Mornings and Late Night

Reid tend to sleep very well through the night, and we're lucky.  He's just a month (minus a day) old and is sleeping five to seven hours in one stretch...awesome!  But despite this, I'm still tired all the time.  The thing is that when he does get up, it's pretty immediate that he needs a change.  One might be able to go back to sleep when you change a baby in the middle of the night, but you don't have much of a shot when you're dealing with a screaming baby at 7:30 in the morning.

So then you're good for a while.  The first couple hours are devoted to baby and mommy care, which is actually pretty good.  At first it was constant, then got to a point where Reid and Leslie took the first four hours of the day at least.  But now Leslie has recovered pretty fully from the operation.

So you're up at 7:30 or 8 (which I actually think is a pretty good time to be up) but then you are going-going-going until midnight or so.  You're exhausted but not sleepy, so you start to cue up a DVD on your laptop.  But then you have to change a crying baby and in the middle of it he pees and poops everywhere so you have to change his clothes, too.

You do put on his Giants onesie and are happy about that.  Then you head back to your bed (which is really a bedroll on the floor) and fire up "Band of Brothers."  2am by the time it's done.

You think, "I could have used that extra hour of sleep."