Sleep is for losers

Sleep is starting to become a rare and valuable commodity in our household. For whatever reason, The Girl has decided that sleeping through the night is for losers.

Is it teething? Is it a growth spurt? Is it a developmental leap? Is it just plain stubbornness? I don’t know and, quite honestly, I don’t care at this point. I’d just like to get more than three hours of sleep at a time.

Monday afternoon, The Wife and I both took the afternoon off from work so we could take a nap while the kids were at daycare. Last night, we went to bed at like 8:30. Starting to get the picture?

It could be worse. It’s not like she’s screaming her little head off or anything. She’s just not interested in sleeping. Too much to do I guess.

I had started to write a lengthy post but then The Girl decided tonight is also going to a night of little to no sleep. As I type, The Wife is holding her on the couch and probably scowling because it’s my turn to stay up all night with her. Guess I’ll try again tomorrow.

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• The Boy’s class took a field trip to the Blue Bell factory today. He informed me that they make ice cream there and it’s “like fifteen hours away”. (It’s really about a forty minute trip down there.)
• The Girl is getting closer to crawling with each passing day. She can raise her self up on all four limbs, scoot backwards using just her arms and push her bum up in the air using her legs. Once she ties those three things together, she’ll be haulin’ diaper across the house.
• While sitting up with The Girl the other night, I saw a very young Dennis Hopper in an episode of The Twilight Zone. The freakiest thing about the episode was seeing Dennis Hopper as a young man.
• I got really excited about getting some new socks the other day. In my defense, they are fairly nice socks.
• I’ve caved in to peer pressure and joined Twitter. If you’re a twitterer as well, you can follow me if you’d like. I probably won’t tweet much outside of announcing blog posts though. I’m still an old-school chat client kind of guy.
• The Houston Astros are just flat out terrible. An intermittent offense and absolutely no pitching, starting or relief – sound familiar anyone?