For the first time in a few months, on Monday night @SamanthaMurphy left The Jonah and me for a boys’ night.
I had it all planned.
We would eat dinner while watching two new episode of Top Gear: The Lost Season on BBC America. We would then read Peter Rabbit Giant Treasury &emdash; a collection of Beatrix Potter stories my parents read to me. Then one of us would fall asleep, hopefully the younger of we two.
Turns out there were other plans. After the new teething moan we have learned, he decided to go completely of the deep end like I have never heard. After many attempts to figure out what might sooth and calm him, I gave in. He was crying and screaming. I started crying. It was quite the debacle. Finally I tried to give him a bottle. He found a little bit of time to take a few sips in between the most blood-curdling, ear-piercing, shattering screaming and crying. Finally most of the way through the bottle he fell asleep.
He had such a peaceful look on his face after the complete meltdown that I decided I would try to take a picture, send it to his mom with the caption “Started out really rough but now we&aposre sleeping.”
The camera shutter noise my horrible phone makes woke him and he began to cry again. I was able to walk and rock him back to sleep.
The next morning, he was all smiles and giggling like nothing had ever happened. It was clear that he was upset his normal night-time routine was not the same, his gums were hurting, he wanted his momma, he was hungry, he wanted his mom, his routine was not the same and on and on and on.
So Marco Arment, congratulations. And welcome to fatherhood. :)
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