Curse You, Daylight Savings Time!!!!

Bedtime has not been going well since daylight savings time went into effect. Jake is not cool with the hour-earlier bedtimes. I have tried putting him in the crib with the hopes that he will self-soothe, but it ain't happening. I usually end up going back upstairs, give him a bottle while holding him in the rocking chair until he is pretty sleepy, and then putting him back in the crib to cry some more before finally settling down and going to sleep. But I don't wanna get in that habit, so tonight I tried just putting him in and going downstairs, assuming the crying would stop after a few minutes. Not so much. He was hysterical for close to 40 minutes. I finally gave up, went upstairs with half a bottle, and was greeted by this angry little man:


According to my parents, Jake gets the same blotchy red face that I used to get when I was a baby. Of course, my parents weren't cruel enough to bring a camera in to a document a hysterical baby. (I saw it as a great photo op. I might as well start saving up for his therapy sessions now...)


So once I stopped snapping and decided to "rescue" him, he took two sips of the bottle (he just had a full bottle not half an hour before going to bed) and decided he would much rather just sit on mommy's lap and play with her big toe. I put him back in the crib a few minutes later, played peek-a-boo with him, and left the room. He cried twice and then fell asleep...at 10:00 pm. (9:00 old time). Can't we just do daylight savings year-round? Pick a time and stick to it! Argh!