Niles loves L Part 2

L had a hard time getting to sleep tonight. He was cranky and beside himself; I think he's got teething pain and I know he's got ear infection pain. Normally he goes to the crib, goes to sleep, voila.

Tonight, even when I got him asleep in my arms, he would wake when put in the crib. Sleep, transfer, cry. Sleep, transfer, cry. Sleep, transfer, cry, scream.

At this point, Niles jumped into the crib, and I was too preoccupied by the screaming (ear-splitting, shrieking) baby to do my normal scoot-scoot-scoot noise at him.

Sleep, transfer. Niles leaps out just as I am putting L down--because he is stretched out exactly where L sleeps. Exactly. And L stays asleep.

I don't want to sound like the crazy cat lady, but I think Niles was warming up the crib for L.

Happy birthday, Jake and Niles!

It's been a fabulous decade.

Niles hearts L

So L looks like C. A fair amount, actually, although so far he does have blue eyes. (For now--A seems to suddenly have green eyes now. Who knew?)

Niles loves C. C is his person. At the end of the day, Niles wants to be in C's lap. When C wakes up and his feet hit the floor, Niles runs to him and starts meowing at him. When C leaves a T-shirt on the floor, Niles rolls around in it in a frenzy of joy, looking as high as he does on catnip.

Niles loves L. Loves him. Licks his tiny mostly-bald baby head, curls up next to him on my lap, sleeps in his crib and changing table pad, and rolls around in L's car seat in a frenzy of joy.

I'm sure I could believe that Niles is now used to babies so this is how he shows his acceptance of L into our tribe, but I'm pretty sure it's because L looks like C, or gives off some pheromone like C, or somehow reminds Niles of C. Seriously.