Sleep, How I Missed You

As the father of two children in diapers, my sleep patterns tend to get mixed up on occasion.  Recently, the 6 month old has been waking up around 5:30AM.  Not crying mind you, just babbling.  The kid is happy, but a little noisy.  The problem is when he wakes up his 23 month old sister.  Once she is awake, everyone is awake...for the day.  In an effort to maximize sleep, we have to retrieve Carter before he wakes Myra Grace.  This has been going on a for a few weeks now, so I had put myself into quite the sleep deficit.

Both kids are typically asleep by 8PM and last night was no exception.  However, after putting the kids to bed, instead of taking care of some tasks around the house or entertaining myself in some fashion, I went straight to the couch.  Asleep by 8:30PM.  I slept there until about 2AM, then made a beeline to my bed where I picked up where I left off on the couch.  Except for a minor interruption by Carter, I slept until 6AM.  By my fuzzy math, thats about 9.5 hours, where I'm used to getting about 7.  I'm definitely "caught up" on the sleep now.