Life with a toddler is a constant education in the butterfly effect…the idea that one small action can have long-term and wide-reaching impacts. For instance, last weekend we went on an overnight trip to Papa and Nana’s new house in the hill country – it is a 2-hour drive and my tiny charge somehow managed to stay awake through the entire ride and then for the remainder of the day. To put this in perspective this is the first time since he was born 638 prior that the child has not slept for at least 2 hours during the day. Last night was Wednesday night – 4 days after said sleep disturbance  occurred. The concept of normal sleep still alludes my tiny tot……he fought bedtime for an hour and was wide awake an hour early this morning (which means 4:45 am). We were able to keep him somewhat sedate until around 5:35 am by allowing him to poke us in the face repeatedly identifying facial features (‘mama nose’ …’dada eye’…) and also allowing a tiny car to

This leads me to believe either the new house in the hills has some kind of long reaching anti-sleep mechanism attached to it that haunts all toddlers who visit or that overnight trips however well prepared and executed are a bit much for my guy 🙂