Late nights or early mornings?

I know I have mentioned before that Darren has sleeping habits like Bruce. At least when Bruce wakes up in the middle of the night, he doesn't wake me up, so I don't mind his insomnia. Bruce will go out in the living room to watch TV, or turn it on in the bedroom and I hardly ever notice. If only Darren was big enough to turn on the TV and watch it silently, or get his own snacks, my world would be much better. Considering how daring Darren is and how much he likes to climb, I am amazed that he has never attempted to climb out of his crib. I know that Nathan was climbing out somewhere between 15 & 18 months.

Darren played outside all afternoon on Sunday, and he only had a 45 minute to an hour nap, so I assumed that he would sleep very well. Unfortunately, about 5:00 am he wakes up and decides that he is hungry. This wasn't too hard on me since I would have been getting up in about a half hour, but I can use all the beauty sleep I can get. He ate and then I laid him in our bed while I jumped in the shower. He fell asleep about six and I put him back in his crib for another hour or so.

Then on Monday night, Tuesday morning he decides that he wants to eat at 3:00 am. I gave him something to eat and then tried to get him back to sleep. He must have decided that he had enough sleep for the night as I could not get him to go back to sleep for anything. Finally at 5:00 am I threw him on our bed and told him that he wasn't allowed to move a muscle. I managed to fall asleep for a half hour, and when my alarm went off, Darren was sleeping. Back into his crib he went. That made for a long day at work on Tuesday.