Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation has a number of side effects, including failure to blog. I hope to add more pics and updates in the near future, but right now it's taking everything I've got to keep myself hydrated, nourished and relatively clean while keeping the little man all of the above plus happy in between his sporadic 40 minute naps.

Other side effects include inability to finish sentences, crankiness, tears, really bad hair, occasional lapses in personal hygiene, seriously flawed wardrobe choices, generalized mild insanity and, ironically, total and complete insomnia. I've gotten so out of whack that I can't even sleep when given the opportunity. So out of whack that sleep aids that used to help don't help. At all. I lay down and I hear the baby crying - even when the baby isn't crying. It's like there's a soundtrack of his cries that plays in my head all the freaking time.

Many thanks to my Mom and Dad who came down to help out this past week and give me a much-needed break. But while I got rest from dealing with the baby, I still didn't get much sleep - certainly not because they weren't willing to do whatever they could to let me sleep, but just because I can't. Mom even took over for a night of baby duty, and I did manage to string together a few hours of sleep with the help of my old friend Ambien and some earplugs, but not even a full night's worth when I had the chance. I woke up in the middle of the night and just tossed and turned 'til morning. What is wrong with me?

And so that is why I am blogging at 3 a.m. I decided I might as well be semi-productive in my sleepless state. As luck would have it, the baby's been sleeping now for the last 7 hours - his second longest stretch ever! Could we have a record by the end of the night? Could be, but it doesn't really matter to me because I can't sleep anyway. I really wish I'd taken that last half an Ambien...

But I know what you really want are pictures, so while I'm lacking proper brain function to put together clever commentary, here are a few of a little guy we like to call "the cutest baby in the world" (except for yours, of course):

And here's the whole family (minus the turtles, who couldn't be bothered to come in from the pond) celebrating the Longhorns' victory over the Sooners - Hook Em'!

Still sleeping - go, Reid, go!!!