Our silly sleeper

Cooper's sleeping has been totally bizarre since I got home. Not in a bad way, but really odd. On Friday, he woke up at 5:45 totally WIRED CRAZY and then ended up acting so sleepy that I put him down for a nap at 8am. He proceeded to sleep until 11am, and then have a delightful day with no further napping needed. Yesterday he slept 12.5 hours (7:30pm to 8am) and then took a 4.5 hour nap (noon to 4:30). Lest you think that sleeping that much would keep him from going to bed at night, he was in bed at 7:30, got slightly perturbed at the trick or treaters that were mere feet from his crib as Matt doled out candy, and fast asleep at 8pm.

Then this morning, he was wide awake from 5am to 6am talking to himself. We could hear him on the monitor very clearly. Doggie! Mama! Dada! Dot dot dot water chicken hot hot hot raisins chickens baby Dada! Just endless blather, no sign of really wanted a parent to come get him, no edge of distress in his voice. And then he fell back asleep (so did we) and got up at... wait... 8:45 (well, 745 with the time change, but whatever) in the morning. Bright and shiny! This disrupted his morning quite a bit and we ended up try to get him to nap at 1 (didn't work) so ended up with a redo at 3pm (bingo!), which is where he is now. Sleeping. Again. God knows how long he'll nap.

He's not sick, so we figure that either he'll double his vocabulary in the next few days, or grow two inches. In the past, this sort of odd sleeping has always been associated with something groundbreaking like learning to walk, figuring out how to use his sign language, or similar. My best guess is that he's working on some kind of communication thing in his sleep. The funny soliloquy we enjoyed this morning is a pretty big giveaway that something is afoot in his little brain.

Chicken! Truck! Dot dot baby dot Boo-boo Mama Dada dada dada DOGGIE!