two ninjas and a princess

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Kellan's transition to Jolon's room

Jan and I have been talking about moving Kellan out of our bed and into Jolon's room, thinking we really should give it a go before the new baby arrives. However, we've all been sleeping so well lately, that I wasn't too keen to change anything. (Most nights I've been taking Kellan to bed and staying with him until he falls asleep, which is usually within 15 minutes. Then he's out solid from 8:30/9:00 until 7:00.) I forget why we finally did it the other night. Maybe we suggested it to him and he didn't object too strongly. Anyway, we put the two little futons down side by side. Kellan went to sleep first at 8:30 and was out by 9:00 when Jan brought Jolon in. The first night he only woke up once and when he came looking for us, I went out and put him back down and he stayed the rest of the night. This week he's been waking up 2 or 3 times a night and one of us will go and put him back to sleep which sometimes takes 5 minutes, sometimes longer, and I have fallen asleep in there on the floor which is not much fun as big as I am. The funny thing is that we've both tried to put him back in our bed in the middle of the night when it's just easier to do that than have to get up and take him back to the tatami room. But no matter what time of night he wakes up, he always says, "tatami." He seems to have no interest in going to back to our bed. I can't believe it. If we can just get him to get better at waking up in there and putting himself back to sleep, we might be fine.