Superhero in training.

As a kid, I was never into comic books. I never collected them. The only time I can remember wanting to buy a comic book was when Superman died, and I was already in college when that happened. (I wanted to read that one because that seemed like a pretty massive event in American history. Turns out, the biggest thing that happened because Superman died was it eventually led to Shaq being in a crappy movie.)

It seems as if has been an influx of movies recently based on super heroes, comic books and/or graphic novels. The movies look fun, I guess, but I have zero history or knowledge of the X-Men or Captain America or Thor (or, obviously, even Superman).

I bring this up because I do believe I live with a superhero. Or at least someone who has the potential to be a superhero. Reese could one day save your city by fighting crime.

Batman defends Gotham from bad guys all night long, then runs a multi-national corporation during the day. Scientific American had an article a couple of years ago where a scientist explained Batman. The scientist points out that Batman does not get enough rest.

Reese is go-go-go during the day, running from this toy to that, usually screaming babble all the while. She has been refusing to nap since we got back from Hawaii a week ago. And now she is not sleeping long at night, either.

She went down around 8 or 8:30 last night. She woke up and came into our room at 1:30. I took her back to her room and rocked her to sleep and put her back in her bed a little after 2:30. She was back in our room at 4, and this time WIDE awake. I tried to rock her again, but she came right back to our room. I finally gave in and let her sleep in our bed/ But she had other ideas. She tossed and turned and made Ripken sketchy (even more skittish than normal). Finally it was obvious she was not falling asleep, so I woke up with her.

She has been non-stop ever since, only calming down when she was in the high chair to eat a banana, toast and drink milk.

I regularly function with absurd amounts of caffeine in my system, but I have had to increase my dosage as Reese practices to become Batman. Teddy Roosevelt is said to have had a gallon of coffee every day. I may lap him just to keep up with my daughter.