My kids all had fairly firm bedtimes. Wiz had trouble sleeping after he got to be about 6 or 7 but before that he slept fairly well. Until he was 14 he woke up between 5 and 6 every single morning. The later he went to bed the earlier he got up. Every single doctor/psychiatrist/therapist we ever saw said that if we kept him up at night until 10 or 11 he would sleep later. It never worked. When he was about 7 I started ignoring all of the sleep advice from the docs and insisting we try medications to help him sleep. If he was upset over anything he was unable to sleep and then would be up an hour or two earlier the next day and it was ALWAYS an awful day. When he was little he would nap with me but wanted to sleep alone at night. Jess was totally different. She HATED sleeping alone from the start. She was rarely in her bassinet because she could not sleep laying flat. She has a sinus problem where even if she is sick very little runs out of her nose and the drainage all goes down her throat. When she would lay flat her nose would stop up and she couldn't breathe. We had a swing that her carseat sat in and she slept in that until she was almost a year old. She also was a very hungry baby, taking 10 ounces at 8 weeks old. I stopped nursing at 6 weeks because she would get so hungry that she got frustrated and would just yell. The milk was there but it was too slow for her. The hospital had INSISTED that she have a bottle and I could not let her cry and be hungry until she adjusted to nursing. Oddly enough she was FAR healthier than either of the boys as an infant/toddler/little kid. Tyler was all about oral fixations, LOL. He wanted to nurse 24/7. I slept on the couch with him because it was bitter cold when he was born and our bedrooms were on the top floor and it was too cold for him up there. At night he wanted to eat every hour - for at least 20 minutes. We slept together most of the time until he was crawling. Then he wanted his own bed and NO ONE around him. He and Jess would go off on their own to take naps. Jess would fall asleep wherever she was, even in the middle of lunch if it was late. There were many days I pulled a sandwich out of her hand as she sat there sleeping. thank you always toddled or crawled off into somewhere he couldn't see anyone and then fell asleep.
Now thank you is allowed up until 9pm, but he seems to be rested at 6 or 7 when he wakes up. He is usually content to read in his room for a while when he wakes up, which is nice. Because of the pain and shaking Jess is often up all night and asleep in the recliner in the living room all day. It is the ONLY place she can be comfortable, which makes us very sad. NONE of us like having her in the living room 24/7, but she cannot lay flat and the shaking and pain are much worse at night. According to the therapist she would have no symptoms in her sleep if it was anxiety unless she had bad dreams. She has almost never had bad dreams, but does remember most of her dreams. (I can only remember having had 3 dreams in my life and do not get the kind of sleep where you dream, at least not in any of the sleep studies I have had.) So normal for Jess is VERY strange right now, but is the best she can handle. thank you's normal is closer to normal but he still needs to have something in his mouth much of the time, hence all the chewed up shirts. Just this month we have FINALLY had a few shirts that were worn and not chewed!!!
My kids ALL are voracious readers, often sitting in front of a tv show while engrossed in a book. Each of them has foods they refuse to eat. thank you loves nuts and the other two won't touch them, Jess loves seafood, which she just learned. thank you HATES it, also cannot stand strawberries, pineapple, orange, and prefers soy milk over dairy though he LOVES cheddar cheese and it doesn't cause problems. I am thrilled that he dislikes the orange, pineapple, strawberry because he reacts quite severely to them, so it saves a lot of problems.
I won't claim normal for my kids. When I spend time with their classmates the "normal" ones seem rather boring to me. I like my kids quirky and eccentric!