Giving the world a hand since February 3rd, 2002. "If you're gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten."




Comments by YACCS

 
SADLY, NO CURE

Is there some sort of disease that new parents get that makes them refer to themselves in the third person? We've said a lot of "Daddy has to go do this" and "Mommy has to go do that" around the domicile. We even occasionally refer to each other as "Mommy" or "Daddy". Sad, isn't it?

So, the child has her mother's attitude and her father's sleeping habits. When it's time to eat, then, by God, she's gonna eat! When she wants to sleep, she's like a pink little sack of warm oatmeal. I mean, this kid sleeps like a brick!

On the good side, we're finally getting her on a decent day/night schedule. The trick is to keep her awake from 8-10pm. If we do that, she only wakes up 1-3 times from 10pm until 8am. During the night shift, I sleep until R has nursed the child on one side. Since the kid falls asleep after one boob, I then get the nod to change the diaper & wake the little one up. Here's the overnight drill (from my perspective):

<ELBOW JAB>

"Wake up, Daddy. I need a diaper change & wakeup."

Crack one eye open. Accept child from R's arms. Stagger into baby's room, holding child similar to holding a wet cat.

Change diaper while allowing the one cracked eye to close. Hope that diaper is on corrent end.

Open eye. Notice that child is wide awake now.

Stagger back into bedroom, holding child like ten pounds of raw liver. Hand child back to R.

Climb back into bed. Pass out.

Ahhhhh, the joys of parenthood.

so wrote Leper around about 8:40 PM