The Lippens Democracy

So here's how it works in our house. We have a little democracy. In the middle of the night...majority rules. If one baby wakes up, but the other two are asleep, then the awake baby has been outvoted - we just soothe him/her back to sleep until someone else wakes up. At that point, two babies are awake, so the third one is outvoted and everyone gets up to eat. That's just the way it works. It's only fair.

So the other night, Haley woke up, but Tyler and Elli were still asleep. She was outvoted so I gave her a pacifier. Soon after that, Tyler woke up, too. According to the rules of our little democracy, it was time to feed them all, but that night, I was REALLY tired. And in my stupor, I decided that I should get a vote. And I decided that in the case of a tie, MY vote broke the tie. Haley and Tyler voted for food, Elli and I voted for sleep. Elli and I won. So I gave Tyler a pacifier and I re-inserted Haley's. I went back to bed with a little chip on my shoulder. "Oh yeah babies...I'm the boss here. I just voted you back to bed. Take that." Which was immediately followed by Haley's famous window shattering, floor shaking, nerve tattering screams. You see, I may have the vote that breaks the tie, but Haley...she has VETO power. Every time. So now the rule is...whatever Haley wants, Haley gets. Vote on that, mom!