Well, Duh! Part Dos

Another "Duh!" moment last night, when contemplating El Burrito and the Great Crib Wars (which are tapering off, but not totally over).

Since lately he's usually awake when we put him to bed, we leave the light on. Also, because when he's fighting the idea of sleeping, he may sometimes play in the crib (when he's not crying pitifully and loudly). So we don't like to leave the poor boy sitting in the dark crying; it's not quite as pitiful when the light's on.

It dawned on me last night, for some reason, that he'd probably sleep better if we finally got off our rumps and hung up his night light (okay, it's a wall light, and ours is a crescent moon instead of this star, but still). You know, the one we've had since he was born, that his favorite aunt got him at Ikea and brought all the way from Georgia, along with the matching star-and-comet mobile? The one that uses a little 40-watt or smaller bulb. Because the light right now, duh, probably isn't conducive to sleeping. It's the floor lamp that we had in that room back when it was an office/library/general "stuff" sort of room. The floor lamp with three movable heads (standard college-dorm lamp), and 3 150-watt-equivalent CFL bulbs in it, because this place has lousy light and I needed to see what I was doing on the PC, bills, etc.

What can I say? The Burrito has always been pretty good about sleeping anywhere and everywhere - noise and light haven't bothered him (which I attribute to the nights in the nursery at the hospital). He's slept through doorbells, dropped pans, and the installation of a peephole in the door 8 feet away, complete with electric drill. Although not the vacuum cleaner.

So, today or tomorrow, we will clear a path to an appropriate wall socket, because "his" room is still about 70% storage and 30% his, and the nearest socket would put the cord right in the reachable-from-the-crib zone. And this weekend DH & I will be hanging up a certain wall light and matching mobile.

And I will continue to feel like a twit because it took this long to realize it.