lot in the car. Like every trip in the car with the kids. Cassius will ask, "Is this 'Fwozen'?" at the first sounds of any of the songs. And Maceo can be easily talked into singing duets around the house. In fact, the other day, when the songs were playing on our internet radio, Maceo pulled a stool over to the counter and climbed up to lip sync along with the songs, holding a pencil in front of him like a microphone. And during a playdate over Christmas break, he and Cassius and their buddies sat enraptured by the movie, although some were a little worried about the ice monster once it showed up.

When there are no more groceries to load onto the belt....

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