Last night was a pretty rough night.  It started out with Super Michael yelling down around 9ish having had a bad dream.  Super Mega Mommy was going to bed at the time, so he headed off to bed with her while I stayed down stairs.  Around 10:30ish, Princess K yelled down and SHE had a nightmare.  Since the big bed was already occupied, I brought Princess K downstairs with me while I worked on my blog entry yesterday and got caught up with some DVR stuff I recorded.  I thought about putting BOTH kids in the big bed with Super Mega Mommy, but quickly thought better of THAT one because the kids would have just goofed around and no sleeping would have been had for everybody involved.  Plus our bed isn't THAT big.

Whatever it was Princess K had a dream about must have been pretty bad, because she wouldn't let me out of her sight.  I went to cover up Lennie the Super Guinea Pig, and she freaked out because I left her on the couch alone.  She had to follow me around everywhere.  I locked all the doors, Princess K was right there.  I got up to get a drink of water, Princess K was there as well.

Around 11ish, I finished with all of my chores and decided I needed to get her up to bed even though she was sitting here wide eyed and not looking anything near sleepy.  I got her upstairs, told her to stay put while I moved Super Michael out of our bed and into his bed and then came back and got her into the big bed.

I'm not sure what is up with both of my kids but they have to sleep on TOP of me.  And they are like little furnaces with their little bodies getting super hot when they are in bed.  When either kid is in our bed, I usually end up on the very edge of the bed with about 2 inches of space to myself with one of the kids cuddled up behind me and usually several feet of empty space until you get to Super Mega Mommy.  Is it that I'm just more cuddly, or maybe they get their lava bodies from Super Mega Mommy and she's too hot to cuddle up against as well?

So, around 1:30, after no sleep up until this point on my part, I decided Princess K MUST be ready to go into her own bed and I proceed to take her into her room.  I get her down alright, give her a good night kiss and "I love you's" and head off to try to get SOME sleep.  I'm JUST about to fall asleep, when she starts yelling like crazy for daddy again and I have to go and get her and bring her back into the big bed.  Super Mega Mommy must have put her to bed at some point after that, because she wasn't in the bed when I got up.

So, I spent all day just exhausted while both kids had EXTRA energy.  It's just not FAIR that they can sleep either 12 hours at a time, or 3 hours and STILL have the same energy levels.  I really have no idea where they get all the energy they have.  It's not from the ZERO food that they eat during the day...unless you count the mass quantities of fruit snacks and fishy crackers that they eat.

Which brings me to my question of the day.  My kids have nightmares and are scared of monsters and we either have to sleep in bed with them for a bit, or they want to come sleep with us.  This really cuts down on OUR sleep and makes me a cranky boy the next day...well, CRANKIER anyway.  What do you do with your kids when they get scared?  If your kids are scared of "monsters", what do you do to calm their fears?  Yes, we have monster spray.