So we’re going to bed as usual this evening. I have a paper to finish for a class, so Terra holds onto Benjamin for an extra half hour while I hack it out as quickly as possible. Then I get Benjamin at 8 ‘o clock. He plays next to me on the bed for most of Knight Rider (yes, it is about the only show I actually try to watch…), and then begins to take his bottle near the end. By the time Life comes on after Knight Rider, he is asleep. As usual, I let him sleep for a bit before I put him to bed.

All this is as pretty close to normal as you can make it. And the last two nights I’ve only had to give him a few more sips from the bottle around 11pm or so to knock him back out (when he wakes up whimpering), and then he’s slept soundly for the rest of the evening until his early morning feeding around 5am.

So I’m expecting the same tonight. Not so much. It’s 11pm and he’s so wide awake I can’t hold him. I put him on the floor, and a few minutes later he’s about six feet away. Doing this:

Yeh, he headed over to our little toy storage thing and started in on the toys on the first level. I don’t think I’m ever going to sleep.