Meet the tot who will fall asleep anywhere but his own cot - including in his wardrobe, on a shelf and even on his pet dog.<br /><br />Little Cruze Johnston, two, has a habit of taking a nap in the most unusual of places around his home in New South Wales, Australia.<br /><br />His mum, Kate Johnston, 22, found her son’s antics so hilarious that she posted a TikTok video of him sleeping in a variety of locations around the house - which has since gone viral and gained 4.6 million views.<br /><br />The mum-of-one - who works as a marketing assistant - from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, said: “One night I went to check on Cruze in his cot and I found him asleep under his changing table.<br /><br />“I woke him up and asked ‘what are you doing?’ and he looked at me and laughed.<br /><br />“The next night he did the same thing and then from then on, every single nap and bedtime he got more and more creative and found weird places to sleep.<br /><br />“He has snoozed in his wardrobe, behind a chair, on shelves, on a swing and the craziest place I found him was in a cupboard - he’d taken all of his shoes and things out of the bottom shelf and then closed the door and went to sleep. He even falls asleep on our pet dog, Hercules.<br /><br />“It can sometimes take me a few minutes to find him."<br /><br />Kate started posting daily updates documenting the funniest places Cruze had chosen to sleep on her Instagram page to the delight of friends and family.<br /><br />Soon she decided to make a TikTok video and after posting a hilarious video to her account in January 2022, the video went viral, and it has since been watched 4.6 million times.<br /><br />Kate said: “People love seeing where Cruze ends up sleeping.<br /><br />“I even had responses from people saying that they did the same as a child and others were commenting telling me Cruze must have been a cat in a previous life.<br /><br />“People just thought it was hilarious.”<br /><br />Cruze has since watched the video several times and is particularly entertained by his own antics.<br /><br />Kate said: “He watches the videos and laughs at himself - he thinks he’s quite funny.”<br /><br />Kate revealed that Cruze is a good sleeper and can conk out anywhere because he is so active during the day.<br /><br />She said: “He’s so busy and just doesn’t stop running and climbing which is why he’s so worn out by the end of the day.<br /><br />“He loves any game with a ball and is just on the go 24/7.”<br /><br />Cruze’s mum also puts his good sleeping habits down to his time at the Tresillian Sleep School, Australia, where he received training to learn how to fall asleep.<br /><br />Kate explained: “As a baby, Cruze was a bad sleeper as I would be up with him throughout the night.<br /><br />“So, when he was eight months old, I took him to a sleep training school for a week which taught him to sleep in a cot.<br /><br />“It was fantastic and ever since, he’s been a fabulous sleeper - he's just anywhere but his cot.”<br /><br />During the height of his unusual sleeping phase, Kate and her husband, Bryce Johnston, 22, a delivery driver, bought their son a bed to encourage him to spend his nights and nap times tucked up there which has so far has proven effective.<br /><br />Kate said: “We decided to buy Cruze a proper bed to see if he would sleep better there and it seems to have worked.<br /><br />“Initially he slept on the carpet beside it when we first put it in his room but now, he’ll happily sleep in it.<br /><br />“I’ll put him in there and he’ll go to sleep straight away.<br /><br />“We enjoyed his funny little phase while it lasted though, it became a bit of a game for us as well as him - every nap time I would think ‘I wonder where he’ll choose to sleep tonight?”
