YAWN!!!...

So.......after sacking out completely yesterday afternoon for a nice long nap, Mr. Joel Aiden Jeffrey decided last night that there would be no sleeping for Mommy! He got up shortly before midnight and was ready to be a wild child! He was running and bouncing on his bed, squealing and throwing his toys everywhere. Rob rocked him for a while and we thought he would go back to sleep....WRONG! I ended up going in his room with him and laying on the floor by his mattress. It was a total battle of wills. Guess who won? NOT ME!! He FINALLY fell asleep laying on me at 4:00 in the morning, and I stumbled into bed shortly thereafter. It would have been bad enough, but I had only slept three hours the night before. I thought he would sleep in this morning, but he was wide awake and ready to go at 8:15. I was not. He was in a pretty good mood all day given his lack of sleep. We had lunch with my friend Megan and her son, Owen, who are visiting from Tennessee. Joel fell asleep for about 20 minutes in the van, but other than that there was no nap. I left him home with Rob while I went to the grocery store. When I got him Rob said that they had played outside until almost 9:00 (!) and that Joel had pitched a fit about coming inside. We has able to get him to fall asleep with a bottle....a bad habit but one we are having a very hard time breaking. The transition from crib to regular bed is not going very well based on the sleep patterns here lately. Hopefully he sleeps all night because we are leaving early in the morning for the NICU reunion in Dayton. Hope it's a good, tantrum-free day! More later...