June 4, 2000 - Sunday
I guess I've seen it many times before - a baby asleep on one of its parents' shoulders while they walked through a store - but it still surprised me that Harry could do the same thing. I'm often calculating his sleep schedule, concerned that he's getting enough rest. There are a couple of reasons why, I suppose. One is because he needs the rest (babies' ought to be getting something like 14 hours of sleep a day), and two, because I know already that a good sleep routine during the day has a direct benefit on how well he, and thus his parents, sleep at night.

When he fell asleep in the car on the way to a store today, I thought perhaps either his mother or I ought to wait with him in the car. It hadn't been a long drive and I figured he'd just fallen asleep so we'd wake him up if we disturbed him. However, his mother and I both needed to look at things inside, so she picked him up. He made it into his mother's arms, face tucked in her neck, and into the store without a stir. We didn't spend too long, maybe 10-15 minutes looking for storage containers for our pending move and for a new lawn mower to keep Harry's future yard in shape, but he was out the whole time. He even made it back into his car seat and on to the next store without waking up. I decided we shouldn't push our luck and pick him up again, so this time I went into the store while his mother waited in the car. But, wouldn't you know, that's when he woke up. Maybe it was too quiet without the car moving, but at least by then he'd slept for a half an hour or so.


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