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souvlaki Last night the baby woke up around 1:30 am. I told my husband to let him cry a little but he couldn't take the fussing so he got up and scooped the baby out of his crib and started playing airplane with him! This pissed me off. If we want to encourage the baby to learn to fall asleep on his own this is a major no no. Sometimes my husband will heed my warnings and stay in the bed, but will do something really silly like sticking his legs up in the air, "So the baby doesn't feel alone", he explains. Or farting, "That's for you souvlaki!" (NOTE: the baby's crib is a mere two feet from the left side of our bed). That's his nickname for the baby, souvlaki. Leave it to a Greek to nickname their child souvlaki! I didn't have issue with this at all, I thought it was actually cute, until he started referring to his penis as souvlaki as well. "You want my souvlaki," he would say to me once the baby was asleep and he wanted sex. "I thought the baby was souvlaki," I said. "He is." "Well I'm sorry but you can't use that name for your penis if it's the name you're going to use for our son." "Why, the souvlaki doesn't mind," my husband argued, just to bother me. He loves to bother me. Anyway, let me update you on the progress I've made with the baby regarding his sleep habits. For the last couple of days, after seeing the Super Nanny, Jo Frost promote her NEW BOOK on the Rachel Ray show, I took her advice. After you put the baby down to sleep, she said, check on him as soon as he starts to fuss. Console him. Then leave. Each time you go in to console your baby after, your waiting time should double. This didn't sound so bad. I figured I would give it a try. That afternoon I put the baby down, he started fussing a couple of minutes later, so I went in to console him. Then I left. Waited four minutes. He continued fussing, so I went back to console. I was prepared to go back in after eight minutes but low and behold the little bub fell asleep! I was shocked! At first I thought it was a random thing, but it happened again and again and again. One night I showed my husband how effective it is and he too was amazed. Put the baby down to sleep at 7:36PM and by 7:53PM he was asleep. So when my husband rushes to pick him up in the middle of the night when he wakes up you can imagine my frustration. "You're ruining everything," I tell him. "You're teaching him that if he cries and doesn't go back to sleep he'll be rewarded by having daddy play with him." My husband doesn't care, he just flashes me a smile and starts singing to the baby, and walking him around the apartment. This went on for an hour and a half before I finally told him to get his ass into bed because he's got to work in the morning and the baby needs his sleep and so do I! Then I took the baby in the living room and bounced him to sleep, while singing to him. I feel bad. I don't mean to snap at my husband. I know it's his way of making up for lost time. He's away from the baby all day and then only gets a couple of hours before he goes to sleep at night. But here's the thing, I'm concerned he's going to end up playing the good parent to my bad parent. In other words I'm going to have to be the one to lay the groundrules and my husband will always be the one to break them. Both parents need to be on the same page in order to raise a child properly. He'll quickly learn that daddy can be manipulated and ignore mommy's rules. I know how it goes because it was the same way in my house growing up. But my father's softness had nothing to do with love, it was all about indifference. He really didn't want to be a parent to begin with, so "whatever you want". ******** Sex last night on the sofa took on new heights. I straddled my husband riding him like he was a piece of exercise equipment and surprised both of us with my rigor and enthusiasm. Best sex we've had since the baby was born! I was all over his souvlaki like tzatziki!* Like Rachel Ray would say, "Yummo!" ___________________________
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