Sleeping In Beds With Kids

Brian usually leaves for work somewhere between 4 and 5 in the morning.  Ever since Lauren was born when she would wake up anytime after that I would always put her in bed with me to try and salvage any amount of sleep I had left until my alarm went off.  Now days she will just come in on her own rarely waking me up.  Occasionally she will snuggle up close to me and say "Momma can we cuddle?  Hold me tight!"  Which is so incredibly sweet and makes my heart melt until she falls back asleep and rolls over and smacks me in the face with her arm.

Then we have Colton, "Mr. I like to be wide awake at 4:30 most days" He went through a VERY LONG stage of waking up in the middle of the night and not going back to sleep for hours.  This tired and exhausted momma would bring him to bed with me in hopes that holding him close would lull him back to sleep.  It works most of the time for him but not for me.  See he likes to be touching me/laying on me when he sleeps.  Trying to get comfortable he will bury his head in my neck, then he will lift up and slam it down on my chest, then roll over, then lift up his head and smack it on my chin.  This goes on and on until he finally finds some soft of comfortable spot which usually leaves me bruised and half hanging off the bed. 

So in cases like today, my day off from work, a day that I can sleep in, both of the kids are sprawled across MY bed while I am blogging {with my coffee in hand} because there is no more room left!  I know I am going to miss these days when they are gone, lack of sleep or not!