night terrors and elmo

rayskit10 · November 2008

i think Truitt is having nightmares that something has happened to Elmo. 2 nights ago, he woke up crying really hard and when i went to get him he kept saying "Elmo. Uh oh. Uh oh. Elmo."

Then, last night he cried out in his sleep- not words but you could tell he was upset. This morning, he woke up, looked at me and said "Snack." and then "Elmo" and got out of bed and ran for the tv. This is weird b/c he loooves to lounge in bed when he first gets up (he likes to snuggle and hold hands. it's super cute) and we never watch tv in the morning.

Weird....

savannah11 · November 2008

Is Elmo haunting him? ;-). ?

?I think Orion is having nightmares as well. ?Every few nights he'll wake up screaming and need to be rocked for a few minutes before he'll fall back to sleep. ?

rayskit10 · November 2008

it's so weird- it's not like Elmo is haunting him. it's like he's worried something happened to Elmo. weird...

it's hard b/c sometimes he wakes up crying and i think it's teeth and sometimes i think it's nightmares. either way, lots of sleeplessness in our house recently. hope this is just another phase they're going through...

savannah11 · November 2008

Maybe he'd like an Elmo doll to sleep with? ?Then he'd know that Elmo is okay.

?I'm fairly certain Orion's issue is nightmares. ?He's done teething (well, until the 2 year molars) and I can tell a difference between when he just lost his pacifier and when he's really upset. ?We usually find him sitting up in his crib with his pacifier in his mouth screaming bloody murder and wanting to be held. ??

rayskit10 · November 2008

savannah11:

Maybe he'd like an Elmo doll to sleep with? Then he'd know that Elmo is okay.

I'm fairly certain Orion's issue is nightmares. He's done teething (well, until the 2 year molars) and I can tell a difference between when he just lost his pacifier and when he's really upset. We usually find him sitting up in his crib with his pacifier in his mouth screaming bloody murder and wanting to be held.

truitt is getting all.freaking.four of his 2 year molars at the same time. oy.

he has an elmo doll but that means i have to sleep with it as well Tongue Tied

aprilprincess · November 2008

when matt was in the hospital he was on the drug diludan (sp?) that would give him nightmares. they often involved elmo and talking school desks. it was weird.

my sister does a great elmo impersonation that she would use to mess with her kids. telling them elmo couldn't wait till they went to sleep so he could sneak in the rooms and cut their hair and such. oddly they never had bad elmo dreams.

Addie loves to cuddle in the mornings too! she'll wake up then like to lay there to ease into being alert. truitt's such a sweet sensitive kid to be looking out for elmo, maybe he just wants to see him on tv to make sure he's ok?