10/52, 5/52: Sleep

"A portrait of my oldest son once a week, every week in 2014."
10/52

"A portrait of my youngest son once a week, every week in 2014."
5/52

Levi:  He is so two.  Levi is experiencing some major sleep regressions.  He wakes up a puffy eyed curmudgeon and requires either prolonged cuddling or a meal immediately to satiate his out-of-sorts feelings.  I understand completely because I am exactly the same way.  I am not a good napper and feel this same way when I wake up from my naps, be it 15 minutes (advised by well-meaning people) or an hour.   We emerge exhausted from trying to put him down to sleep.  Last night it took two hours and two frustrated parents to get this two year old to sleep.

Wyatt:  This aging newborn sleeps so much.  I have so many photos of him sleeping, but so few of him awake.  When I stagger from a darkened room and a sleeping toddler, I am greeted by a very hungry and sleepy baby.  I am very grateful that he sleeps solidly and soundly in the night, waking only once or twice to feed.  Once in the dark I reached out to feel him.  My finger was met by something warm and soft and it was only after he grasped me I realized it was his hand holding my finger.  A delicious moment in the dark.