Today was not a great day. I was up last night until 2, trying to figure out a problem with the server move (I left it for morning), and then my new Realtor called at 8:30, not fully appreciating the time change, apparently. I got out of bed anyway, because Simon was being irritable, and I figured I'd see if I could help.
Diana just put him down, hoping for a morning nap since he got up at 5:30 again, but it didn't last long. I briefly went back to troubleshooting the problem, but didn't get far. Then Diana noticed a recipe she printed didn't print, and it's because the drum finally gave out on the printer... nine months after the warning light came on. Maybe it's because I was still out-of-my-mind tired, but in trying to extract the drum out of HP's nuclear shielding plastic, I cut deep into one of my fingers with the other hand and proceeded to bleed. Lots. I was more angry than hurt, and I'm sensitive to finger tip injuries after slicing a good part of one finger tip off a few years ago on vacation on the razor in my suitcase (still have a scar from that).
The rest of the morning was spent trying to keep Simon from melting down, since he refused to sleep. I can't even account for most of the time. This has been his pattern lately, where he just can't settle into a morning nap. I only experience this on weekends obviously, and it's the fatigue that gets to me. With Diana, it's the daily fatigue and the concern about napping as a health issue. Personally I don't think he's developmentally at risk, but when you're tired, everything appears worse.
After much tag-team binky realignment over the course of an hour, he finally fell asleep around 1-something, so he missed morning napping entirely. Diana ran to bed. After a little busy work archiving server logs, I crashed on the couch. I was there maybe a half-hour when the maintenance guy came to check out the dish washer, which needed a new pump.
Simon got up a little after 3, which was disheartening because it meant another early evening crash was likely, and we theorize that part of the early mornings may have to do with the early bed times. He was still being cranky, but we did play a little and talk. By 5, he was already starting to crash again. Keeping him up was obviously not going to help, so we put him in the swing for a bit, and despite dozing off, didn't truly sleep. He more or less made it to his next meal without actual sleep.
We had more happy time with him and he stayed up until 7, which was what we were hoping for. We burrito'd him up, kissed him goodnight, and he was out almost instantly. So now we'll see what a day of minimal napping and a decent bed time do for his overnight sleeping. He is admittedly still kind of young for pattern forming, but it feels like we've already been at it for a year! I know, even from looking at photos from a month ago, that we'll be amazed at how big he'll be even a month from now, so I'm trying to keep some perspective that we'll never have another chance to enjoy his tinyness again.
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