Bad Dreams Go Away

Case has been having nightmares since he was a wee little baby and lots of times I can handle listening to him yell/cry out in the middle of the night but sometimes it’s just hard. I hate hearing him yell out, ‘no, no, no’ or ‘don’t hurt me!’ Don’t hurt me?! Who is hurting you and why are you dreaming about being hurt! And then there is of course, ‘Mommy, help me, help me!’ So far his dreams haven’t affected his desire to go to sleep at night which I am grateful for, but every night when I hear him yelling or crying I find myself saying, ‘bad dreams go away, good dreams come and stay’ over and over again (anyone else addicted to Grey’s). Bad dreams LEAVE MY BABY ALONE!



On another note, as you can see from the picture above we have been indulging in indoor picnic's since the weather has been sooooo cold. The other day we were sitting at his table and chairs enjoying a snack. Case was dunking his pretzel sticks in his water and eating them. After a while his water became cloudy yellow with pretzel remnants. Later he kindly offered me a drink of his water and I politely refused. I said, “No thank you. I don’t want any of your pretzel juice.” He promptly said, “I LOVE pretzel juice” and downed the glass. Pretzel juice……