daddy the sleep master
Posted by kyden on Thursday May 13, 2010 Under Uncategorizedearlier this week, mommy went to texas and left me and daddy and koda all alone. it was the first time that mommy would be away overnight. she was worried.
she worried that i might starve because i didn’t eat much the last time she went away. she worried that i would be hungry and scared at night if daddy didn’t hear me when i woke up to eat. she worried that daddy would be tired and grouchy if he did hear me when i woke up at night.
well, guess what really happened. i went to bed around 7:30pm, as usual. i woke up to eat around 1am, as usual. but instead of waking up every 1-2 hours after that, i SLEPT UNTIL MORNING! mommy couldn’t believe it. she was sure that i had woken up several more times during the night, and that my cries had fallen on (daddy’s) deaf ears.
so when mommy came home around 11:30pm the next night, she was prepared to feed me in about an hour, like usual. but 12:30… 1:00… 1:30am rolled around, and i didn’t wake up! when i finally woke up at 2:30am mommy was so happy to see me. all she wanted to do was hold me and kiss me, but all i wanted to do was eat. mommy said i looked like a hungry hippo frantically searching for food in the dark. i was starving! it had been 7 hours since my last meal — that’s the longest i’ve slept in my entire life. and after i ate, i slept straight through until morning. mommy was completely floored.
mommy said that she doesn’t know what kind of voodoo, torture, bribery, or jedi mind tricks that daddy used on me, but she’s not asking any questions. he managed to train me to sleep through the night with only one feeding — in just one night! mommy said that she should go away more often and what other kinds of magic daddy can do. but she would miss us too much 
(ironically, mommy was never all that worried about koda, but maybe she should have been. he didn’t eat anything for two whole days while mommy was away. he was so hungry that he gobbled up an entire bowl of food as soon as she got home. then mommy refilled his bowl, and he scarfed that down too. poor koda.)
May 14th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
what stuffed animal are you sleeping with Ky? Did you sleep well last night, too? Or did Mommy jinx it by writing a blog about how good you are sleeping? ;P
May 14th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Oh my gosh, I can’t believe your mommy still feeds you. Your teeth are really growing in, look at them in that pic!
May 16th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
hi auntie barb! my stuffed animal is a blanket and a bear all in one. his name is bernie (it said so on the tag). bernie helps me sleep every night
when i was little, i used to try to suck on his nose because it is sort of shaped like a nipple!
cross your fingers!
we’ll have to wait and see if mommy jinxed my sleep schedule. last night, i woke up twice instead of just once, but we’re all hoping that was just a fluke
and yes, my 7 teeth are really big and sharp now. mommy can’t believe that she still feeds me, either. but one of the great things about having so many teeth is that i get to chomp on real food instead of eating pureed mush. i have been eating asparagus, zucchini, cherries, pears, apples, and all kinds of yummy stuff.
May 19th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Hey Kyden…Since Bernie helps you sleep, my mommy told me to tell you to tell your mommy that she better extras in case this one gets lost…. Is that why my mommy has so many pacifier’s for me? They magically seem to appear in the car, in my crib, in her room and in the family room….hmmm :O)
May 20th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
thanks for the tip, matthew! but bernie was a gift, so mommy doesn’t even know where to get more of him. that’s okay though. mommy wants me to learn to sleep on my own like a big boy. tough love, huh?