Separation anxiety:  a phrase used to describe a baby between the ages of 8-11 months.  This period is designed to truly test the parents’ stamina.  All of the literature states that babies this age are learning object permanence, or will have figured out that when daddy or mommy hides behind their hands, they are still there.  Not so with our little Finn.  An hour after going to bed, most nights, he will stir and need us to go in and rock him back to sleep.  An hour later, sometimes, he will get up again, just for a cuddle.  Strange enough, when Brendan goes in Finn will often not go back to sleep.  Instead, he will soak up all the cuddle time with daddy!  In an effort to save our own sanity…this ends up happening:

They are soooooo cute, right?!