Patent Pending

For the past couple days, Leah has basically decided that she doesn't like sleeping all that much. She stays awake for long periods of the night even though she's fed, changed, burped, etc. In this state, she's perfectly content as long as one of her parents is holding her, but the moment we try to put her back in her bassinet, she starts screaming her lungs out. This makes her poor sleep-deprived parents most unhappy.

So, here's my brilliant invention idea: it's a crib that fools the baby into thinking it's being held by its mother. It could be shaped like a woman's arms and have a heating mechanism that keeps it at body temperature. It would have to bounce around a little bit like mommy does when she's holding the baby. And maybe you could slip the mom's robe over it so that it would smell like mommy too.

So, any inventors/product design people out there want to fix us a prototype? I haven't discussed this yet with Kathy, but I think I speak for her when I say that we would be willing to pay, oh, approximately a hundred thousand dollars or so for one of these.

In the meantime, a couple pictures of Riley being held by mommy and Leah being held by daddy...