Late night... Again

So I'm hanging out late night with Nathaniel at 2AM. So I've given up on getting Nathaniel to fall asleep. It's now 2AM and he is so wide awake. I'm so envious of Lauren who is with my other son Mark sleeping in the bedroom. Once again, he fights to stay wake while I fight to get get him to sleep. Earlier today he put up a fight when I tried to get him to take a nap around 3PM. He won that battle, although he eventually he passed out on the floor around 7pm.

I'm still amazed. When he does want to sleep he'll just crash anywhere randomly.

I guess I have no one to blame but myself. You see,When I was a boy I would refuse to sleep. What's that old saying? Something about whatever you did to your parents you will also have to deal with, only worse. I now understand why my mother laughs when I tell her about my battle to get him to sleep early.
I think Nathaniel is starting to feel sorry for me at this point. He's combing through my hair with his fingers as I'm writing this.
I've tried several things to get him to fall asleep, but hs victories outweigh mine. I'm open to suggestions. Feel free to share your stories.

Teething Woes

Lauren & Mark Plus 2: Teething Woes: Teething, just the word alone sends shivers down the back of any parent. My youngest, Mark, is teething. What does this mean for me, a very ...

Jinxed myself...

Well I went ahead and jinxed myself...
rI did a heck of a lot of bragging to everyone I would speak to, about how my son Nathaniel was such an easy baby. I should have braced for the worst. You see my Nathaniel turned 2 back in June. It was official, my little bobbler had graduated to toddler. Him becoming a toddler also marked the beginning of what most parents would call his "terrible two's" phase. I can say that "terrible two's" is a name that hardly sums up what has been going on with this kid. He has become a ruthless tiny terrorist, so from here on this phase will be known as the "Terrorist Two's"!

Gonna need lots of coffee....

So Nathaniel was really tired so I let him take a nap around 5pm last night. Around 8 I was concerned that he wasn't waking up and it would wake up in the middle of the night. Lauren convinced me to let him. She was sure that he would sleep through the night, I wasn't. 10pm came around and guess who comes strolling out of the bedroom and ready to play. Yep you guess it, Nathaniel did. Lauren took the baby to bed and left Nathaniel with me. I tried to get Nathaniel to go back to bed but I was in for a long night. Finally I succeeded in getting him  to go to sleep. Victory! Or so I thought, I realized then that he had won for it was now almost 5am. So now it's Saturday morning. I was awakened with a invite to a birthday party. A children's party, which would also be this afternoon. Im going to needs lots of coffee. Café Bustello your going to be wind beneath my wings.

Oh NO, They're made of people!

So my son Nathaniel loves Vienna sausages. They're up there when it comes to his snack selection. This isn't a big deal but what he calls them is kind of disturbing. He calls them people... Yes, he calls them people. Some might say that I'm a bad dad for letting him think that Vienna sausages are people. Well the truth is that I did try to correct him several times. I even tried to teach him the Spanish name for sausage, which is salchicha. The name salchicha is a fun word to say and it evens sounds silly. I hate to admit but I'm repeating the name salchicha to myself several times as I'm writing this. Who wouldn't want to call it that? I'll tell you who...Nathaniel, that's who. So I tell myself to just let him call them people. It's not like he really thinks that Vienna sausages are made of people... Or does he? 

How it all began...

I'm just a regular guy who hasn't had a full nights sleep since 2011. In 2009 I decided it was finally time to grow up. In November I proposed to my wife Lauren. We agreed that we would take it slow and enjoy the engagement. I knew that my life was going to change so I thought that I could plan it out. We would get married and wait about two years to start a family. Boy was I a fool to forget that life is full of surprises. 2010 came around... New job... New apartment... Lauren's pregnant. Yes, Lauren was pregnant. So much for enjoying the engagement. 2011 came and Nathaniel was born... Lauren and I tied the knot. We decided that we should wait to have more children at this point. It was a year of many firsts as a family... Our first Halloween, first Thanksgiving, first Christmas and we would bring in the new year with a surprise. Lauren was pregnant again. 2012 began like a roller coaster ride. Lauren suffered from Hyperemesis Gravidarum which made things tough throughout the pregnancy. Nathaniel was such a easy baby (except for the fact that he would never sleep). June came and he easily transitioned from baby to bobbler (that in between phase from baby to Toddler). August came and so did my second son Mark. Lauren and I sighed with a gasp of relief. The worst over and everything from here on out would be a breeze, right? I can't say that I can easily answer that. I can say that I've learned to roll with life's surprises and that it's been an experience that I wouldn't change for anything in the world. Well maybe I would change one thing; maybe just a little more sleep.