sleeping habits

I have been together with my husband for quite a while now.  We will have been together for 7 years on April 25th, We have lived together 3 years, and we have been married for a year and a half in June.  Long enough for us to figure out eachother sleeping habits.   It took me a while to figure out a good sleeping schedule. We have our "his and her's" side of the bed, (while I was pregnant I convinced myself that I would sleep better if we switched sides... I was wrong, but we have yet to switch back).  We have figured out that Jacob is a back/side sleeper and I am for sure a stomach sleeper. We also figured out during pregnancy that when I sleep on my back I snore. A LOT.  Jacob doesn't like to sleep without a shower.  We both have to go to sleep pretty early because we both wake up pretty early for work.  I would like to say I dont have vary many sleep issues but who knows... I'm sleeping.  I do know for a fact that Jacob has some sleep issues that freak me out.

Jacob is a sleep talker. He is also a sleep walker.

It took me longer to figure out these interesting things about him. The first weird thing I figured out about him was that he sleeps with his eyes open. It's like he's staring at me. Super weird.  Talking in his sleep was the next weird thing.  I dont remember a lot of what he says because a lot of times it's unrecognizeable mermers and noises that I can't understand.  On the very special occasion that he talks to me in his sleep and I can understand him it always makes me wonder, WHAT THE HECK is he dreaming about?! The most recent event when he was talking in his sleep, the converstation went like this:

Jacob: "Girlfriend" (which by the way yes we still call eachother boyfriend and girlfriend, and yes we will probably do that until we die)

Me: huh?

Jacob: "Girlfriend do you have your earplugs in?"

Me: "Boyfriend you are sleeping"

Jacob: "I am NOT sleeping, do you have your earplugs?"

Me: "no, you are sleeping"

Jacob: " Do whatever you want". He then rolls over and goes back into regular sleep.

I always ask him if he remembers talking to me the night before and he usually remembers talking to me but doesnt remember what happend.  This is a very simmilar situation as to when he is sleep walking.  His sleep walking in most cases is much less obvious. Most of the time he heads towards the bathroom, but then viers off to some other part of the room. I can usually catch him by saying "boyfriend, what are you doing?".  Sometimes he responds still dreaming and it takes a second question, but most of the time it just takes that one for him to wake up and realize he doesn't know what he is doing and goes back to bed.  The last time he slept walked was when Kate was about 7 weeks old.  Jacob is a super light sleeper so he cant sleep in the same room as her because she is LOUD when she sleeps.  She was still sleeping in the living room in a bassinett thing when this happened which is what tipped me off to him sleep walking.  He had gotten out of bed and headed for the bathroom, turned around and then headed for the door to the living room.  I asked my usual "what are you doing?" and he said "I'm going to sleep on the couch" when I asked why he said " you need to stop rolling around" I told him "I havent moved since I have been asleep" and he says "oh, okay." and comes back to bed.

These instances are honestly few and far between but they always make me laugh.  They are just really funny. Something we have figured out about Kate is that she is already an expressive sleeper.  She dreams like no baby I have ever seen.  She looks like she is dreaming of bottles and trying to eat while she is sleeping.  she laughs, she cries, she screams, and she smiles all in her sleep.  she even sleeps with her eyes open just like Jacob.  let's all hope she doesnt grow up to be a sleep talker, but i'm not holding my breath. 

-K