He Did IT!!!!

well kind of....

Andrew came in our bedroom around 7am yesterday morning, the day after turning 5. He was beaming! "Mom! I stayed in my bed all night!" I responded "Yes, I am so proud of you. Great job!"

Andrew did not realize that I had trouble sleeping that night and was awake when I heard his feet making there way across the hard wood floors in our kitchen. He entered our room and made his way around our bed to my side of the bed around 12:45. This is where he would normally plop down on the floor in the sleeping bag and go back to sleep. But this time his sleeping bag wasn't there.

He quietly turned around and went back to his room. Never said a word.

He did this again about an hour later.

I didn't really mind. I thought the important thing was that he realized the sleeping bag wasn't there anymore and that he wasn't supposed to be in our room. That he quietly went back to his room on his own.

At supper last night we talked about it some more. I asked him if he came to our room. He said he didn't. We told him that we would want him to tell us the truth. He responded "oh, ok. I did come to your room." We told him we were glad that he realized he wasn't supposed to be in there and that he went back to his room on his own.

Last night he came into our room and asked me something about launching this rocket we got him for a birthday present. I very sleepily responded and he went back to his bed. I know Chad got up at some point during the night - I think because Carson was crying, not sure if he had to visit Andrew as well or not.

This year and a half long habit of coming to our room every night may take a little time to break. I'm just glad he agreed with putting the sleeping bag away and isn't protesting the idea of heading back to his room alone.