It's still too dark in my room. Parent turns on hall light, lies down with middle boy, stumbles back to bed. Parent fills sippy cup with water, hands it to boy, turns dining-room light on for good measure, stumbles back to bed. I wet my bed. Oldest boy grumbles in his bed on the other side of the room, turns over, slams his pillow over his head.
Parents stumble back to bed.
I can't go back to sleep. Parent walks him back to his room, lies down with him, falls back into fitful sleep. Beside snoozing parent, oldest boy tosses restively. Remaining parent heads into nursery to retrieve all five missing pacifiers from behind crib, rocks angry baby till calm once more, retrieves missing co-parent from oldest son's bed, stumbles back to bed. Parents rise to begin effort of stumbling through another day.