Feeding Ava

Last night I decided to be a good husband and I offered to get up when Ava wakes up and feed her a bottle so that Meredith could sleep through the night.  Yes, I am always looking for brownie points.  Meredith was excited about the idea and quickly went to sleep.

Well, Ava woke up around 2:15 AM and I quickly got up and put a pacifier in her mouth to see if she would continue to sleep.  That wasn’t working too well, so I decided to feed her a bottle.  In an effort to not wake Ava up too much, I kept the lights off.  So, I am doing this all in the dark.

Meredith had the bottle all prepared and so I grabbed it and tried to get Ava to take it.  I tried a number of times, but Ava wanted nothing to do with it.  I thought that was strange as she normally would take the bottle.  After a while Ava was getting frustrated, so I just gave her the pacifier and she went to sleep.  I promptly went back to bed.  Then she woke up again at 5:45 AM and I could tell she was ready for her bottle.  Again, she wouldn’t take the bottle.  As it was closer to sunrise, there was a little more light in the room and I noticed that the bottle has a small cap on!!!  Here I am trying to put this in Ava’s mouth! 

Once I took the cap off, she drained that bottle and went right back to bed!  My first mistake ever.

So much for trying to be super Dad!