the joy of omissions, baby version

So after a weekend of trying to keep our sanity from slipping between our slick fingers with the two boys at home all day, it was finally Sunday night, 6 pm, bedtim for Liam. Oh happy day! I grab him and his water-filled sippy cup and head downstairs, where we've actually gotten him into the habit of just being put in his bed awake and walking out and closing the door behind us.

I get down there, he's ready for bed, putting his head on my shoulder, and I go to lay him in the bed. As soon as his head hits the pillow (he's totally subdued, thank the good Lord), I feel that the pillow is wet. I think, oh lord, did he pee in the bed earlier or something? So I pull him back out and put him on my hip. The entire pillow is soaked, along with half the sheet. I smell it, and thankfully, it's not pee. Just water. I am like, how in the L did so much water get in his bed?! Did Aidan throw a cup in there or something?

I had to wander around the entire downstairs to get the stuff fixed. Get a new pillow from Aidan's bed. Get a thick blanket to line the sheet so I don't have to change the entire sheet with a steadily second wind-ing baby on my side. Lay it all out. By the time I get all that together and lay him in the bed, he is PISSED. So I've just expended much more energy than was necessary and have made him truly awake, giving him hope that he's going to get to play longer.

I come upstairs and say, "Man, Liam's bed was soaking wet!" Tony says, "Oh yeah, he spilled a bunch of water in there earlier."

Okay, two notes:

1. He cannot "spill" water. He drinks from spill-proof sippy cups. Unless this eighteen-month-old pulled mouthful after mouthful of water from the cup and into his mouth and then systematically spit them into various parts of the bed, one after the other, that cannot be possible.
   
2. Couldn't Tony have (a) changed the bed or (b) at least told me about it, so I could have avoided the angry infant at bedtime?
   

Just a note for future fathers… A soaked bed is not something that can be kept secret. Even in the desert where we live.