Different scales

Last night my wife and I were watching Buffy Season 3 when I heard a crying from upstairs. I headed upstairs to find Oliver sitting up in bed. I picked him up and rocked him back down to sleep. Then I lay down with him which woke him up, but then he settled back down after a few more tears. As I was heading downstairs with a Castaway "I have made fire!"-type exaltation, it hit me. My wife does this every night and sometimes multiple times in the same night. But this time it was me.