I'm with you, Ann. We let our sons stay up as late as they want provided they're in bed with a book. No toys, no getting out of bed. They rarely stay awake longer than a few minutes.

Sleep.....what can I say...never enough of it ;-)

Our latest problem has been DS will literally read HOURS into the night. We've fallen asleep and found him reading at midnight. Right now we are letting him read his first "adult" set of books - the story of the Buddha in graphic novel format.

http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-1-Kapilavas...5740&sr=1-1

It is chock full of mild swearing and violence! We really debated letting him read these on his own, but it's brought up a lot of good discussion and he seems to "get" it. Anyway, we've caught him reading them in the middle of the night! He wants to carry one everywhere.

You must have fared well on the oral surgery, Kriston! Hope your DH is spoiling you. Welcome back!

Yes, I'm feeling much better. Thanks!

The Buddha graphic novels sound great! I'm going to look into the series.

Are you worried about how late he's up? How are you handling it?

Yikes! Your Post made me smile as I thought about last night. DS woke up at 11:30pm and 1:00am. He would call out to me "Mom, I want to show you something!" If that ploy doesn't work he'll try to convince me he needs his diaper changed.

DS is a high energy kid, so he's usually fine after a night or 2 of missing a couple hours of sleep. At that point, we put him in bed REALLY early and threaten to take away his books and/or his computer time. DH for some reason usually wakes up and finds him first if he's up in the middle of the night! So I usually get to miss the whole episode.

He's actually much easier than DD3 in terms of sleeping, even though he's become a bit of a night owl. That one is still driving us crazy.

The Buddha manga series is very good. DH actually bought the series for me a couple years ago. I've done a lot of reading on eastern religion/philosophy. And DH loves good manga! So whether it's really for him or me is a mystery.

I was a religion minor in college (philosophy minor, too, actually), so I love this kind of stuff!

Ann-

I'm glad that my suffering is amusing! Just kidding- I actually laugh about it all the time with my friends. Humor is a great way to deflect pain.

This week has been a tough one. I think dd is getting new molars. I am starting to drop the ball on things. I missed responding to a friend's email in time for something to go into our homeschool group newsletter, and I also forgot to bring ds to his book club meeting. My brain is like a sieve...

DS3 is a relatively good sleeper, and I was spoiled.

DD7mo wakes up at least every 2 hours at night, and she is killing me.

Sigh, I love my sleep.