Sleeping Charlie

Charlie has reached a stage where he is again falling asleep anywhere. It cracks me up when he is running around with so much energy, and then he’ll just lay down somewhere and crash. Last night we were at an annual progressive dinner that we do with some family friends, and Charlie just looked at me at 8pm and asked if I could sit next to him on the couch. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – the old claymation one – was on the television. He put his Woody toy (from Toy Story) between us, and was sitting upright at first. Then he put his head on my belly, (which I really think he will miss soon.) About five minutes later he was hugging Woody the way that he always hugs one of his toys as he goes to sleep. In a few more minutes he was patting my leg in rhythm. He was completely out and snoring by 8:20. That might not seem super-fast, but I think it was considering this is a boy that is always begging to stay up later and often doesn’t go to sleep when he’s supposed to. He was running around crazily just minutes before... And there were three other little ones that were still up and running as well as six bantering adults. In other words, it was pretty noisy in there! Little Bit was nowhere close to sleep and was actually kicking Charlie in the head pretty much the whole time. Charlie slept until we had to wake him up to go home, and promptly went to sleep when we got home.

Last weekend we had a fun day with Charlie when Andy put up the Christmas lights. We did a whole bunch of things with him that day, I can’t even remember everything. But he was really excited to be outside with Andy for a couple of hours “helping” to put up the lights. It was really cold outside for us – somewhere in the 20’s I think – so he was all bundled up. When his nose finally looked red enough, I had him come in for hot chocolate. This is a rare treat for him and he was really excited. A few hours later we were eating dinner, and as usual, Charlie was eating a lot longer than Andy and I. About 10 minutes after we left the table I turned around to find him head first in his macaroni and cheese asleep! My laugh woke him up pretty quickly, and this one was pretty embarrassing for him!

Charlie also is obviously having some interesting dreams. One time when he woke up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, he looked at me and told me that, “the little robots come from the big robots tummies.” He was practically sleep-walking when he said it, and I just started laughing... Which fully woke him up, and then he couldn’t remember what he was talking about anymore. I love when he does things like this because they give me a glimpse into his imagination, which has been so very active lately. Apparently Charlie has decided that robots also get pregnant... Even though we have talked about how robots are built. :)