Lunar eclipse

September 28, 2015

Stellan stayed up late enough to see the very beginning of the eclipse, and then went to bed all jazzed about the idea that I'd wake him up a couple of hours later so he could see it at its peak.

So a couple of hours later I carried him (because he was too sleepy to walk) downstairs and out to the balcony and pointed at the red moon and got a genuine "WHOAH!" Then a short pause, then "Dad can we watch this from inside the house?"

So I carried him inside and set him in a chair by the window and turned off all the house lights and sat down next to him and he said "Dad. This is... really... This is REALLY... disappointing." So I carried him back upstairs and he announced "I'm NOT going to do this to MY kid." and immediately fell back to sleep.

Eclipse, schmeclipse; you don't mess with a guy's circadian rhythm