Terrible Twos

2026-06-27

Writing this down before having any coffee so please excuse the lack of coffee related grammatical errors. I wanted to write this down quick because I am worried I might forget it, I have a small queue of topics to blog about, right now it is like three topics deep, but this one jumped to the front of the line (making it a not very good queue).

Our youngest got up last night at 2 AM and was crying and standing up in his crib. He was really upset, both my lovely wife Sneha and I got up (she woke me up actually, thank you to her) and we held the baby. He calmed down eventually and we changed his diaper, it was a little wet but not too bad. Then we sang to him and put him back. He doesn’t get up often and when he does usually this does the trick. And he was calm in the crib but as we left and closed the door he started to cry and stand up again. And this was real crying not just whining which sometimes happens, real tears down his cheeks. So we went back in the room rocked him again. This time Sneha took over and she waited in the room with him while I laid down, and after she put him in the crib for a second time she just sat in the room with him and sang to him. I think he calmed down and went to sleep.