Wide asleep.

Right now, I am sitting at the computer (obviously, I'm like, typing this) right next to Jake's room. I can hear him talking. Fussing a little. It's midnight. I just put him down. As in, for the first time tonight.

I don't know what to do!

Honestly, I haven't been stressing about it. I've heard/seen so many situations where parents gave themselves so much stress over getting their baby to bed "on time" every night. Lots of tears, lots of frustration, lots of tension between the parents, and that's not something I want.

So pretty much every night we just hangout. All three of us, chilling till like, 1am.

Is that normal?

It's hard because Mark wants to spend time with him.

"Mark, we should try to get him down."

"He's not tired."

"So? We need to try. We need to get him into a routine."

"But look how happy he is!"

Mark will then proceed to tickle Jake.

And I give up. Because honestly, I love our evenings together. Jake is in such a good mood at night and it's a lot of fun.

However, everything is starting to feel... off.

Like, I get him down sometime between midnight at 2am. He's up at 4. Then he's up when Mark leaves for work. Then I just keep him in bed with me and we fall back asleep until noon.

This has been going on ever since we got back from our trip.

Is it teething? Is he still recovering from travel? Am I just a bad mom who lets her kids party all night and sleep all day? Is he always going to want to do this? Should I just put him in his crib at 8pm and say "Go to sleep. Now." and that be that?

What I would give to go back to the days when he would sleep from 9pm to 7am. Stupid teeth.