The sweet nothings at night

If anything Riaan has taught me in the past couple of months it’s that sleep is the most important part of your schedule. If you are well slept at night and are taking few tiny naps during the day, you will have the energy, like Riaan to create a ruckus in the house and drag your body the entirety of the place to visually witness one’s own achievement.

While this has been happening on one side, the other 32-year-old baby in the house has been up to something else. Bigshot has become extremely disciplined for my own liking that he sleeps around 9.30 at night and wakes up at 5 in the morning. Now, that is not the issue here. Like I mentioned in my previous post, waking up few times at night makes it very difficult for me to go back to sleep, especially when you are crawling for what feels like a solid 5 minutes from the nursery to your bedroom. The problem is after a lot of turning and tossing, when I finally drift away to sleep, somehow, Bigshot decides to wake me up. This is what happens.

Scenario 1

Bigshot *shaking me*

Me *wakes up SCARED from my sleep*

Me – What happened?

Bigshot – Where is he?

Me – Who? What?

Bigshot – Riaan

Me – Sleeping, like I was.

Bigshot – Sure?

Me – Yeah I mean you can go and see for –

Bigshot *goes right back to sleep*

Scenario 2 

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Me – What is it?

Bigshot – I’m very happy with you.

Me – Oh, I’m glad.

Bigshot – *still smiling*

Me – *slowly puts him back to bed and he’s asleep within seconds*

Scenario 3 

A quick back story to this. Riaan follows you around the house if you tell him exactly this sentence, “come on, let’s go.”

So Bigshot wakes me up.

Bigshot – Come on , let’s go.

Me – *slowly puts him back to bed and he’s asleep within seconds*

I mean I can go on and on but you get the feel. What I feel at the time is pure frustration when I can’t go back to sleep and also the warm fuzzy feeling when you know he is capable of expressing himself while sleep talking. Sometimes I wonder if sleep talking is a problem similar to sleep walking. The only pro to sleep walking is that the person moves away from you. But then again, I can’t be so sure because I need to google it.

There are days when he wakes me up only to ask whether Riaan is asleep because seeing me put him to sleep wasn’t enough or peeking at the baby monitor next to the side table doesn’t do the trick. Also, there are days he will wake up with a sudden jolt and think Riaan has fallen from the bed or assume I have sat on my own baby by rolling me over in the bed. I don’t know how much it’s affecting him but I know for a fact that he goes right back to deep sleep after it.

All jokes aside, this parenting thing has taken a toll on me and my sleep but looks like Bigshot is pretty much affected too. Or is this really about parenting? Because if  my memory serves me well, he has pulled a Vinod even before becoming a parent so many times. Like there was a phase when he constantly scared the bejesus out of me by pointing at different directions of the bedroom which made me assume he is seeing dead people floating around our house at night. He has also made dramatic theatrical performances like the time when he was carrying what I can only assume as water in both the palm of his hands and then throwing it away, only to go back to sleep immediately. I’ve asked him to clear his mind before sleeping but the Scenario 3 you read happened yesterday, so I’m not feeling positive. Yet. I’ll update you as we go along this sleepless journey and hopefully I’ll stop using Vinod as an adjective in the coming future.