July 6, 2000 - Thursday
Last night Harry stayed awake well past his usual bedtime, likely due to sleeping in the car on the commute home, and his mother finally just put him in his crib to fall asleep on his own. It's a normal thing for parents to have to do, I suppose, but we haven't done it before. Yet, Harry quieted right down and didn't say a thing about it A parents' delight, I'm sure.

But, I had been on the phone and missed it and curiosity got the best of me. I went into to check on him. It's hard to know whether he was sleeping very restlessly or was still awake, because he'd completely buried his head under a blanket. He was still breathing without any foreseeable difficulty, but I thought maybe that wasn't the best position for him, all things considered, and removed the blanket as delicately as possible. And, I don't know if that startled him from sleep or whether he was already awake and just playing possum, but he quickly turned over with a big ready-to-go grin. That was not really what his mother was hoping for and he stand up even later.

The interesting thing was that this morning I found him sleeping in the same position with the blanket over his head. It was a chilly night by summer standards and maybe he was rectifying the situation for himself, but he doesn't quite have it down yet.


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