Freezing

Last night, Levi was again completely trashed.  He is just getting more and more tired.  I am hoping that he can pull it together for the full week.  There is a part of me that thinks he is just a little too young for these long days at school.  I do like that he is at school but I'm not sure that he needs to be there just yet. He loves it but at this time of the year he is just exhausted and there is no real light at the end of the tunnel for several weeks.  Some of it is my fault.  I am working every Saturday at the moment with the Shark Bait Kids and Levi spends most of that swimming around and generally interacting with the kids.  They love him there and always ask where he is if they haven't seen him yet.  But it does mean that there is little time on the weekend for him to have 'no agenda'. 

Kids these days have so much less freedom.  Admittedly we had way too much, but there is a happy medium.  I know that I am failing him a little in this.  As an only child, he has to either play by himself or play with me and that leaves him either completely on his own or playing adult directed games.  Even if I don't direct the games, there is still an adult there and then the play is different.  It means that he works at it a little no matter what. 

Anyway he is tired.  Last night putting him to bed he ended up crying himself to sleep because he was "freezing to death" and "going to die of the coldness".  Now it's hot here and Levi (and I) both run hot anyway.  He was in PJ Shorts and no shirt.  He wouldn't wear more and he wouldn't put the covers on, all of which added up to me to just being WAY too tired and that he just needed sleep, even if he had to cry to get there quickly.  Sweet boy.