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Getting Mark2 to nap with a little help from Phish...

So my youngest Mark2 tries to mimick his big brother when it comes to everything, including not napping or sleeping. The no napping front is progressively getting worse. It wouldn't be so bad if he would just be calm. We all know that with no sleep comes the onslaught of crankiness. The battle to get him to nap had begun and I losing the battle. My bobbler would nap; I was determined. I tried cradling him, rocking him, swinging him nothing worked. Finally I had an epiphany... I should try using music. If music could tame a savage beast, well why not a cranky bobbler. So I began to sing to him... FAIL! Next I tried playing some lullybyes, that began to make him act up more...  EPIC FAIL!  I wasn't giving up, he will/must nap. I began playing some songs on iTunes. "I'm so Tired" by the Beatles seemed to be working but he was still a bit restless. It was then that I remembered that when my first born Nathaniel would be restless, I played music by Phish. It worked every time, specially when I played Phish's cover of "I'm so Tired". Would this work? I switched from the Beatles to Phish's cover of the song. About 5 minutes had past... SUCESS!!!

You download a copy of I'm So Tired (Live Phish Vol.13) on iTunes 

Lauren & Mark Plus 2: NO NAPS!

Lauren & Mark Plus 2: NO NAPS!: So, Nathaniel's moving into no nap territory. He does NOT want to take any naps, he's only two years old. I didn't think this wo...

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.

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.