I am pleasantly sleepy. I never used to drink tea but Chamomile Tea is so nice and relaxing. I think I’ll go to bed in a few minutes but for the sake of records, I thought I would blog about Noah’s recent sleeping habits and various other things.

For the past week, since Friday, I’ve been trying to get Noah to lay down and go to sleep by 10:30 PM (or so). This gets him to sleep till about 9:30/10 AM and then he takes a nap during the day. He was taking two naps – a 30 minute and a 2-3 hour nap – but all of a sudden, he’s ditched one and the other can vary from 15 minutes to 3 hours. Getting him to sleep on time has worked six out of eight nights so far and it helps me keep on track because I have to sleep when he does or “else.” (I will admit, sometimes I miss the younger Noah that slept all the time and would sleep whenever I wanted to sleep.)

I think the nap issue may have something to do with all of his mental development though. He’s been a sponge lately…saying random words one or two times (and then dropping them), singing/humming songs with the right tune (ABCs, Rockin’ Robin and Surfin’ Bird), communicating with his hands and gestures and grunts and also comprehending what we’re saying to him a lot better. If you were learning all of that, would you want to sleep? Actually, you might. Most normal people do. Not Noah, though. He’s too afraid he’ll miss something.

I am hoping that giving him a solid schedule will help him in the long run, though. I keep reading that a good sleep schedule when children are young will help them for the rest of their lives. Whether this is true or not, I don’t know, but I do know that I am more positive and energetic when I sleep at roughly the same time every day. I’m also more positive and energetic when I have “mommy time” every day…the time right before I go to bed and Noah is sleeping. ;-) (Oh look, my smiley has a nose! I’m getting old.)

I’m so ridiculously proud of Noah. He’s such a happy, upbeat little kid and he really makes me see the world in such a different light. Now that things are better with Joshua, I have been happy and content myself, which is a really good place to be. The world could end tomorrow and I could say that I was happy with my life.

That’s so nice.