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The baby is asleep 30 minutes before closing time

Great. The child who refused to sleep all day is now fast asleep in my lap, and it’s thirty minutes before closing time.

My great fear when this happens is that she will get a good nap and then be awake and fussy for the +30 minute commute. I’d almost rather wake her now and leave work early, hoping she’ll fall back asleep once in the car.

Of course the best case scenario would be 30 minutes of sleep now followed by 30 minutes of sleep in the car, with just a brief interlude in the middle.

But experience tells me that’s unlikely.

Joy.

Sometimes babies get easier

The Bug is now sitting pretty reliably by herself.

She’s been able to sit for several months now, but you always had to keep her from flopping over and hurting herself. It is way easier to coordinate her now that you can plop her in the floor with a toy and know that she won’t end up bonking her head.

This morning I was able to set her down near our front door while I finished getting ready for work. When I turned around after stuffing her clean diapers and changes of clothes in the car, I could see C happily sitting by herself, perfectly safe, entertained, and easy.

Baby naps

Like just about all babies, the Bug’s sleep patterns have changed a lot over the nine months that make up her life. Lately, Katie and I have found that she’s been taking really good naps at home on the weekends, although she’s nursing a lot at nights to make up for not being with her mama during the day. At home, the Bug often gets at least one nap a day that is several hours long in addition to other shorter naps.

Elsewhere, things are different. At my work, where her bed is in the corner of my office, she tends to sleep a consistent thirty minutes in the morning, and her afternoon naps vary from nonexistent to an hour or so.

The real cuteness happens at my mother’s house, though. The Bug is blessed to get to spend a couple of days a week with her Mimi. On those days, she rarely sleeps unless held. You can try putting her down and she will fuss, but if you can let yourself go (pick up a book, watch television, take a nap), she will sleep in your arms for two or three hours.

I just love being able to kick back and hold the baby as she sleeps. There are few things greater than holding a lightly snoring baby in your lap. I alternate between jealousy of the time my mom gets with the sleeping Bug and wanting to apologize to her for C keeping her from getting anything done while she sleeps.

Mostly it’s jealousy.

Photo: tastes like chicekn

Photo: pink & green on blue

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The difference a year can make, part II

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April 28, 2008

She stands!

She likes the swing!

The bug has had a good week at the office, despite our worries about April 15th. Yesterday morning, she hung out with her dad, and in the afternoon her Mimi took her to the park, where she loved the swing: