Here’s what happens when an I-like-my-personal-space-and-my-normal-routine kid is doted upon by a thousand of our kin at a family reunion all weekend. (Note: I didn’t make the four-hour trip, particularly because I don’t think there was anywhere for me to sleep after the family invasion of her hometown. At least that sounded like a good reason to me.)
Hi! I’m so overstimulated that I’ve gone into a spontaneous coma. Nice to meet you!
He jumped on my shoulder when he got home, and then proceeded to fall completely asleep on me. Of course, when we had to wake him up about 30 minutes later to feed him dinner and put him to bed, he wouldn’t go back to sleep and is STILL awake. Normal sleep patterns? I got your normal sleep patterns right here…
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I believe that the J-man gets his sleep issues from Tim. I can sleep pretty much anywhere, unless it’s too hot, but both the J-man and Tim are easily thrown off their game if their routine is missing. Poor man. I ended up getting him back up out of the bed and bringing him downstairs for some toast, since he didn’t eat any dinner. He still didn’t go back to sleep until almost 11.
We had a similar experience at my parents’ house this weekend. It threw off E’s eating more than his sleeping, but still a pain to deal with.