Football boy?

For the last few mornings, Kirkland has been telling us the "football boy" woke him up. We have no idea who this could be. At night, when we are putting him down, he asks, "Did the football boy go back in the yard?" Geoff asked him what the "football boy's" name was, and he didn't know. He just knows he wears a hat; and that he climbs in his window when he is tired of playing outside.

I don't believe in "ghosts", but I would love to know who he thinks he is seeing.

My child doesn't sleep

Kirkland has kind of been creeping us out lately at night. He gets up in the middle of the night & silently walks to our room, and doesn't make a peep until he is right there by my pillow, and sometimes, he just touches my face or my arm without ever saying a word. Here are just some of our favorites:

1. "The rocking chair is looking at me." (Seriously, we have to turn it around at bedtime so it doesn't "look" at him)

2. "They're watching" (We don't dare ask "who?" We are scared to know!)

3. "I hear sounds"

Sometimes, he just comes up with stuff so that we will get up & walk him back to his bed.

1. Kirkland: "I hurt"
Me: "Where?"
Kirkland: "In my feelings"
Me (suspicious that this is a scam): "Where are your feelings?"
He has to think about it, then he points to his stomach. Hmmm... Go back to bed.

2. "I'm yawning....Make me stop yawning" (Are you kidding? It's 2 a.m. He does not understand that the best cure for yawning is to just go back to sleep)

3. "I need medicine" (Don't bother asking, "for what?", he doesn't know. It's just quicker to go & get a medicine dropper, fill it with juice & give him his "medicine")

My favorite is from last night at 3:30, he is screaming this from his bed.

4. "Hey! HEY!!!! I've got boogers" Great...go back to sleep.