Sometimes when we put Doodle down for the night, he doesn’t quite stay down. Many nights we have to deal with incessant trips back upstairs to send him back to bed, to get his sleeping buddies back in their proper places, and to get his blanket back on him perfectly how he needs it for good dreams. But every once in a while he figures out how to get to sleep on his own… he just hasn’t mastered actually getting back in bed.
Birds-eye view. I could barely fit the camera through the door!
Yes, sometimes he just hangs out by the door waiting for us to come rescue him from the dreaded night-night until his little body gives in and he passes out wherever he was at that moment.
Yes, the door seems to be the best place to fall asleep.
While laying down right next to the door has been a recent favorite for him, we have found him in some other great positions.
Here he is seated at the changing table. Those things make for great shelves, by the way!
We often joke about whose turn it is to go “fix him” before we go to bed.
His left hand was actually stuck in between the side of the car and his mattress.
Makes me curious what goes on in his little head – how he’s positive that he doesn’t need to go to sleep, yet he gets in these relatively uncomfortable positions and stays in them long enough to actually fall asleep.
This was from a good three-week stretch of him falling asleep next to his closet door.
I’ve even gone up there to find him on the floor right next to his bed haphazardly tucked under his blankets, complete with pillow, buddies, and water, almost as though I had intentionally tucked him in there myself.
When he was little, we’d even join in on some of his awkward sleeping positions. We are very much a sleep-loving house, and not much will keep us from trying to catch a few winks whenever and wherever we can.
Sleeping in his crib in the pediatrics ward, 7 weeks old, 10-day hospital stay.
Those nurses got such a kick out of seeing me in that crib every time they came in to check on him. 🙂
Not all sleep needs to be silly or awkward, though. Sometimes we just need some soft sweet cuddles to slowly fall into a deep, comfy slumber.
Best nap ever, he was about a week old.
Stay at Home Trauma 
Well, at least when he gets bigger, he will never have any trouble falling asleep on a transcontinental flight or a long train ride! Such a cutie!
Yeah, he’s a lot like his dad in that respect. Jake once slept soundly on a couch in a labor&deliver room while a friend of ours had her baby. Slept through the ENTIRE thing! 🙂
Some cute shots. You wonder how he just ended up falling asleep in those places. It’s as if he just collapsed.
Thanks. Yeah, a friend suggested we set up a video camera in his room, see what in the world he does up there. 🙂
Those pics are great! As strange as sleep is in my house, that’s one phenomena we don’t usually encounter. Yet.
🙂 He’s also *kind of* stuck in his room, can’t quite open his door. I’m sure he’d just be on a crazy rampage or come play in our bed if he could. Instead, he’s like a crazed lion or something wreaking havoc in his toy-free room until he finally gives in to his tired little body. 🙂