More aspirin please

We struck out again last night in the sleep department. We had to stay up a little later than usual to watch the Home Run Derby because Prince was in it and put up the highest total in the first round and eventually won the thing so of course we had to watch that. The Brewers are clearly on their way to the World Series. Junior got up at 11, 12-2, 5 and woke up for good at 6. Yikes. This is getting old fast so we put the call into the doc today to see if they could help us out. The conundrum is he is fine during the day so he doesn't have some underlying issue like teething or he would be a mess during the day as well. Incidentally he slept for 3+ hours yesterday at daycare. What am I paying for here?!?! The doctor thinks his 9 meals a day is shorting him so we're going to up his food another meal. He's getting a dose of milk in the AM upon waking, then breakfast of rice and some Frankenstein mixture like prune juice and milk mixed (total pleasure when he spits that back up on you), then off to daycare where he devours three more bottles plus one feeding of fruit. He comes home gets another dose of milk and then a meal of veggies. Right before bed yet another dose of milk. Starving? Really? Well, first we're going to feel h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e if he's been waking up all night because he's hungry. I mean absolutely terrible. And of course there's that whole parents of the year award that would be out the window so that's no good. They told us to add another feeding at daycare and if he wakes up tonight to start throwing food his way as in adding two more meals getting him up to 11 a day. If this keeps up you can forget the linebacker position he's going straight to the offensive line (shorter career, less credit, not as much money) as in not ideal. Well, we really want him to sleep through the night (and us too!) so hopefully this solves our problem even though we would feel like the worst parents on Earth. Okay maybe not the worst. There are those parents rearing serial killers and the like and clearly we're not that bad right? But pretty bad to miss those signs. We have contemplated, "Is he hungry?" before but he doesn't go for the feedbag so we figured it can't be. Maybe we were wrong. Hopefully, we can cut the coffee down to four cups a day with the help from the doc.

We leave you with a happy child busting out his surfer look. Check out that hair. If the surfer thing doesn't work out he can fall back on hippie.