It's only Thursday.

Oh gosh, this baby thing has finally caught up with me.  I'm POOPED and I don't mean in the stinky diaper kind of way - but we could talk about that too if you like.  No?  Ok, onto my baby story.

Lucy is an awesome sleeper.  She gives us some kind of indication that she's tired - like eye rubbing or general crankiness and we throw her little body up over the stairs and she quiets right down.  KIDDING.  Dad or I pick her up for a snuggle as we gently carry her to her room.  The routine varies a bit, she might get a story (Good Night Gorilla !  LOVE IT)  or simply move into the wardrobe change.  A new diaper, pj's and miss thing is zipped up into a sleep sack.  We will be blanket free until after 6 months or when the weather finally gets cold. (Wait a ding dong minute, it is still cold!?)

After she's appropriately dressed and bundled we simply put her in the crib turn on the rain sounds.  As an aside I would like to give the maker of the iPhone application with the pounding amazon rain a big wet kiss.  It has been an amazing gift to our world.  Lucy might fuss for a few minutes, but then she relaxes into her pretty pink floral sheet and she's out.   Daddy (who returns to being Jason at that point) and I will sit down for dinner, pick up the house, watch tv or whatever until it is time to move our base of operations upstairs.

Usually, Lucy will sleep for about 5 or 6 hours and then need food.  If she goes to bed early - 6:30 being what I consider early then she will wake up in the 11pm to 2am range.  She's like my Grandpa Parkey,  asleep at 6:30 awake at 4am and as a bonus, spits food while she eats.  Anyway...the closer it is to 2am when she wakes up the better because it increases the likelihood that she won't be up until 6am (our own wake up time.)

Last night, she was up at 11:30 - down by 12:15, and then there was a wardrobe malfunction that resulted in the swaddle unit of her sleep uniform being bunched up at her face. The part of the sleepsack that binds her arms is not attached to the backing and she can wiggle her arms free from the bottom which bunches up the wrap around her face. This woke her up at 3:00 am.

It would have been VERY easy to give her a bottle of formula and put her back to sleep.  However, we are getting to the age (3 months!) where a middle of the night feeding isn't required.  At night time, 5 hours should be the interval.  So, through the glory of marital partnership and baby monitors we let her put herself back to sleep without a bottle - for the first time.  It took an hour, but it worked.   There was a lot of discussion while we were doing it if we were doing the right thing. It's hard to hear her cry and know we CAN fix it. However, as her cries became more and more spread apart and we could tell she never hit the "Dammit Momma, I'm *&%() HUNGRY" stage we knew we were on the right path.

All that work was great but at 5am when she awoke again she was genuinely hungry - so we were up. 

I need a mommy nap.


As I was searching for an image to borrow to show I was tired I ran across plenty of pictures of parents faking their sleep with their little baby.  But, these folks... WOW  look at the angle of their little one - they are genuinely knocked out.  So cute!