Me wantee sleep

This whole baby-sleeping-in-his-own-bed thing is for the birds. Sure, he is getting a little more sleep, but I am so zonked. Last night he was up at 11 and again at 4. That wouldn't sound too bad to the uneducated observer, but I had JUST fallen asleep at 10:45. Ohhhhhh so painful. And then, nursing him at 4, I made a rookie mistake and forgot to check his diaper first. It had reached critical pee mass and needed to be changed, so of course Isaac became wide awake and refused to go back to sleep. I insisted poor Dad take over from there, and Dad sat up with Isaac from 4:30 to 6:30. Nobody in our house is getting any sleep. It sucks. How can we rectify this problem before Dad and I start buying Uzis and peppering our neighborhood with bullets from the rooftop?

I picked up Isaac today from daycare, and he was sleeping. AGAIN. But the situation has shed some light on his mildly narcoleptic school-day behavior vs. his anti-sleep at-home behavior. His school has everybody's beds on the floor, in this small nook of the room away from everything else. When I arrived, there were four babies on their beds in this nook, including Isaac. Three such babies, not including Isaac, were screaming their heads off. These babies were within three feet of him, yelling at the top of their lungs the entire time I was there, and Isaac is out cold, completely oblivious. It's a good thing for his health that his mom at least has not developed a similar ability as he...

This gave me an idea. I put Isaac in his crib tonight, completely awake, and then ran around the upstairs, while he started gathering energy for his Fuss-Ray, throwing my dirty laundry in the washing machine. Laundry-Central at our house abuts his room, so anything that is going on there can be heard (and even felt) in his crib. I start the washer, and almost instantly, Isaac is asleep. I fear he may indeed be his father's boy -- Dad is incapable of falling asleep without some background noise (his slumber-inducing sounds of choice are cartoons on TV). Maybe we should get Isaac a dream machine or something.