Week 7

It's been a big week around the Cundiff house! Clay is on vacation this week, and we had a LONG list of all of the things we would accomplish. As is typically the case, we've done pretty much none of them. However, what we HAVE done is savored every moment and enjoyed our family time. Since restaurant dining has been a wee bit hit or miss lately, we decided to have some friends over to our house this week. We spent most of the day Monday shopping. We were gone MUCH longer than we had anticipated, but Miss Lila slept the WHOLE time. We did stop to eat lunch, and we woke her up to feed her there, but she wasn't overly interested. After lunch, she went right back to sleep in her car seat. It's SO nice to be able to shop and run errands without worrying about her screaming, but we did pay for that luxury a bit in the night. Since she'd slept all day, she woke up every 3-4 hours through the night. I can't really complain, though, since that one was our fault.

Tuesday, though, I decided we weren't playing that game again! I left Lila home with Daddy while I went to a dr. appointment and running some errands. He had strict instructions NOT to let her sleep all day! Ha! He did a wonderful job taking care of her, and even gave her a bath and got her dressed all by himself! Her outfit had short sleeves, but at least it matched! Go Dad!! Lila did a great job at pacing herself on naps, and she managed to sleep 8 1/2 hours through the night! HURRAY!!

Wednesday, we got out and ran some more errands all together. Clay and I both had haircuts, went to lunch, the post office, etc. Lila did great while we were out and about, but didn't ever really get into that deep sleep. Every time she'd nod off, we'd stop and she'd wake up again. Friends came over at 7pm, and at that point, she still hadn't really had a good nap all day, just catnaps. As you can imagine, she was an absolute exhausted mess at this point. I finally rocked her to sleep and put her in her bed, hoping she'd sleep through our dinner and then wake back up for another feeding before her actual bedtime. I think at this point, though, she was just too tired to even be able to calm down for sleep. She would nod off and get quiet, then start wailing again after just a few minutes. We managed to make it through dinner in relative peace, only hearing her a few times. After dinner, I got her up, diapered, ready for bed, and gave her a nice fat bottle around 9:30pm. We put her straight to bed after that, and did not hear another PEEP from her until 7:45 this morning!! That's over 10 hours, and all new Lila record!! WOW! The whole family woke up refreshed and in a great mood today!!

We got out and about again today, on more fun family adventures. We did some Valentine's Day shopping, picked up some flannel to make MORE cloth wipes for Lila to take to school, ate lunch out, and even hit the mall for some new clothes for Clay. I also may or may not have purchased a knit sock monkey outfit/costume for Lila for next fall. Maybe. But surely I wouldn't have done that? But maybe... Anyway, she did sleep quite a bit in the car seat again today, but not anywhere near as much as Monday. We'll see how the night goes! I told her she didn't have to do 1o hours again, but 8-9 would be JUST fine!