umm.. still napping?

it's been 2 hours and 45 minutes! longest nap ever... wake up... wake up little baby... it's time to play.. and keep trying to get that crawl down!

sleeping through the night!

finally - at 8.5 months..! daddy kicked mommy into the guest house 2 nights ago... after a night of crying for an hour and a half whenever mommy put you back in the crib. daddy was gonna do cry it out again.. he got all set up.. turned up the monitor full blast, kept all the lights on in the bedroom.. slept propped with tons of pillows.. set his alarm to go off every hour... just so he wouldn't sleep through your crying (daddy's quite a heavy sleeper). but lo and behold what happens? you sleep from 8pm to 6pm without hardly a peep.

we all thought it was a fluke.. so daddy kicked mommy out to the guest house again last night. you woke up and cried for about 10 minutes at 3am.. but fell right back asleep until 6am. and now you're napping in your crib as i blog... going on past 2 hours already! let's hope this becomes the norm!

No More Nursing.. and Crib Napping!

Little Audrey.. I stopped nursing you completely about 2 weeks ago.. and you're doing just fine! Kinda sad 'cause it seems like you could care less if it was boob or bottle.. :-) I just gave you a bottle one day and you took it! And you're fattening up with the formula! Let's hope you are not any lower than the 25th percentile in weight at your 9 month appt. And now mommy can drink wine all the time again! :-)

Up until now, mommy had been holding or carrying you for all your naps. But yesterday, I tried putting you in the crib.. and again, you were a champ. Went down beautifully... just turned over on your left side (your favorite sleeping position), grabbed your blankie and dozed off. Alas, you only nap for 30 minutes in the crib.. but hey... it's probably better sleep than the 2 hours you get on my back as I wash dishes and run around the house with the tv blaring. Today is day 2.. and you are on nap #2 of the day... so far so goo.. it's been 25 minutes.. you typically wake up at 30 minutes on the dot... we'll see.... tune in tomorrow...!

longest sleep stretch ever so far!

wow. last night little baby girl slept from 8pm to 4:10am! that's an over 8 hour stretch! i woke up a couple of times, anticipating her waking.. and at 3am.. had to go into her room to make sure she was still breathing :-). let's hope this becomes a trend... now - how to get you to sleep later.. waking up at 5:30/6am is too early for mommy... i'd love for you to sleep til at least 7am! you used to go 7:30 to 7:30.. but then again, you'd get up 10+ times between those times.. so i think i'll take the 5:30am right now.. ;-)

back from LA!

ah.. gone only for 2 nights.. but so glad to be back home! had dinner with tom and amy, and met with some people about getting some print/commercial gigs for little baby audrey :-) they said they like her cheeks (daddy!) and ears (mommy!). well.. we'll see if we can get any gigs... if so, we'll be back down in LA lots lots more!

in LA for the day

jason and i flew down to la for the day... had dinner with tom and amy tonight to celebrate their engagement.. greece in october - yay! baby girl really is a good little baby... sleep is hard... but she's pretty mellow. she slept most of the plane ride... then during dinner (at a restaurant that doesn't even have high chairs or booster seats!) she held out so well.. eventually fell asleep in my arms she was so tired... oh, and today for the first time, she started sucking on the pacifier! kinda late to start a bad habit... but hey, if she wakes up multiple times at night, and keeps on biting me when she nurses.. then she's not hungry and just wants to suck... so i'm all for the pacifier! anyhoo... now i'm in the eensy weeny hotel room with baby in the crib in the bathroom while jason is out drinking with his bud..

First Night Out w/o Baby!

6 1/2 months after baby.. jason and i have our first date night... on valentine's day! i can count the number of times that baby has been with just daddy on my fingers.. but she's never, ever, ever been without the both of us at the same time! i was dubious. my parents came over, and jason and i had dinner reservations at the early bird hour of 5pm. not that we don't love our little munchkin, but what a nice night to be able to enjoy dinner by ourselves :-). of course, i wanted to call and check in.. but jason wouldn't let me. we left a bottle, and all sorts of different baby food. we got home around 7:30.. poor little munchkin was tired.. but doing just dandy in my mom's arms. nothing to worry about. and i thought she would be screaming for mommy.. ;-) the tears started when we got home though.. i think it was - 'where were you? why did it take you so long.. i'm tired and wanna go to bed!' now jason wants to do this every week! :-)