Bed bugs

I love snuggling with my children. It doesn't matter if it is at night before bed time or early in the mornings, when you want those few extra minutes of rest and they are standing beside your bed, with puppy dog eyes, begging to crawl in bed with you. I just love those times- probably because I know my days are numbered before they get too old to even consider it. It is hard to resist the opportunity to watch those sweet little faces when they finally do doze off. 

The one thing that I have noticed is how quickly the bed shrinks when one of them climbs in. Last night, Layne and Blair were soundly snoring away in their beds (every now and then I heard "boo" coming from Blair's room- no idea what she was scaring away) and Kennedy was in bed with Dean and I "winding down" (using us as her personal jungle gym and squealing as loudly as possible). She finally decided to grab her bunny and lay down, whack us a few times with it, and snuggle up. Shortly after this sudden stop in her activity, I looked over and Dean was asleep, Kennedy promptly followed his lead and was out and curled up in a ball. Then the sprawl began. First it was the legs, then the arms, then the torso twisted a little and before I knew what had happened, she had managed to secure her spot in over half of the bed. Two adults and one 7 month old- you would think that the proportions would be dramatically different with the adults taking up the bulk of the space but noooooo..... Dean was on the edge, I was on the edge, and Kennedy was sleeping soundly in the middle. She looked like an overgrown starfish with her arms spread open wide, legs propped up on me, and her head on his chest. Twenty-nine inches of baby, taking up the equivalent of an entire queen size bed. 

From seven months to seven years, it does not matter. If a child is in my bed (with or without Dean), I find myself going from comfortably situated to dangling over the edge, dodging flailing arms and kicking legs, and praying that they do not move another inch of I will surely end up on the floor. They are little and they are so sweet (especially when they are asleep), yet they move in and take over the bed each time- inch by inch.