Well rested

The doctor suggested half a teaspoon of benadryl as a sleep aid with the warning that it does, on occasion, make kids a bit wired. The benadryl comes with a little cup, not a dropper, so I poured what I guessed to be half a teaspoon in the cup and sucked it up with the syringe we’ve been using to give the Fiendling motrin. He was on Boyfiend’s lap and when I squirted the medicine in his mouth most of it ended up on Boyfiend’s shirt. We decided to try again, using a smaller dropper. Because we weren’t sure if he’d actually swallowed any the first time we decided to give him 3/4 of the dose this time, about a dropper and half using the smaller one. He was still on Boyfiend’s lap and this time when I squirted it in his mouth it ran down the Fiendling’s face. Not knowing how much he’d gotten down we decided that this time we’d just give 1/4 of the dose. This time Boyfiend, still holding him, dosed him and managed to get all of it in his mouth. I don’t know how much he swallowed, whether it was more or less than the full dose, but he fell asleep around 9.30 and when Boyfiend woke up at 6.45 and made a move to go to the bathroom I told him not to move. We went back to sleep and the Fiendling didn’t wake up until 7.30. It was awesome.