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Feb. 19th, 2006 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valancystirlingI finally got a good night's sleep. It's about damn time.
The last two nights, I've tried an experiment. Since for a week or so, she's fallen asleep between 8-10pm, I put her in her cosleeper, turned the light off, and lay down in bed next to her. She seemed somewhat tired both nights, but I wouldn't have thought she was really ready for sleep. The first night she fell right to sleep. Last night, she fussed a little, but I reached over and held her hand, and she fell asleep. I do believe we have a winner.
I love how she doesn't have a perma-fist anymore. Now her hands are open all the time, and she reaches out for things. It's especially sweet when she rubs my arm. It's so gentle and caressing...I just love it. Of course, then she slaps me or busts my lip with her head or grabs a handful of hair and yanks. But hey, take the good with the bad, right?
She's still asleep. I should really be taking a shower.
So yesterday I got a good bit done. Made a grocery list, bought groceries, bought a new shower curtain liner, washed half the wool diaper covers, cleaned the mildew off the bathroom walls, bought a wok, made dinner (with Jake's help).
It's been really cold out, but sunny with blue skies. Very nice. Still, I'm very glad to have been spared endless months of winter this year. I am truly grateful for the mild winter.
Is it sick that I'm starting to think about a second baby? Everyone told me it would happen sooner than I could imagine, and here it is. This is not to say I'm planning to get pregnant anytime soon, but we're thinking probably by early summer next year we'll be serious about it. Topie will be a year and a half by then, and add nine months to that...she might even be potty trained by the time the new baby was born. I've been thinking of names (I feel strangely positive it will be another girl) and looking at newborn clothes on various organic websites. This is unbelievable to me. I spent half my labour swearing to Jake and anyone who would listen, that I was NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN EVER EVER EVER. But seriously, it seems like it's just getting easier and easier. Every day Topaz is one day closer to being a real little person. She's well past that tiny newborn stage, which was so draining on every possible level. We have so many things worked out. I feel like, if I had a bit of help, I could do this again.
My throat has been hurting all night.
The last two nights, I've tried an experiment. Since for a week or so, she's fallen asleep between 8-10pm, I put her in her cosleeper, turned the light off, and lay down in bed next to her. She seemed somewhat tired both nights, but I wouldn't have thought she was really ready for sleep. The first night she fell right to sleep. Last night, she fussed a little, but I reached over and held her hand, and she fell asleep. I do believe we have a winner.
I love how she doesn't have a perma-fist anymore. Now her hands are open all the time, and she reaches out for things. It's especially sweet when she rubs my arm. It's so gentle and caressing...I just love it. Of course, then she slaps me or busts my lip with her head or grabs a handful of hair and yanks. But hey, take the good with the bad, right?
She's still asleep. I should really be taking a shower.
So yesterday I got a good bit done. Made a grocery list, bought groceries, bought a new shower curtain liner, washed half the wool diaper covers, cleaned the mildew off the bathroom walls, bought a wok, made dinner (with Jake's help).
It's been really cold out, but sunny with blue skies. Very nice. Still, I'm very glad to have been spared endless months of winter this year. I am truly grateful for the mild winter.
Is it sick that I'm starting to think about a second baby? Everyone told me it would happen sooner than I could imagine, and here it is. This is not to say I'm planning to get pregnant anytime soon, but we're thinking probably by early summer next year we'll be serious about it. Topie will be a year and a half by then, and add nine months to that...she might even be potty trained by the time the new baby was born. I've been thinking of names (I feel strangely positive it will be another girl) and looking at newborn clothes on various organic websites. This is unbelievable to me. I spent half my labour swearing to Jake and anyone who would listen, that I was NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN EVER EVER EVER. But seriously, it seems like it's just getting easier and easier. Every day Topaz is one day closer to being a real little person. She's well past that tiny newborn stage, which was so draining on every possible level. We have so many things worked out. I feel like, if I had a bit of help, I could do this again.
My throat has been hurting all night.
