Tonight, for the first time since he’s been home after our vacation, Aidan let me put him to bed.

Since Gwen and Aidan arrived home last week, Aidan has been extremely cling. With Gwen.

In fact, all attempts by me to put him to bed were met (initially) with almost frantic screams: “No, Mommy! No, Mommy!!!” He would physically push me away and go into almost hysterical crying. He wouldn’t give me hugs, and for many days he wouldn’t even say “Goodnight” to me.

But it’s been slowly getting better, as we return to routine. Last night I got to read him a book, but Mommy had to read him a book afterwards, and then she put him to bed. But tonight, I did it all by myself! Changed into jammies, read the book (Down on The Farm by Merrily Kutner, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand), and put to bed without a single tear or cry for Mommy.

Maybe I’m forgiven.

And tomorrow we stir the pot by trying to go to the drive-in.

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Aidan (while eating breakfast, suffering serious jet lag and having been up since 2:30 AM, and therefore having watched a lot of TV this morning): Watch more baby crack?

Me: …

What have they been teaching the boy while we’ve been apart?!?

PS:

OK, I know, it’s been 3 weeks since anything’s been posted.  Between the vacation and the forced Mythtv upgrade (serious time zapper) things have been busy.  I intend to recap the vacation sometime in the next few days.

PPS:

Yes, I know that you can’t reach the Funnyfarm right now.  I don’t know why.  I’ll try to troubleshoot that in the next few days too.

OK, on the sleep thing, we didn’t make out so well last night. The boy woke a little bit pretty much every hour, and his level of wakefulness increased each time he woke.

By midnight, he was fully awake again.

Gwen brought him into bed with us tried singing to him. His response was:

Mommy! No singing! Stop it! Enough! “N”-“O”! No more!

Yes, he spelled out “no” to make sure she got the point.

Later, he struck up a conversation that went something like this:

A: Mommy, what sound does a horse make?

G: When a horse is asleep, he sounds like …

A: What sound does an elephant make?

G: When an elephant is asleep, he sounds like…

A: What sound does a rhinoceros make?

G: … (stifling laughter) …

A: What sound does a pirate make?

A: “Arrrrrrrr!!!!!”

Fortunately we got him back into the crib with another bottle (oh, he’s going to be wet this morning) and he seemed to go to sleep after that. I hope we can get him to sleep soundly earlier tonight!