alpha dad

a week ago lori and i suffered the accusation of "accidental parenting". whereas sears and brazelton keep an open ear to family beds, forced naps, sleep in a stroller, laisez faire, whatever works for the parents AND baby. the baby whisperer don't play. one night crawling into bed at 4am after giving a bottle to AOW - lori had bottle duty the night before, and I the night before - I said, "wait a minute we don't give the baby a bottle in the middle of night anymore." lori was up an hour later with AOW, this time for good. she pulled out the baby whisperer and that's when we got the bad news - we were accidental parenting.

i read the chapter on toddlers and took in the sobering news too. this little girl had taken advantage me...very cutely i might add.

so we took to undoing the damage blaming the move downstairs of 2 months ago on AOW's acting out. like the guy who took his kids to Venezuela in the book we opted sleep on the floor when she would cry for a few more nights. talk about suckers. it worked but i couldn't help but feel like she had one up on us again. so last night i got alpha with her.

after a discussion about how it was time to sleep, laying out her lovey, and setting her constellation turtle to green, i locked eyes with her. she looked away, looked the other way, looked at me around the way, then we locked eyes again. repeat 2 more times and then she came crashing down face into her lovey for 3 more hours of sleep. game on.

we'll see what comes next, until then i'll just be wondering in anticipation, anxiety, a bit of fear. not so alpha of me...