Somewhat coherent mutterings of sweet relief

Ava's sleeping.
Sleeptime
ava is finally getting the hang of napping and sleeping in her crib. I am afraid to say that as she is napping right now and i swear i always think i hear her crying even when she isn't!












First weeks...ava sleeps all of the time.
We started trying to put ava in her crib at 4 weeks at the encouragement of ava's dr, Dr. Sams, who said that babies sleep better in their own space. I had heard rumors of those on the other side of mommyhood getting 5,6,7, gasp even 8 hours of sleep, but brandon and i thought these were only rumors made to make us crazy, sleep deprived parents even more crazy.

Well, we thought we would give it a try, however, after being encouraged by ava's dr. So we moved her to the crib the first night. i told him i felt like we were shipping ava off to college. Even though it was only a room away, it felt like 100 yards, not 1!



Ava with her cousin ethan, who is two months older.
All of this drama really did help us with ava's sleep schedule -- the whole process is something like the following, ava's up screaming for food, diaper change, etc.. , we take care of it, she drifts off and then we go back to bed! at first we were up and down 5 times before she went to sleep, now she can go to sleep by herself! i am still amazed!