Over the past couple weeks we have been weaning the littlest mermaid off of middle-of-the-night nursing. In this regard I get a healthier dose of something I am not accustomed to; waking up frequently to calm a crying baby. It used to be that I didn’t have the equipment to calm her and now it is rather BECAUSE I don’t have the equipment that I get my just reward.
It of course gets worse before it gets better and well…that pretty much means that Emma is weaning us off of middle-of-the-night sleeping. It is relatively short lived though, when compared to the last 21 months of sleep deprivation. I will take my lumps.
So, last night was a landmark night and at 5:26 AM The Mommy marked it clearly;
Wow! Emma hasn’t woken up all night.
About 8.34 seconds later she woke up.
You might amaze, as I did, and reflect on the wonder of the absolute synchronicity between mother and child, between offspring and caregiver; ahh the glorious miracle of it all. You might think that was the point of my sharing this with you.
You would be wrong.
My immediate thoughts this morning were along those lines. But the true awe inspiring event of this morning was dulled by my aforementioned ‘just rewards’ and ‘lumps’. Once I cleared my head I realized that the real news here, the real story, is why…WHY! on EARTH! would you wake me up an hour before my torture device alarm to inform me that Emma has FINALLY! slept the night through.
WHyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeee!?
blief 
WHY? Because I love you of course! 🙂
And I want to share all of our children’s milestones and accomplishments with you as soon as they happen.
And, well…because this is like the second time in the above mentioned 21 months that I had more than three or four hours of sleep in a row, thus I felt so fabulous at 5:45 am after having an incredible 7+ hours of sleep in one stretch that I just had to proclaim my amazement!
And of course, after feeding the child I got to go back to sleep. 🙂
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Dear Lief,
You know, you have a great family and everything so good that I (being older and more experienced –heh heh!) must advise you to “cool it” regarding feeling “put out” that you were awakened a few minutes (seconds?) early by a much more pleasant sound (your loving wife, for cat’s sake!!) than the aforementioned torture device.
As your Grandpa, I can tell you that I have gotten into this deep trouble that has exiled me from the Grand Mother’s LMP’s by being just a bit too “un-cool” about lots of little things such as you are now fretting.
Congratulations, on at last getting a non-interrupted night’s sleep. May you have many more.
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