SLEEP

Oh my gosh. I forgot to mention this, and this news is SO big, I just couldn't wait to post it. It's huge. Talullah had her last feeding at about 9 pm last night while we were sitting in the front yard gathered around the fire pit w/ the Downey's making smores and fantastic conversation. Nick finally put her in the crip at about 10, but she had been fast asleep for awhile. I must have woke around midnight and went to check on her, as I usually do. Paranoid, over bearing mother, I am. She was fast asleep with a little smile on her face dreaming of milk and her mothers arms, no doubt. I went back to my bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. The next time my eyes popped open was at the sound of my baby's cries from her room down the hall. First thing I noticed... it was light outside. I shook my sleeping husband to have him check the clock and found that it was 5:30 in the am. By FAR the longest stretch of sleep I've gotten in months. I mean, I've been getting up three times a night since three months into the pregnancy... to eat, to use the restroom, to find or never find a more comfortable position, to feed the baby, to make sure she's breathing, to pat her back to sleep, etc. My sweet little girl went a full 8 hours without eating. She's growing up so fast.