a story entitled: DH *tries* to help (long)

Let me begin with an aside: DH is a wonderful father and husband.  We split almost all the household duties and kid wrangling.  That being said, he's not spent a lot of time alone with the two of them and doesn't necessarily know our day to day routine.  Let's begin the story:

I've recently found that Lizzy will take her longest nap of the day in the mid-afternoon IF I put her down around 12 let her sleep for an hour or so and when she wakes up I just keep her swaddled, nurse her, and lay her right back down.  She'll usually sleep another two hours after that.  This happens to be the same time Drew is napping so it's a glorious few hours to myself.

Today DH was home for lunch and Lizzy woke up a little earlier than usual so I was still putting Drew down for his nap.  I heard her start to squeak and DH did too.  He poked his head into Drew's room (where we were reading, one of my favorite parts of the day with him!)  and said "I'll get her, you finish with him."  I said, "just remember I"m going to nurse her and put her right back down."  He nodded and hurried off.  As I finished reading to Drew I thought, "how awesome, DH is probably quietly rocking her so I can take my time with Drew - I don't usually get that during the day!"

Well I put Drew down and head over to her room where I see the swaddling blankets in a jumble in the crib and DH is no where to be found.  I worry that something is wrong and hurry downstairs.   There's DH, watching Sportscenter and holding Lizzy on his lap. 

"What are you doing down here?"

"I was worried she might cry and make it hard to settle Drew down for nap.  I wanted you to have plenty of time"

"Didn't you hear me say I was going to put her right back down?

"Yes..."  

He paused as he started to understand.  He just didn't think about the fact that unwrapping her and bringing her downstairs wasn't really conducive to the "fall right back asleep" plan.  Then came the profuse apologies.  Of course she was wide awake and there was no hope of getting her back to sleep and DH's lunch was over so he had to leave immediately.  There goes my down time!

I'm really not  upset - it's more comical than anything.  If I've learned anything with 2u2 it's just to roll with the punches.  Besides, she was only up for 45 minutes or so and she's back asleep now - it'll just be a five nap day instead of a four nap day.   I know that DH was trying hard to help - in this case he just didn't realize that he was actually making things harder.  Men!