It happens, eventually, that toddlers will sleep through the night. Unfortunately, we're so accustomed to waking up several times a night, we don't realize that's it's not the baby that woke us up, but some other noise. It's been several weeks (not including the croup filled weekend) that Aisling's been slumbering peacefully at night, and I never took notice of it until recently. I was still getting up several times - out of habit, I think, but it never registered that Aisling was still asleep.
Until last night, that is. There was as bit of commotion at 3:30am as Daddy discovered someone had wet the bed. This resulted in changing the wet child, stripping the wet sheets, re-locating previously sleeping children to mommy and daddy's big bed, and tucking everyone in again. In the midst of all this, Aisling woke up. She saw her siblings next to her, and declared it to be party time. She laughed in glee, clapped her hands, poked Devlin once or twice to make sure he was on board with the idea and then raised her arms and started dancing. When she saw sleepy and grumpy Daddy, she greeted him with a huge smile too.
It took a few minutes to convince her that it was still sleep time, but miraculously, she fell asleep quickly and with little protest. There were a couple of more nudges to big brother Devlin before snuggling into next to Mommy (and a few exploratory pokes at Mommy's face too) and I could soon hear the gentle snoring coming from all three.
Before I went back to sleep for a few more hours, I took notice of one fact. Children are incredibly beautiful when they're sleeping...probably because they're still and quiet!
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