TRAPs for the unwary or how I paid dearly for an extra hour of sleep

Usually, Kiki gets up between 6:30 and 7:00am. I go to bed around 11:00 - 11:30 counting on this fact. Sunday is my morning to get up Kiki while my wife sleeps late. At 5:45, blood curdling screams were heard from Kiki's room.

"#$%&!" I muttered under my breath.

"Do you want me to get up with her?" My wife asks. [TRAP!]

At this point we should pause. As you can tell from the title of this post, said question is a TRAP. The only correct question under any circumstances (as I would later learn) is "no, I'm happy to get up with her - you keep sleeping, honey!"

I did not say that. Instead, I used my Socratic law school training and answered a question with a question:

"Do you want to?"

Of course she didn't. But I had several things working against me.

1. Kiki had had a rough night, waking up screaming when we got home, and had thrown up the day before for the first time and I knew my wife was worried about her.
2. It was 5:45 in the morning. I am not my best at 5:45 in the morning.
3. We had gone out for dinner the night before and I had enjoyed a cocktail or two.

So without further word, she got up with Kiki, and I drifted off to sleep my extra hour thinking what a fantastic wife I had. In contrast, she spent the hour simmering her anger into a white hot ball which I was hit with as I groggily stumbled downstairs.

Now, arguments could be made on either side as to who was right and who was wrong, and I suspect they would be split down gender lines. Suffice to say it was an unpleasant morning.

I managed to get back in her good graces by taking Kiki to the grocery store and letting her nap for an hour and a half, but that's a post for another day.

Lesson learned: If your wife offers to get up with your child on "your day", DO NOT under any circumstances take her up on the offer. TRAP!