Friday Cute Shot

These are the images we keep in mind in the early morning hours when we should all be asleep.

We Are Clearly Doing Something Wrong

After a glorious peak for most of October that involved Lucy regularly sleeping for 5 to 6 hour stretches (7 hours once!) and waking up only once a night, the sleeping situation has slowly devolved.

Those four weeks were heaven, I now see in retrospect.

We went from one waking to two, then to two and a half, then to three. Two nights ago, Lucy had already used up her allotted 3 night wakings by 2am.

Last night, she wouldn't even go back to sleep after her first waking/feeding at 11:30pm, and at 1:00 we finally broke down and brought her into the bed with us. (Shaggy had a midterm today at 8am and we just didn't have the fortitude to match wills with her all night.)  Through it all I had been saying to myself, "At least we haven't gone back to co-sleeping!" But then we did.

Certainly at some point I'll be able to sleep more than 2 hours at a stretch again, right?

If anyone has any advice or words of commiseration, feel free to share in the comments!

4 Month Checkup

Behold! The tallest baby in the world.

We went in for Lucy's 4-month checkup yesterday (a week early since we'll be in Virginia when she actually turns four months). In the words of her pediatrician, "You're either raising a basketball player or a volleyball player."

Still tall and skinny, here are her stats:

• Weight: 13lbs, 7.5oz (54th percentile)
• Length: 27.5 inches (100th percentile)

I didn't even think there WAS a hundredth percentile. Does that mean she is the tallest baby of her age in the whole entire world? I was beginning to question whether I am actually her mother, but my mom reminded me that I too was a long baby (though not THAT long), and we all know how that turned out.

Ol' Giggly

Well Lucy 's mom sure knows how to make her giggle!



Amber sings Lu an old favorite from COLLEGE. Dad is still working on his comedy routine. He heard that babies don't pick on dry humor till about five months, anyway.

Which Celebrity Do YOU Look Like?

Okay, so this one isn't technically a celebrity.