Wake him up and engulf him

We asked our resident baby whisperer, Dorothy Waide, for her best advice onresettling a baby who really should still be sleeping. All babies stir in their sleep and sometimes they wake up at this point of stirring even though they need more sleep. Babies need good long chunks of sleep. Not just cat naps here and there, but a routine of regularly timed sleeps of at least an hour and a half during the day.

―Elliot, you can't die. Wake up please Elliot, wake up.‖ ―You killed him. You killed my son,‖ Mr. Patrick bawled. Panic started to engulf him. ―I'm going to. Phoenix yelled in anger, hitting Jeremiah in his chest, trying to wake him up as him – engulfing him, feeding the ball of power inside him as it grew stronger;.

I was just stirring awake when my mother spoke these words, it was with these words she roused me—that and the soft clink of window curtains being rolled away, and the sudden warmth of sunlight invading the dark room where I slept. I rolled over, lifted my head from the pillow, and saw her silhouette leaning down over me, her enshadowed face framed in the brightness of a new morning as it brimmed in a large window behind her. Only, waking from forgotten dreams to the light and heat of this new morning—and seeing the sunshine sparkle in radiant points throughout the windowpane in what I now assume must have been tiny imperfections in the glass—I misunderstood her words completely. That is, I took them literally.

Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Wake Up, My Love. Since you've been away I've trailed the wake of the clouds Just crumbling clay That lay in the shade that enshrouds Depending on the ifs and mays.