Sleeping habits

One of our kids takes after Bruce's sleeping habits and the other takes after me. Can you guess who is a mini-me sleeper? Nathan has my sleeping habits. You are in a deep sleep, and little to nothing wakes you up. You are hardly ever up in the middle of the night, and if you are, you do what you have to do and go straight back to sleep. We both enjoy and need our sleep.

Darren on the other hand, I think he enjoys waking up in the middle of the night. Last night for example, Nathan woke me up because he had to go potty. So I get up with him (our bathroom does not have a night light, and with no windows it is pitch black. I have to turn on a flash light so that he enough light to see so that he can pee in the toilet and not on the floor) and lay back down when we are done. I hardly get comfortable when Darren wakes up. I let him cry for 5-10 minutes to see if he will end up falling back asleep. After a while Bruce tells me that he is not getting up as he just finally fell asleep after throwing up most of the night from his sinus headache. So at approximately 2:15 am I get up with Darren. As soon as I get him up he says he wants something to drink. So I get him a sippy cup of milk and he decides that he needs his juice also. He sits on my lap pretty calm sipping on his juice and milk. He then asked where Nathan was. I told him in bed sleeping. He asks where Dad is, and I tell him in bed sleeping where I am supposed to be. At 3:30 am he is no closer to sleep than he was over an hour ago. I, needless to say, am about ready to drop over so I just put him in bed and shut the door and let him scream for a while. At 3:45 he is still screaming bloody murder so I get him up again. I submit to his demands to turn the TV on, and like his Dad, that must be the magic formula. He was sleeping within 10 minutes. Darren and Bruce will both wake up in the middle of the night because they are thirsty or hungry. They will wake up in the middle of the night and are wide awake, they both fall asleep very easy in front of the TV.

Hopefully number three will be a sleeper like I am because I don't think I can handle being awake for two hours in the middle of the night times two.