Wake me up before you go go!

The Wee Yin likes to fight sleep as long as she can but I am getting better at calming her and making her relax and drift off into slumber without too much fuss.

Unfortunately, I am also getting better at putting her down in her bed or chair then immediately afterwards I'll sit down on the couch on the loudest noise-making baby toy you've ever heard.

This will happen to me almost everytime. The house can be spotlessly clean and I will alway check before sitting down but unbeknownst to me, lurking under one cushion will be the "Fisher-Price Klaxxon wake-the-baby-toy" and I will literally throw myself onto it in order to make the loudest possible noise!

This is followed by a wimper from the Wee Yin, she makes a face and moves her head from side to side but does not wake up. Phew!! Got away with it!!

She will only wake a minute later when I pick up the "Fisher-Price Klaxxon" without turning it off first and set the whole "Old McDonald Had A Farm" as performed by Napalm Death and the New York Symphony Orchesta off all over again.

Seriously, you cannot move in my house without sitting or standing on something that makes a noise. I have come home late at night when everyone is sleeping and all is quiet only to set off a virtual eardrum splitting symphony of "Frere Jaques", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Old McDonald" all at the same time.

The English version of "Frere Jacques" is of course:

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping?
Brother John, Brother John?
Morning bells are ringing,
morning bells are ringing
Ding Ding Dong, Ding Ding Dong.

SLEEPING? NOT ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!