An Experiment

Tonight we try an experiment. Usually Bluet eats around 18:30, has a bath (a description of which may be posted when we get our 5,000 visitor), listens to a story (perhaps 'that's not my tractor' - the attention span is too short for Dr Seuss). Then by 19:00 she is fast asleep in bed.

Bluet asleep in own bed. Note thumb in mouth and essential rabbit

Tonight we are going to go to a birthday party for a friend of mine at work, starting at 19:00. Our plan, such as it is, is to head down there a little early, and let Bluet go to sleep in their bedroom. Then, once we are ready to leave the party, we will try and not wake her whilst walking across the city to the uptown bus. This will fail, but hopefully she won't scream all the way home, disturbing the revellers returning from their nights out. One hope is that this interruption to her sleep will help her adjust to the loss of daylight savings time (American 'British Summer Time'), and thus she will no longer be waking up at 5.30 in the morning. A second hope is that it works brilliantly and we can employ this tactic for future parties.

A good night's sleep restores energy

How could a baby that looks like this be any trouble?

Take me home. now.