Fire Lerms and No Sleep

I'm starting to wonder when I will ever get a full night's sleep any more. I'm starting to wonder when my kids... BOTH of them will both sleep through the night and I can sleep and not be awakened by a hungry baby, a crying 3 year old, a snoring husband, a loud dog, or annoying cats. I'm starting to wonder if I will keep my sanity. BUT I know I'll miss all of this when my children are grown and I still won't be able to sleep because I will miss them so much.

An interesting thing about Joey is his obsession with fire alarms. I think it all started about 6 months ago and I was cooking and accidently set off the fire alarm - food's done! Well Joey FREAKED OUT at the fire alarm. Since then, we have tried to explain to him what we do when the fire alarm beeps and how it's just a way to keep us safe and get us out of the house. But he's still obsessed with them. He notices them everywhere we go. He calls them 'fire lerms'. Every store, house, doctors office, or anywhere we go he searches untill he finds the 'fire lerms'. He will then compare them to other ones he's seen. At first he was afraid of the fire alarm in his room and wouldn't walk under it by himself. Thankfully he's over that, but now he's starting a new trend. 2 nights ago he woke up crying and I went in there and he told me he needed me in bed with him. Well I didn't give in and he did go back to sleep and the next morning he told me that he saw the 'flashing fire lerm moving'. Hmmm. Well last night I woke up at 4 in the morning to someone crying. While I layed there trying to hear which kid it was and how insistent it was over my husband snoring, the crying stopped.

Then here comes Joey toddling into our room. *sigh* It starts.

He says 'Mommy - I need to sleep with you. I saw the flashing fire lerm in my room moving again.'

I said 'Joey - fire alarms don't move.'

He says 'But I saw it move!' then climbs up in our bed. So much for sleeping...

I let him in our bed - which will probably make this a repeat performance. Hopefully next time I will be able to persuade him to sleep in his own bed. I'm not against parents letting their children sleep in their bed with them, but I cannot sleep well with a kid in the bed and really don't want to make it habit of letting him in our bed all the time.

Stupid flashing fire lerms and good imaginations! Ugh - I'm tired!