super-senser

our nighttime routine gets pretty funny at times. noah has been such a dear to start sleeping many more hours of the night than he was at first. for this, we are thrilled beyond words. a little sleep does the body good, right? and ryan and i certainly value our sleep, as i'm sure all you other moms and dads with little ones would agree with! sometimes, though, as i have mentioned before..when we lay him down, he gets really upset. he's a boy who likes to have company around and loves the companionship of someone holding him snuggly. but, alas, this just cannot always be done, so, we lay him down all by himself in his nice cozy cradle and walk away to our own cozy bed, just down the hall (and i really mean JUST..our apartment is tiny!). usually, it will take him a second to realize that mommy is no longer holding him and then begins the crying...some nights, it's only for a minute, other nights it's for 20! when we first brought him home, i said we'd never let him cry over 5 minutes...which is no longer the case. anywho, on the nights that he cries longer, it usually goes like this: cry, cry, cry, silence....cry, cry, silence...scream, cry, scream, silence... and so on. during those moments of silence-which really can be anywhere between 10 seconds and 10 minutes, i find myself trying not to move a muscle...even holding my breath at times, because i'm certain the slightest change of position on my part will be heard by noah, since he's just right down the hall. i guess that means he has the hearing of, say, a dog..because we have a humidifier doing it's thing right near his cradle...and then our box fan doing it's thing right by our bed. the irony is that i'm pretty sure even if he can't hear those little noises, he seems to have a senser of sorts....almost like, "oh yeah, i was screaming my lungs out!" and so he picks right back up where he left off.