I feel like I have been feeding this kid constantly for the last 24 hours. He has been awake most of the day since 5 am, and has been wanting to eat at least half of every hour of the day. I think I've gotten maybe an hour and a half break at one point in the day, but the rest of the time he has been a hungry hungry boy. He has been awake today more than ever before. Usually he is awake for a few hours in the morning, and then sleeps most of the day and then is awake for a few hours in the evening. Today, he got his few hours in the morning, took a very very short nap, then was awake all afternoon, then took a short nap before his evening awake period. Now it is just after nine and I was hoping that after his long wakeful day, he would be exhausted and go to sleep early and long, but alas, he is still wide awake. At least he is happy. He looks around at everything, especially lights, and people. For some reason he likes to look at the ceiling fan in the family room. It's never on, and only in the evening are the lights on, but I frequently find him looking up there all throughout the day. I don't even know if he can see that far yet, I kinda doubt it, so I don't know what he looks at so often. Right now he is lying on my lap looking up at the computer screen. That probably isn't very good for him... all well. I would lie him down and let him cry himself to sleep, but he seems so wide awake, I don't know if that would work. Occasionally when he is very sleepy I can lie him down and he'll cry for two minutes tops and he'll be asleep, but I don't think it would work now. And now he decided he needs to cry, so I guess I better figure out why.

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