Made it Half Way

Brent got home safely from Grand Rapids yesterday evening. So happy to have him home! Anna was in her bouncy seat when he came in the door. She smiled so big and her little legs just started kicking away. "My Daddy's home!!"

We are working on getting Anna down in her own room at night. She has been sleeping in her pack-and-play next to our bed. Very cozy next to Mommy. But, it's time to move her to her own room and into her big-girl crib. Last night we decided to give it a go! First night away from Mommy's side and into her own bed in her own room. Quite a step - both for me and for Anna. I rocked her to sleep and said her usual prayers for her ... with an extra prayer for a peaceful night kept safe in her room. And she made it half way through the night! She usually gets up once or twice through the night still, so she kept to her schedule. She slept from
9:00pm - 1:30am. I went down and fed her and she went back to sleep .... for a few minutes. Then I listened to her talking away on the baby monitor and fussing a little bit. So, I left her and hoped she'd fall back to sleep. 10 minutes later, she's still talking. By now it's about 2:30am and I decide ... well, we did good enough, I'll just bring her to our room and we can both go back to sleep. I picked her up from her crib and she spit-up. Ay-yi-yi. So, into new jammies for Anna and a new shirt for me. And she's smiling and thinking this is great fun to be up so late! 3:30am, she's tucked in her pack-and-play and I'm back to sleep. Well, we made it half way!