Mama Thoughts

Today my little lady and I hung out together just the two of us all day. I timed her naps perfectly.  She slept 1.5 hours in the am, and then 1.5 hours in the pm. We went for a walk.  We hung out in the living room and played and danced.  She ate some good strawberries from the farmer's market.  She laughed at my singing.  We ran an errand and took the L. She was pretty much sunshine and radiance all day long. She went down for the night at 6:30 without a peep. I'm sitting here while the husband has band practice, and I'm watching Top Chef and drinking a beer.  And I miss her.  How is this even possible?!  I love that little person.  More than I ever thought possible. Being a mom is pretty awesome.  And that's all I have to report.  

So! We made it.  We flew with our little person to San Francisco and lived to tell about it.  :)  She was actually a huge trooper on the way there and back, considering her extraverted tendencies and how she can't sleep when there are exciting people to interact with (I have no idea where she gets this from).   On the way to SFO we lucked out and had a seat in our row that was empty, which we stuck her carseat in and she promptly passed out after feeding for a solid two hours.  Then it was only two hours of lap play and walking up and down aisles entertaining her and the other passengers.  That was actually incredible.   We took BART to Glen Park and hiked up the "hill" (those are mountains dammit), to our place.  Me with the stroller and Yan with two suitcases and a backpack up a 45 degree incline.  Dear lord in heaven I forgot what SF feels like on the tuchus.  We didn't take that hike again, we Uber'd every time.  We're bourgeois.   We brought c

Little lady has hated swaddling for quite some time.  She would get straight up ticked off when we swaddled her and we had to use a safety pin to keep her from kicking out.  That girl has chutzpah.  So... we decided it was time to quit the swaddle three days ago.  We walked with her that night for like 30 minutes and she was showing no signs of falling asleep... she was clearly tired but wasn't having it.  I decided it might be time to sleep train her and Yanik agreed (he always agrees... it's kind of amazing). We put her down in the crib and walked away.  She didn't like it and let us know by screaming her head off.  We went back in in 3 minutes and picked her up and calmed her down, then left again.  Then went back in in 5 minutes and repeated.  Then we left her for 10 minutes... and she was asleep by the end of that time period.  20 minutes.  She took 20 minutes to calm herself down.  Magic.  She slept until 3:00am from 6:30 pm, and then didn't wake up again until