The Sea Witch is interrupting our sleep

I have to start this by saying that I have always felt extremely fortunate that I have two children that have slept through the night very early on. They must have just known that their Momma likes her sleep and does not do well without it. So you would think with my children being 5 and 3 that worrying about sleeping through the night would be a thing of the past. However, I am here to tell you, that the "Sea Witch" has made that a current reality.
A little over a month ago William starting waking up in the middle of night, just crying hysterically. At first I just chalked it up to one bad dream. When I went into his room and loved on him he would go right back to sleep. Well then it started happening every night. And then a couple of times a night. Finally, when he was crying, he told me that he wanted the "Sea Witch" to go away. I wasn't quite sure what he meant since I had never heard it talk about it before. So the next morning I started questioning him about this "Sea Witch" and trying to understand why she was upsetting him. He said that she was mean and trying to hurt him.
Turns out, he is talking about the "Sea Witch" from The Little Mermaid. The kids have seen it before but not anytime recently (our VHS player is broken right now). So I don't know what prompted him to all of the sudden dream about her.
We have had many conversations about the "Sea Witch" and how she is not mean, she will not hurt Will, and she is his "friend". I don't want to bring it up too much so that is all he is thinking about, but I also don't want him to think about her in his dreams. She is a little freaky in the movie, but of all things he has seen, I am just surprised that she is the thing he is having nightmares about.
Every night, he wakes up either once or twice. He is either crying or just waking up and crawling into our bed. I really hope that the "Sea Witch" will leave his dreams, and just go back to the sea. I guess only time will tell.
Hopefully next time I blog I can happily tell everyone that the "Sea Witch" has retreated back to the place she came from.

~ Em

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~ Em

Summer

To start summer out the kids are going to a new at home daycare. Two people from different aspects of life referred me to her. After meeting her and visiting her home Chris and I were relieved to feel so comfortable with the situation. Grace already knew a little girl that was her classmate at preschool, and they knew another little boy that goes there too. And after the first day I knew we made the right decision because when I came to pick up the kids they told me they wanted me to come back later because they weren't ready to leave there. I knew after hearing that, our decision was the right one.
Outside of daycare, we are staying busy too. Grace went to her first tea party. She was invited to a birthday tea party and it was right up her alley. She got all dressed up, and was on her best behavior. We will be going back maybe for a mom and daughter tea party! Also, we made s'mores in our backyard chimney fire pit. It always seems like a great idea until it is time to put the s'more together and the kids don't even want it, they just wanted to roast the marshmallow. Oh well, good family time.
We went with my sisters to a rock climbing place in Portland that has climbing for all age groups. Chris and I were a little nervous at first to have the kids just scale the wall free hand with no protection, but turns out we were nervous about nothing. The kids took right too it and shocked even themselves. I can't believe we have never been to this place before. It is a great place to take kids if you want to run them out of energy. So, perfect for my children.
I know we will have a lot of adventures this summer and I plan on taking lots of pictures to document them all.
P.S. I found Will's missing Thomas the Train rain boot tonight! It was behind my night stand, with about four other things I was missing, imagine that. And, just in time for summer! LOL

~ Em