On dreams we will depend.

[weaklingrecords]

I've been having crazy insane-o dreams lately. Which is strange because I haven't been sleeping very well. I've been waking up every couple of hours in a start, thinking that I'm late for something, or thinking that I've heard Drew or actually hearing Drew. He hasn't been sleeping well lately. His nose is running and we think he's getting some

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[soakingup]

Good for you on the submission acceptance!

[bassmike]

"I weep for the future."

[efhayward]

The phantom crying you think you hear and the restlessness are normal. Happens to all of us, especially when the kiddo is having trouble sustaining long spans of sleep. Your body just seems to go on high alert and won't let itself relax to the point that you get any decent z's.

Full nights of sleep also become rarer when the kid first becomes mobile. Pulling up to stand, they tend to become more fully awake than when all they can do is lie there.

With your review, perhaps you could offer Peter some sort of supervisory capacity or profit-sharing plan in order to motivate him. I understand his TPS have been pretty spotty lately.

"Did you get the memo?"

[bassmike]

Ah, phantom crying and restlessness. Bain of new parents.

For the first three or four days after Jack learned to pull himself up to a standing position in the crib, he would not just go back to sleep. He would walk around and around the perimeter of the crib, get really tired, eventually sit down, and cry because he was so tired. But he was so enthused by his newfound abilities that he refused to lie down and go to sleep until he was utterly exhausted (and we were utterly exhausted having listened to the whole event on the baby monitor and tried to go in and soothe him). Eventually, the newness of the ability wore off, and after that he would go back to sleep on his own pretty quickly.

So, get ready for that, if Drew goes through a similar transition.