Did I Miss the Memo?

You know, the one that said "3 AM, snack time followed by play time at 5AM (and another snack time)". SERIOUSLY.
I told Mom and Dad, this kid is going to put us in the poorhouse (and the looney bin)! Today, he had Cheerios for breakfast, 4 chicken nuggets and a bowl of mandarin oranges for lunch, shared a banana with Sister (among other snacks), a few peas and 2 pieces of Italian chicken tenders for supper, & an entire banana before bed. You'd think that'd be enough to tide him over until breakfast....right??? Evidently not. He woke up at 3am and decided to eat some more banana. After trying for almost 2 hours to get him back to sleep (both Aaron & I) I was about to scream. He won't lay on my shoulder--keeps sitting up. So I just sit there and look at him. He starts signing "dog". I said "Are you signing dog? Good job!!" Then he signs book (same thing from me). THEN he signs EAT! I'm thinkin' there's no way. But he does it 3 or 4 times. So I stick him in his highchair and he chows down on Cheerios and juice. I'm not kidding you. Then he decides it's time to play. At 5 AM. If you know me very well, you know I don't do early mornings...I don't do regular mornings! This is insane.

Don't you know Mama? It's time to PLAY!!!

What? Doesn't everyone wake up in the middle of the night and have a snack??

Kids say the darndest things!

So Anna was talking to my parents on the webcam tonight. We've been having problems with her staying in bed all night (if it's not one it's the other!). So they were talking about that (staying in bed all night).

Papa: "Well, maybe we should get some chicken wire and put it over your bed so you can't get out."

Anna: "Noooo."

Papa: "Oh, well maybe we could get some glue and put some of that on your jammies...then you would be glued to the bed and couldn't get out."

Anna: "No! Den I wudn't hab any jammies on and I'd be a naked lil' gurl!!!"

Papa: trying to control the laughter "Well, maybe we could tie your long hair to your bed. Then you wouldn't be able to get out."

Anna: "No Papa! Den I wudn't hab any hair or jammies!"

Anna: "Papa, stop tinkin' (thinking) ub (up) stup (stuff)! I'll stay in bed!!!"

There were several other things that she had us crackin' up about, but that was the funniest. She's still up (at midnight, yes)...we fell asleep this afternoon and slept for like 3 1/2 hrs.! So she's just now getting tired again. Yikes. We'll see how tonight goes...anybody have any guesses on if she stays in bed all night??? (I'm going to go with NO!)

Lesson learned the other day...

Don't let Anna get her own strawberries...she'll eat them ALL!!!

I think I already know that lesson about this one...