So after a long day of no naps at daycare and a full evening of fun at the town reservoir AND a relatively late bedtime (9:30pm).. Benjamin woke up screaming at 4am. I suspect based on the cry that he had a bad dream. I went and brought him out to the living room and rocked him for a bit before attempting to put him back down. More screams. I then went and got him a cup of milk. By this time, Shiela had retrieved him from his baby-jail and had him in our bed. He drank most of the milk.. had a bit of tylenol "just in case" and then chilled out in our room for a while. Shiela tried to move him back once and he resisted by practically crawling UNDER me. About a half hour later, she successfully moved him back to his bed and he slept peacefully for the remainder of the early morning.

That left me at about 8:30AM with a sleeping baby and a work agenda that wasn't going to wait for him to sleep in. It's not uncommon for him to wake up either after hearing my shower or morning activities or at the latest, when I rub his back to wake him up.

This morning.. he slept straight through a diaper change and getting dressed. Here is a picture of him still sleeping with his jammies on... yes.. his blanket is over his head.



Now he's dressed... still asleep...


Finally... starting to wake up...


Now fully awake and being a goof-ball...


About 6 minutes after waking him up, we were in the car on our way to daycare. We arrived at daycare about 10 minutes after he woke up. Here he is on his way in...



You may not see him at first.. look for the fuzzy red head behind the plastic bench.. Ben wanted to play outside. It took quite some time to talk him closer to the door (without chasing him around the yard.. which I *HAVE* done before.



Finally!