Sleep, or lack thereof

I havent written about this in awhile, but Benjamin STILL doesnt sleep through the night. I still think its an urban legend that babies can sleep through the night in a crib by themselves, and at this hour of the night would be much more likely to believe in bigfoot than my child sleeping more than 3 hours at a time.

Right now he is putzing around the living room blabbering and playing like its 9am. Its not like we didnt try to make him go back to sleep at 1am. Dillon had him cry for about an hour and a half- he would fall asleep but then stir and wake up 5 mins later. After a few rounds of that we decided something else must be the issue. Tylenol, teething tablets, ambesol. More crying. Milk. Awakeness. Dirty diaper. Maybe that was it. Its not the first time he's woken up to go to the bathroom...

But he usually passes out pretty quickly after that. I guess he is just waiting for his next sleep cycle to arrive and as soon as he shows any sign of tiredness I'll scoop him up and try to rock him back to sleep.

As with other things in parenting, its hard to tell if you are doing something wrong, or if your child is just doing his own thing. You have these expectations about how things should go, but you ultimately don't have control over this other person, you can just guide and direct. I guess thats how God feels about us sometimes. I go in and out of periods of being frustrated, angry, patient, humored and just plain confused about why Benjamin does what he does, but its good to know that God's ultimately got it under control.