Friday, November 10, 2006
Bad nights
We've had a few bad nights this week.
Ever since we introduced solids a few weeks ago, Henry has been up at least once each night. He eats and then goes right back to sleep, and the entire exercise doesn't last more than 25 minutes. But he had been sleeping through the night on a fairly consistent basis, and we want to break the midnight snacking habit. So we started last night, and it took 2.5 hours and many tears for him to get back to sleep.
On Wednesday night at about 11:20 p.m. we heard a loud popping noise outside. Mike thought it sounded like a transformer blew, but we still had power and I don't think we live near any transformers. We didn't investigate, but we should have - because 10 minutes later there was another loud popping noise outside, and when we did look out the windows at the front of the house we saw that our next-door neighbour's car was engulfed in fire. The car was parked on the street, and the street along the curb in front of our house was also on fire. The flames were at least chest-high. It was garbage night, and the neighbour's garbage was on fire too. We ran to get Henry, call 911 and get out of the house. As we dialed 911 the fire trucks pulled up in front of our house. Henry and I went to the backyard and waited for the firefighters to bring the blaze under control and we were sure there was no risk of any further explosion. Henry was wide awake, but was not at all alarmed. Later, when he awoke again at 2 a.m. I took a look outside to see what was happening - the fire trucks were gone, but there was a police car in front of our house. And in the morning the car (which was completely destroyed) was gone - no word yet on what the cause was.
We hope for nothing but sweet dreams tonight.
Ever since we introduced solids a few weeks ago, Henry has been up at least once each night. He eats and then goes right back to sleep, and the entire exercise doesn't last more than 25 minutes. But he had been sleeping through the night on a fairly consistent basis, and we want to break the midnight snacking habit. So we started last night, and it took 2.5 hours and many tears for him to get back to sleep.
On Wednesday night at about 11:20 p.m. we heard a loud popping noise outside. Mike thought it sounded like a transformer blew, but we still had power and I don't think we live near any transformers. We didn't investigate, but we should have - because 10 minutes later there was another loud popping noise outside, and when we did look out the windows at the front of the house we saw that our next-door neighbour's car was engulfed in fire. The car was parked on the street, and the street along the curb in front of our house was also on fire. The flames were at least chest-high. It was garbage night, and the neighbour's garbage was on fire too. We ran to get Henry, call 911 and get out of the house. As we dialed 911 the fire trucks pulled up in front of our house. Henry and I went to the backyard and waited for the firefighters to bring the blaze under control and we were sure there was no risk of any further explosion. Henry was wide awake, but was not at all alarmed. Later, when he awoke again at 2 a.m. I took a look outside to see what was happening - the fire trucks were gone, but there was a police car in front of our house. And in the morning the car (which was completely destroyed) was gone - no word yet on what the cause was.
We hope for nothing but sweet dreams tonight.
