Sam's New Trick

I sometimes think Sam reads this blog regularly. He often jumps on the computer, clicks away with the mouse, and looks chagrined when we catch him, but I always assumed he was trying to play more Thomas games. Now I know that he's actually trying to read the blog.

I make this statement because last Friday, I posted about his sleeping. And sure enough, Friday night he decided to try a new trick. It used to be that when Sam woke up, he would lounge in bed, talking to himself and rolling around. Friday night, though, he woke up at 2:00 in the morning with a loud cry. I woke up at the sound of his voice and decided to wait and see if he was waking up or just crying out in his sleep. Then I hear the doorknob on his door click open, a quiet "pad, pad, pad" as he walked across the hall, and then the click of my door closing. Suddenly I feel Sam climbing over me, proclaiming that he needed to sleep with me.

I asked him if he were alright, but he just repeated his statement and snuggled down under the covers.

Cute, right? Well, Sunday morning at 6:00 he woke up again. Same clicking, same pad, pad, padding. But this time he wanted to play instead of sleep. He did it again this morning, only instead of coming to see me, he headed downstairs where Joy is sleeping in a recliner, wormed his way into the chair next to her, and asked if he could watch TV.

Next thing we know, he'll go out and get the paper and make us breakfast without waking us up to ask if we like our eggs over easy or scrambled.