You're breaking my heart

It was about 4:00 a.m. when I felt a little body trying to skooch his way into my side of the bed (3rd night in a row). My body could not take the uncomfortable sleeping arrangement anymore. I was exhausted but I got up, walked him back to his room, and went over the speech...again. "Sweetie, this is your bed. You're safe here. Your bad dreams are just that, dreams. Our bedroom is right next to yours..." yadda, yadda, yadda. The "but mommy's" were driving me insane. My eyes were rolling to the back of my head the whole time I talked to him. I was barely awake. As I tried to walk away from his bed I hear "Mommy, you're breaking my heart". ARE .YOU.KIDDING.ME??!! Who taught him that?? Guess what? He broke my heart!! I walked back to him and I whispered in his ear "baby, mommy's going to bed now. If you get up again, I'm locking the door. MOMMY LOVES YOU!! Good night". Nope, I didn't give in. Not gonna lie, almost did, but the delirium due to lack of sleep kicked in super quick;)

That was 2 nights ago. Since then, I have set up a sleeping chart for my dear Caleb. 1 week of sleeping in his bed with no interruptions gets him a prize. 2 weeks gets him a special surprise. 3 weeks gets him a SUPER DUPER EXTRA SPECIAL SURPRISE! Woohoo! I'm excited already (no idea what exactly each reward is going to be but whatever, I have time)! So far...so good. I've been going to sleep early without the visits of little people in the middle of the night. Life is good!

Here I leave you with images of my 2 children, happy, and ready for bed. Ahhh, music to my ears, "happy children ready for bed".