After my wife and my son went to bed, I watched a bit of TV.  At about the time that I was set to go to bed, my wife called me from upstairs and said that she can't get the baby to sleep.  She has had a rough couple of days (two kids at home, me at work), so now I am sitting up with baby for a while.

We watched two episodes of "Mary Tyler Moore."  (We have one more that we can watch tonight.)  He's being good in his bouncer for now, but I am sure that he'll be up for a cuddle soon!

Baby isn't sleepy:

Here's something interesting that I learned today:

One year is slightly longer than 365 days.  The extra six hours is accounted for with a leap year, but there is still eleven minutes of lost time that has to be dealt with.

By the late 1600s, this extra time was beginning to change the way of life in Europe.  Planting -and other seasonal- schedules were thrown off.  At the time, Pope Gregory decreed that ten days would be struck from the month of August in order to get the calendar "back on track."  (Actually now that I think of it, that's why the Russian calendar is a few days off.  Maybe this stuff isn't new to me.  I just forgot it...)

Apparently some people in Europe were mad about the change in the calendar because they either missed birthdays (or other important annual events), or they felt that they had actually lost those days.

That's just one of those things a person learns teaching school.

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