sleepless in pville

hiya, mr. man!

listen, buddy, i love you more than life itself, but i am too old to party with you all night long. getting a series of 2-hour naps all night long does nothing for my verve, 'kay? i know you're restless b/c those teeth are bothering you. YAY for one of those little buggers finally coming through, but i know the other one is still driving you nuts. and, i know that your growing brain is doing all sorts of new and cool things right now and that this causes your sleep to change, but man, i can't keep up with you buddy!

this morning you were up at 1 a.m. and again at 4:30 a.m. it's taking longer to soothe you back to sleep right now b/c you're so restless, so, on average, i'm able to get back to sleep about an hour or so after you wake. well, when i put you back down at 5 after your 4:3o feeding, you stayed asleep for only a few minutes before you started softly cooing and singing to yourself. i listened to your vocals for about 20 minutes before you settled and we both fell asleep. it seems we were asleep for no more than 20 minutes when you started singing and cooing again. i listened to you, hoping you'd fall back to sleep...no dice. you just ramped up the sound and started to get fussy. so, i sprung you from your prison. we went downstairs, got fresh pants, got dressed for the day and settled down to cuddle and play on your playmat. that lasted about 7 minutes before you started making you're "i'm exhausted whimper". so, i gave you some teething tablets, fixed you some milk, and went to wake daddy to ask him to take over so i could go back to sleep. i was swaddling you again as daddy came downstairs (yeah, you're back in the swaddle!), and when he took over, you konked out in less than 5 minutes! i guess you reserve your partying for me :-)

tonight you ended up getting your bath and dinner and bedtime about an hour earlier than you usually do. i put a whole queen sized sheet set over your window to make it dark enough to be like night in your room. i have no idea what tonight holds. i'm guessing it'll be another long one. i should get to sleep soon so that i have a better shot at keeping up with you :-)

i love you, you non-sleeping boy!
-mommy