While we've always welcomed any little snugglers into our bed during the night, there is one who has made more of an effort than the others to carve out a permanent little spot for himself. More often than not we wake to find him right in the middle, sucking his thumb and living the dream. He's not still. At all. He moves and kicks and throws his legs over us and whacks us in the face. He "massages" us with his feet. He kicks the covers off.

Sometimes it's super annoying and one of us finally wakes up enough to return him back to his own bed, but on those nights when he's curled up in his snuggly little ball and whispering, "I love you" and "this is my very favorite spot", we smile and squeeze in a little closer and remember that a day will come when we will miss this.

Every morning I hear his sweet little raspy voice say, "May I please have some fresh water?", and then he snuggles back in and sucks his right thumb and grabs my hand with his left. We like sleep a whole lot. But we also love the security that our boy gets when he snuggles in with his favorite people in his favorite spot. He's baby number five and we know all too well how fleeting these days are. Future days will be sweet in their own way, but we're going to miss the sweetness of now.