My name is Jenn, and I'm 26 years old and married to a wonderful man named Daniel. Together we have a five year old daughter named 
Name: Alyssa
Name: Ryan
With the exception of one or two nights, Alyssa has been coming into bed with us every night for the past two weeks. She claims that she’s scared. Scared of what? I have no idea, because we never really get an answer out of her.
I admit, when she first started doing this I thought it was just dramatics, because she’ll do it to try (and ultimately fail, heh) to get out of going to bed. So the one night I locked our bedroom door, so that I would actually be woken up when she tried to get into bed with us. Well, I was woken up at 5am, and at 4:45am the night after that. She was disoriented and crying, so obviously no dramatics or faking. 
Anyway, five’s a crowd, because there have been at least five bodies in our queen bed every night. Now, a queen is a decent size bed, and it’s perfect for Dan and I. But we usually have Blueboy join us (he sleeps on top of Dan’s pillow), and Leah is always with us (around our legs, beneath the covers). Sometimes Kirin will join us too — he hangs out at the foot of the bed on Dan’s side. And then when you add Alyssa to the mix…
Yeah. I woke up feeling pretty crowded and squished this morning. Dan was smashed up against me because Alyssa and Kirin were on the other side of him, I couldn’t really stretch my arms out because Blueboy was on MY pillow, and I couldn’t straighten my legs because Leah was sprawled out at the foot of the bed.
Today was one of those days where I got out of bed just to GET OUT OF BED, not because I was actually ready to wake up!
