It’s 10:36. Amy is asleep downstairs and so is Jake.
On Saturday night Jake was awake for what seemed most of the night. He just didn’t want to go to sleep. We both took our turns going in to calm him every time he woke, with the aim of trying to get him to relax enough to go back to sleep.
His cough had woken him and it was a real hack. He kept saying that he couldn’t close his eyes and that he couldn’t have a dream. We explained that he cannot dream while he was awake! Later on in the night he called again saying that Dinosaurs were flying around his room in his dream. And so it went on. In the end Amy gave him some books and turned on his bed side light so that he could have a look through them. This seemed to work until an hour later I heard Jake calling me. In the end I went in. He was lying down with the books next to him saying that “the books are in the way, can you move them?”. And so it went on…
This morning he woke after a better nights sleep but with very gummy and puffy eyes. Bless him, he has really been through it since starting school. He literally has had some form of cough/cold for the whole period. So now he has conjunctivitus to add to his list of ailments.
So to get back to my opener Jake woke at around 9pm with very sore eyes. He was upset and crying so we brought him into our room to watch the final of “Move like Michael Jackson”. Happily within 20 minutes he went back to sleep. However he has sprawled himself over my side of the bed. I don’t want to wake him by moving him as he must be exhausted.
So I have been pottering. I’ve prepared a cold Chamomile compress for him if he wakes again tonight and have written a blog entry. I think I’ll head downstairs and get some shut-eye. Night night.