For most of the nights this week, Dorothy has been waking up around 2:30am and wanting to be awake for a while. Elizabeth has been getting up to deal with her. Thursday night, she tried waking me up without success, and then got mad at me. It wasn't really my conscious fault, but I was still in trouble. She'd asked me if it was my turn to get Dorothy, since she'd done it the previous two nights. In my still-asleep-and-dead-to-the-world voice I answered "yes." Then she asked if I'd gone to bed late, to which I also answered a more definite "yes." But I didn't actually get up, because I was still technically asleep. Without any prodding from her and/or direct commands, my unconscious wasn't going to get me out of bed. So, silly wife that she is, Elizabeth went and got Dorothy, and put me in the dog house.
Friday night she announced that I was on duty all night. Even for feedings, I was to bring Dorothy to and from the crib, so Elizabeth wouldn't have to get out of bed. I felt bad for her being sleep deprived lately, so I agreed. But Dorothy must have decided she loved her Daddy a whole lot, because she only got up once all night long, around 3am! (Well, technically, twice 20 minutes apart, but it was almost the same thing.) And it had been long enough since her last feeding that she ate again, and then slept until 7:30am! So Daddy fulfilled his duty without being tormented all night long! I win!!
Of course, this probably means my karma is unbalanced, and I'll get hit hard some other way...
Posted by Tom Nugent at August 14, 2004 11:44 AMOddly, the concept of you "getting hit" was exactly what I was thinking as I got to the end of your story....but not by karma (you should be lucky that Elizabeth isn't violent by nature)......
Eliz.....banging out the rhythm line to "We Will Rock You" continuously and annoyingly will work on Tom.....it was my trick for waking him up for the last two years of college (he would have slept through every eary class he had if not for me....the only thanks I ever got was a dirty look and some mumbling under his breath)....just cue it up, put the head phones on him, and hit play when you need him to fetch Dorothy.....
Posted by: Tom at August 14, 2004 11:22 PM