We found out the hard way how much Bean loves Mr. Glowworm (I call him Mister even though he is, in fact, pink.) The batteries started to die so that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star now sounded much like an old record player about to bite the dust. When he finally did go we realized that Bean was now fully dependant on Mr. Glowworm's capabilities to soothe her to sleep. I am sure there must be a section in What to Expect the First Year on letting your child soothe herself to sleep, but I must of failed to read it. We scrambled to find batteries in remote controllers (ironically most of them are AAA, not AA) and eventually settled on some half-charged batteries from my camera. Problem solved. Sort of. It actually appears that Bean has entered that stage of her life where she is afraid of the dark and wakes up in the middle of the night crying. I learned two things from this. (1) Don't reintroduce the 2 a.m. feeding. Bad idea. And (2) I wish that I had bought a nightlight for her nursery. So we've just been letting her cry it out (for what turns out to be a whopping 2 minutes) and she's fine. And in the meantime we have restocked our Duracells and Mr. Glowworm is safe and sound in the corner of her crib. (He can't be that bad for her!)
