Lately, Cole and sleep has been a challenge.  He has recently learned that he can fight through his tiredness to extremes.  At bedtime, he has more than once chattered, played, and repeatedly wandered out of his room from 8pm until nearly 11pm.  In most cases, this amounts to sleep lost, as the next morning he is up at his regular time.  He has also started sleeping with Rick’s old work badge, which has become a big comfort object for him, and will wake up during the night one or two times in a panic if he can’t immediately find it.  It makes for some long nights.  I think, however, that his sleep habits are beginning to catch up with him.  This morning, when he woke up and I brought him into our room to read books until Delaney and Franny woke up, he actually fell asleep again.  For Cole, this was unprecedented!  I definitely wasn’t complaining, but I would rather this phase would just pass—and the sooner the better!