Tick Tick..

Remember the "hot bomb" guy on Grey's Anatomy.  This was years ago, the episode after the Super Bowl.  Coach Taylor on Friday Night Lights played a bomb squad guy. Meredith Grey handed him the live bomb and he walked carefully away, slowly...quietly.....moving ever so slightly, and BOOM! Done. He blew up. Literally. Kinda like some scene in Hurt Locker.

I think my baby is a ticking time bomb when we want to lay her in the crib at night.  It's SO funny the different ways that Josh and I have figured out on how to lay her down without waking her.

There's no "putting herself to sleep" at this point, we feed her swaddled and rock her to sleep, this doesn't take very long, but the transition from glider to crib is an ART I tell you. A precious art form.

Josh says he spreads his huge hands as wide as we can on her back side and head....keeps her completely level.  He carefully stands up from the glider, keeping a slight rocking motion so she won't know he's left the chair... He's a tall guy, so he speads his legs apart very wide in front of the crib to get lower with out changing her degree angle in his hands.  Oh and dont forget the squeaky floor board RIGHT next to her crib, avoid stepping on that at all costs.

He lowers, her lowers her...she stirs... he stops, holds his breath... she sighs again and he's safe for now.  He gingerly places her down, but leaves his hands there for a minute, not a second shorter.  One minute.  Ok, he thinks the coast is clear.

He slides he huge hands out from under her, so very slowly.  He pulls his hands up and lets out his breath, she looks so peaceful, so sweet.  He backs up slowly from the crib, because you never know.  He shuts off the bathroom light and checks her one more time, but forgets the pesky floorboard. "CREEEEEK."

Two wide dark blue eyes pop open.  She frantically looks right, swings the head left, and looks right again and lets out a small squeal.  She's now kicking her legs.

BOOM.

 Josh's head hangs as he gathers the ticking time bomb, and rocks her once again in the glider.