Sleeping Through The Night

Yes, I'm sleeping through the night now, and have been for about a week. They say it's 9-10 hours. I can't tell time yet, so I'll have to take their word for it.

I know mommy and daddy have been changing my feeding times over the past few weeks. I could never figure it out, but knew that they'd feed me when it was time. I can always eat my hands while I'm waiting. I'm a patient little guy.

Sure enough, after that last food of the evening, daddy (sometimes mommy) takes me upstairs to my room, lies me in my crib, then swaddles me tightly. I don't like it while he's doing it (I cry sometimes), but once I'm securely wrapped up like a burrito, I feel so safe and warm. He turns on a CD of relaxing baby music, and my "stars". That's a cool deal - it's a turtle, and when you turn it on it projects real constellations all over my room, in one of three colors - amber, green, blue. Daddy always puts on the blue one to supposedly relax me. Personally, I find looking at stuff around the room more relaxing, but if it makes him happy, I'm all for it.

Then he stands by the crib stroking my hair, going "shhhhhh", and before I know it I'm starting to relax and drift off to sleep. Mommy does the same routine if daddy's late getting home, but I think daddy does it better.

The next thing I know mommy's standing next to my crib. I'm usually awake by the time she comes in, but I don't need to cry because she's right there (monitors work wonders, especially video monitors). She gets me up, changes my diaper, then I get to eat again. After that we sit in the rocker in my room and she lets me look out my window. It's dark at 6:00 a.m., but if we sit there awhile, I can start to see things outside. Then she lies me in my crib again and disappears somewhere for awhile. I amuse myself looking at my bear, my wallpaper border, anything to pass the time.

Back in she comes, with clothes on instead of "pj's" and her hair brushed, scoops me up, and downstairs we go where she lets me watch the Christmas tree lights while she takes care of my dog. She says it takes about half an hour, but that's when they go for a walk too, which is most mornings. She'll have to figure out something else to amuse me after the tree's gone. She may be ready for that, because some mornings she puts me in front of the TV and I watch a Baby Einstein DVD for 20 minutes or so. My favorite so far is Mozart, but the Beethoven one is pretty good too.

So that's my story of sleeping through the night, and the routine mommy and daddy have going for all of us. It works for me, and I get enough uninterrupted sleep that I'm good for the day, with about 3 naps. All this playing is exhausting ya know. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!!

Now This Is Cool

I've been trying to get through to mommy and daddy that I'm bored as all get out lying here watching my mobile day after day. I mean really, I'll be 3 months old next week. Ok, they got me these cool Baby Einstein DVDs so now I can sit in my bouncer and watch one of those in the morning. I like em ok, but they're not long enough. And I can only sit in front of the Christmas tree for so long, smiling at the lights.

Whoa, did I get a surprise yesterday. I finally got through to them. My activity mat arrived and I'm pumped for it. I cried a bit at first - didn't want them to know how excited I was. Sadly though, I couldn't stop from drooling at all the cool stuff on that thing. There's even this thing that helps me get out my frustrations and strengthens my legs at the same time. I heard them call it a kick plate or something. All I know is that if I kick it hard some really cool sounds happen that make me laugh. Mommy seems to like hearing me laugh, so as long as I'm having fun I'll keep that up for her.

My only problem is that I'm so interested in everything that I get tired, but I don't feel like sleeping during the day - something good might happen while I'm snoozing. But the parents are insisting I nap during the day, so I pretend to be sleeping. I'm really thinking about all the pictures I saw in my books. I don't know what any of them are, but the colors are so bright now. Wow, did you know that if you smile at something that the parents will continue to let you look at it longer? I found that out when we went out to see the neighborhood holiday lights. Now those are colors.

More of my clothes have disappeared. I've heard mommy say something about a baby recycling box, and that I'm too big to wear them now. I don't get it. I like some of those clothes. Oh well, different ones show up to replace them. Ahh, I'm sleepy - better have a nap.