Scary nights

Leo in his big boy bed

So Monday night we got my monkey a new "big boy" bed. And he was so excited! And we put the baby gate in the hallway so he couldn't escape. First night went off without a hitch. He didn't get up all night long. He slept in his bed and he was so proud of himself. Second night...not so well. I put him to bed about 8:45 and I went to sleep around 10. What felt like hours later I heard Leo screaming his hed off. The hubby went and got him (I don't know if he had still been awake or if the screaming woke him up). It turned out it was only midnight but felt much later! Anyways...I laid in bed for a little bit and he just kept crying. I finally went into his room to see what was up. I still don't know what was wrong with him but even after we brought him into our room (which normally calms him down quickly) he continued to cry. I even fell back asleep and woke up not much later to him laying down with his eyes closed crying. I don't know if he was having like a night terror or what, but he was pretty much asleep. I tried to rub his back and he went all exorcist on me telling me to stop. So weird. So we will try again with the big boy bed tonight and hopefully it goes much better. If anyone has suggestions or ideas as to what might have been causing that, let me know, cause I was more than just a little freaked out!

My little fireworks junky

So this weeks spin is supposed to be about kids. Well, since most of my blogs are about my little monster anyways I figured I would just write about what he's been obsessed with lately. And that would be....drumroll please...FIREWORKS!

We see the 50 thousand fireworks tents lined up and down the streets and he sees the blue ones and the red ones and the green ones and they all have FIREWORKS inside of them. He is crazy about them. And at night when we are sitting in doing something very classy (like watching tv) and he hears the fireworks he lowers his voice to a whisper and says in awe "fireworks!" And then finally on Monday I told him that if he was good that mommy and daddy would take him to the big tents to get some fireworks for him and he just looked at me with the biggest smile on his face and said "What!!!!!" Too cute.

I guess my hope is that he is not terrified once we get down to the nitty gritty of the fireworks. The loud pops, the screeching, annoying ones. I hope he love, love loves them as much as he is excited to see everything related to them. So I hope everyone elses 4th of July is just as fabulous as I hope ours will be! ANd if you want to see other peoples spins about kids check them out at Sprites Keeper www.spriteskeeper.com/my_weblog/2009/07/spin-cycle-playing-devils-advokid.html

So, I'm a nerd

I have been reading like a fiend. I have read 5 books in 9 days. And it has been pretty relaxing! I read the first two books in the Kay Hooper trilogy about pyschic "cops". And then I read a trilogy that I had read before by Nora Roberts. Those were about women having to come together to find keys to unlock the souls of demigoddesses. Again, great books (I would hope so since this would be my 3rd time to read them!). And finally, I am keeping with the theme and started to read (again) the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice. It's of an erotic nature and I've found that it might not be the best to read them on my lunch break because, well you know! :) So, after probably a good 6 months without reading a book I have read a bunch in a short amount of time. If anyone has any suggestions of good books to read let me know! I think I would like to re-read the Harry Potter books, but if someone has a better suggestion then I will take that!