Sofa Surfing and subsequent wipeouts

I've developed a bad habit. When the baby wakes up at night, I stumble to the livingroom and turn on the TV for light and watch the early morning news on CBS while he feeds. Since I usually only have an hour or two left of night, I typically just lay on the couch with him snuggled on my chest until DH wakes us up at 6.

My child is officially too big and restless to sleep with me anymore. This morning I woke from a very wierd and vivid dream to his whimpers. A disoriented me found him head first towards the floor with only his feet left on the sofa. He had not hit the floor but was wedged between the sofa and the bouncy chair slowly sliding towards wiping out on the carpet.

I immediately grab his feet with one hand and rescue him with the other. He never woke fully up but snuggled back into my chest and snoozed. I on the other hand stayed stock still and awake for the next half hour until I heard the alarm going off from the bedroom.

Catastophe averted but my lazy sofa surfing mornings are officially over. I knew it was coming but I'm definitely going to miss it. Since I feel like worst parent of the year after this mornings episode I'm not willing to try and stretch it out either. One time is one time too many even if no injuries were sustained and he never woke up enough to remember it!

My baby is growing up way too fast, getting so big and all my little infant joys are being stripped away one by one. ::cries::

Falling out on the Floor

So you know that phrase "fell out on the floor" that usually applies to laughing too hard?

Last night, I knocked a bottle of water off the sidetable while holding my son on the sofa. So I got up to get it and was holding him in the football hold but the water was under the tray table that I keep my laptop on spilling water out on the carpet. So I gently but quickly placed Matthew on the floor so I could reach.

I looked down to this: (in two seconds my son had passed out and gone completely lax and). And yes, I completely left him there to grab my camera as I laughed. Sometimes all the rocking and shushing and lullabyes in the world won't work. You can try CIO....or you can just plop them down on my less then clean carpet and they will pass right out. All is right with the world.