in strange positions
and/or with funny faces.
Nathan is not difficult to rouse unless it is for school. He's kind of a light sleeper most of the time. Nicholas on the other hand can and will sleep through just about anything.
I have made the mistake of nursing my boys to sleep in their infancy then cuddling them to sleep later on. With Nathan, after he fell asleep it was into the crib with no detours, no bumps. If he got jiggled, he'd wake up. Nicholas is so the opposite. After he falls asleep, I take him up to his room, lay him on his dresser to change his diaper (and sometime even have to put jammies on him), then I pick him up again and put him into his bed. He barely moves through all of this. When he sleeps, he sleeps like the dead. LOL
Getting him to wake up is nothing less than a job in itself. You have to get creative. Subtlety will not work. Soft talking and a back rub...nothing. Kisses and tickling his face...mildly annoying, he'll turn away but keep snoring. Jumping on his bed, straddling his sleeping form and bouncing to jiggle the bed...sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Physically rolling him over, picking him up, pushing around the bed will eventually work but then he's kind of crabby at first.
The funniest one though was what my hubby did. He went into Nic's room and quickly grabbed his belly shaking him and yelling, "BAAAAAHHHHHH!"
NOTHING HAPPENED! Nic didn't even jump. Stephen and I just looked at each other and started to laugh. We knew he was alive but he was seriously unconscious. It took some extra work to wake Nic up that morning but he woke up in good spirits.
We've tormented the boys after a long car ride too. They will be sound asleep when we pull into the garage so we'll open their doors and start to yell and scream like we're about to fall off a cliff. Nathan wakes up immediately, confused then gives us crap for scaring him. Nic will sometimes wake up but most of the time he'll just flicker his eyes and go back to sleep.
What is nice is that when Nicholas wakes up, he's usually in good spirits. Even when we have to wake him up before he's ready. I think he may take after my Mom. Nathan is happy when he wakes up on his own but is a crabby pants if we have to wake him up. I think Nathan takes after Stephen, myself and my Dad...Wake us up early and we're down right NASTY! At least there's one nice morning person in this household. LOL
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