Hallelujah!

It finally happened! MJ slept through the night! Hooray!

Tomorrow she will be two months old. Maybe she wanted to give us a birthday gift? I don't know, but I hope she doesn't try to take it back.

Now we just need her mommy to do the same thing. I have been having these weird dreams the last few nights where I take the baby out of her cradle so she can eat, forget to feed her, and then lay her somewhere in our bed with us instead of putting her back. Of course, I think this is really happening, so I wake up convinced that the baby is somewhere in the bed, and freak out when I can't find her, or wake up thinking I've put the baby on Mike's chest to sleep, and wake up to find I'm clutching the space where I think she should be.

I wake up a lot.

I'm going to try to do the exact same thing tonight that we did last night. She ate at 7pm, then had a bath around 8, and as we read The Going to Bed Book (Sandra Boynton, love her)together, she totally fell asleep in my arms. I tried to wake her up to eat at 9:45, but she refused, so I figured she was ready for bed and put her in her crib. 10 minutes later, she woke up, wailing. Well, duh, that's why you don't ignore me when I try to give you food! I hauled myself out of bed and made her a new rice bottle, which she gulped down in no time. At 10:30 she was in her crib, fast asleep, and I was drifting off in my own bed.

When I didn't hear her, even at 6:30 while Mike brushed his teeth, I felt my heart quicken in panic. She's NEVER slept that long. I started to get up to go check on her, but Mike said he had just heard her grunting and snorting away through the monitor a few minutes before. I looked at him like he might be trying to trick me. (I'm not the most lucid thinker, or kindest person, in the morning.) Then, I heard a little coo myself. Not only was she still asleep, she was sleeping happily! Why fight it? I went back to sleep too, and woke up to the sounds of "I'm awake, take notice" fussing at 7:30. Beautiful.