Saturday

 Levi diving for the first time

These posts are running a few days late but I figure if I just keep going, I'll eventually catch up with myself.  So anyway I am doing Saturday even though it is Monday and then if I keep the motivation I can do Sunday tomorrow.  Levi continues to love Shark Bait Kids, more so now that I am letting him breathe off the octopus on my tank.  He spent some of my down time picking up toys and coins off the bottom of the pool and happily swimming along the bottom.  He is getting to be a really good swimmer.  He keeps talking about wanting to play waterpolo, mostly because of me I'm sure, but it is worse now that Ross is playing in USA as well.  I think you can only start playing at about 7 and I don't want to push him into something just because I love it.  At least I'll know the rules of this sport. 

Levi's hair is starting to look very 'Australian'.  I think that it is just that he is spending a lot of time in water and chlorine.  Well, that and he hates getting his hair washed.  I will cut his hair in the next few weeks but at the moment I am just enjoying it. 

Saturday afternoon, I was supposed to go to Mim's Mega Movie Marathon, but sometimes you just have to pull the parent card.  Levi would have been a pain.  He didn't really need a sleep, but he really needed some down time.  We stayed home and watched our own movies.  He played with the Play Doh we had made last weekend and then I got him to bed at a pretty regular time. 

Last night (Sunday night) he almost started to sleep in his own bed.  My mother thinks that I am a terrible parent for letting Levi sleep in my bed.  When he shows some interest in moving beds, I encourage it but I have no desire to push him out of my bed.  There are some nights when I go to bed and just put my hand on his chest and feel him breathe.  When I wake at night I can reassure myself just by reaching over or listening to him peacefully and rhythmically breathing, without any pain or stress.  It is sometimes enough to let me just drift back off to sleep.  On those other, much worse nights, it still helps.  Do I think he will still be there in high school?  No? So regardless of the censure, I will continue to let him sleep where he likes.  Back to his story.  We started reading his stories in his bed and he lay there after I had left for a minute but after a minute or two, he says;

"Mum, This bed isn't comfortable!"

I walked back in and asked him;

"Why?"

Levi replied, 'This space here isn't comfortable" and he pointed to the empty space beside him.

"Is that the space where I am supposed to be?"

"Yep"

Needless to say he slept in my bed and tonight he is too.  When I went to bed last night, I tested to see how long it was before he noticed even fast asleep!  The answer .......... 3 seconds.  He turned over and hugged my arm.  Isn't that the best way on earth to fall asleep?