Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bedtime tales

First it was just the two of us. Snuggling deep into the quilt and in the middle of the bed with a looot of space left over on both sides of the bed. Then kuttan arrived. Happy baby that he was, kuttan peacably slept for about a year in his crib after which he would try to get out of his crib in the middle of the night.

It became too risky to let him continue in his crib after that and the queen size bed became too small for the 3 of us. So we moved the mattress to the floor and the cot to the guest bedroom. Made a cozy little mattress in the corner for kuttan with quilts and assorted sheets and thus it continued till the sight of dirty unmade beds and sheets on the floor got to us and we bought a HUGE king sized bed. The three of us settled down comfortably and there was actually place to spare.

Out came the princess. Considering she is only 7 months old she has a few more months of crib life left in her, if she were anything like her brother. But the little firebrand that she is, she refuses to sleep in the crib and has deigned to move in with bag and baggage into our cot. So now we sleep breadthwise on the cot instead of lengthwise. Kuttan on the far end, alongside the headboard, princess next to him, me squashed in between and the husband on the other end.

Making sure kuttan does not crush her, while at the same time not crushing her myself has led to serious sleep deprivation. Four crammed bodies into a small space does not make for a restive sleep. The husband cribs and threatens to evict both the kids out of the room every night.

And yet, it does have its moments. Turning around in the dead of the night to find a small warm bundle sighing against me. A normally physically VERY undemonstrative kuttan waking up in the middle of the night to cuddle princess and go right back to sleep. A rushed school morning when we are all trying to SHOUT kuttan awake and the little princess wakes up and climbs softly over him waking him up with a smile. Four of us cuddling together on weekends under a blanket. A bigger bed? A separate room for the kids? Nah...I think I will live like this a little longer....

7 comments:

Sumana said...

That surely gives immense pleasure. I can relate to yours. The younger ones decide things much sooner.

Swati said...

ohh so cute ..i know how much pleasure that snuggling together with the family brings :)

Monika said...

awww that was such a lovely post

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Mama - Mia said...

:)

beautiful post BM! :)

even we have moved to mattress on floor situation. but they get picked up everyday, so not terribly messy!!

Princess sounds like a total fun kid! :)

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Divs said...

Awww...lovely post BM! I love the fact that you do not succumb to peer pressure in moving the older kid to an independent room and what not. It is nice not to feel bogged down under what is considered 'norm' right :-) Love the way you describe the precious snuggly moments!