Sleep - how I missed you old friend

Well, we did it...ok maybe premature, but Hope has slept through the night all week long! She was sleeping 6-7 hours and a few 8 hour nights a few weeks ago, but then I think she has a growth spurt or something and started getting up every 3 hours. It is really hard to go backwards once you know what it feels like to string more than 3 hours of sleep at a time. It was a little hard to get her back on track, but we are doing a new routine with her for night and her daytime naps and so far she has been a rock star. I have some growing pains going 8 hours without feeding her, but I guess that comes with the territory. Seriously, I cant believe in high school they made us carry around flour sack babies. They thought that was the tough part about being a mom... Give these girls 3 hours of sleep, a potbelly, soreness from feeding and a few other unmentionable symptoms of pushing a baby out and it will do wonders for the teen pregnancy rate.

It's been a great week so far with Hopie. We took her to a community dinner where we learned about ways to play with your infant. We got to take home a book and a puppet (may or may not have been included). It was really fun to meet other parents of infants and compare notes. Hope and I also went to lunch with Shelly and Eliot. It was really fun to see them play together! We are off today for our first out of town trip to Jim and PJs. It only took 30 minutes to load the car - not too shabby!