Since getting to Wichita, Jayden’s sleeping habits have regressed a little, shall we say. He gets out of bed more when we are trying to put him down for both nap and at night, he would love it if Royal would sleep on the floor next to his bed (Royal did this the first night b/c Jayden seemed to be having much anxiety about us not being there in the morning, which we weren’t going anywhere, but it had been 2 weeks of nothing but changes happening before that), and now he’s pretty much just workin’ it. So, we affixed a child proof door knob on the inside of his bedroom door, so at least he can’t get out of his room, we’ve taken all toys and books out (except for horsey, which he’s been attached to since we got here), and we pretty much now just leave him in there. At our old house in Olympia, we ended up doing the same thing with him, and he eventually would just get tired, crawl back in bed, pull his covers up, and go to sleep. Well….it hasn’t worked quite the same way here. We leave him in his room for awhile, then when things get quiet, we peek our heads in to make sure he’s asleep and hasn’t forced himself to poop or something (another annoying nighttime habit he started doing). Royal went in one night and found Jayden asleep laid out across his caterpillar chair, I went in the other night to check on him and could hardly open the door and this would be why…

Then the other night, before Royal and I went to go sit on the porch and watch the sun set over our neighboring wheat field, we walked to his room and found this…

see the little fingers???