My boy, Oliver, is hereby unofficially declared a ‘Daywalker’ - if you’ve never seen the movie trilogy ‘Blade’, then this might not mean much to you.
In the movie, there are people. You know, regular people that sleep at night and do stuff during the day.
There are, of course, also vampires in this particular movie. Those are the people that sleep during the day and do stuff, namely bite/kill people for blood, during the night like any good vampire should.
Oliver, however, is a daywalker like Blade, the star of the movie; Blade is a ‘special’ individual, as he does all the nocturnal stuff that vampires do, but also works well in sunlight. Here’s why they’re similar:
The past couple of days, young Master Rigby has been going almost all day without need for a sleep. (Bearing in mind he’s not a year old, this is a problem!!) Then, at night time, he is *still* waking multiple times throughout the night, despite being 9 or so months old. So, without need for fangs and vampire-like gory stuff, he’s slowly killing his folks off, as we’re outright knackered come the morning. This makes work a bit… different, as I don’t think that the wife and I have ever had so little sleep when Jack was this age.
So, in my eyes… daywalker.
He’s 100% bubbly, playful fun during the day though, don’t get me wrong. And he’s always got a smile for his big-bro, Jack, which is certainly helpful, as Jack does like to show-off in front of Oliver to get a giggly-based reaction from the dribbly tot.
In all honesty, it could be that he’s teething or something. He’s had an ear infection or two of late, so that probably hasn’t helped things, but he is getting to the age of sprouting a tooth or two. I just hope that all this noise and effort means that ten are coming through at the same time, and they’re fully grown adult teeth, as I’m sure I’d be disappointed if there was just one tiny little baby tooth coming through causing all of this upset, as the problem is that when he wakes up, he kicks off big-time and gets himself in a right little state, which takes a while to calm him down.
But Claire and I do consider a night that he wakes just once as a good night. Even better if he goes straight back to sleep immediately after having a drop of milk.
Hey ho. Kids, eh? Just goes to show that you simply can’t use the first child as a benchmark for the second.
