Sleep-ease

So tired, but quick post to keep my streak going. Last night, an amazing thing happened, Zoë actually slept ALL night! If you read my last post, you know that Shannon was working the night shift and when that happens, I'm on Zoë duty all night. Because we cosleep and Shannon nurses Zoë at night, I usually don't have night-feeding responsibilities. However, when Shan works nights, I take on the feedings and usually have to walk Zoë until she falls back asleep. Then, repeat. I was all prepared to wake up every two hours to feed her. While I was getting Connor to sleep, Yin yin helped by getting Zoë to sleep at around 10pm. So, Zoë was put into her bassinet and covered with a blanket. I set up my ice bucket with two prepared bottles and placed it next to the bed. Then, I got ready for night time and went to bed myself. I was in bed and asleep around midnight.

3:30am - I was a bit confused when I groggily awoke and looked at the clock. 3:30? I peeked into the bassinet. There was Zoë, sound asleep! So, I wasn't one to complain so I went back to bed.

4:30am - Woke up again to silence. This time, I was starting to get a little worried...I stuck my head into the bassinet next to Zoë's face and was assured by the sound of her breathing and tiny snoring. OK, everything seems ok and again, I'm not one to complain that my baby is sleeping, so back to bed for me!

5:00am - Take a peek in and she's still asleep but she has moved across the bassinet. But, I do another paranoid breathing check anyways and everything checks out. Quietly roll back into bed, trying to avoid any loud squeaks so that she doesn't wake up. Back to dream land!

5:30am - OK, seriously! She's out all night and I'm still waking up and not taking advantage of a full-night's sleep?! Still sound asleep but she moved back to the other side of the crib again. She coughs gently and I mentally prepare myself to feed her. But, it's a false alarm, so I try to get a few more minutes of sleep before my alarm goes off.

5:45am - Awake to another quiet cough and this time she stirs. I'm ready coach! Put me in! Nope, false alarm. Eyes shut again.

6:00am - Another cough, another stir, followed by more stirring. Then, finally that tiny little sound ... "aah"....followed by a deep breath and....showtime! So, I finally get my butt out of bed and give her a bottle.

6:15am - She finishes the bottle and is back asleep, but now my alarm just went off, so it's time to get up and start getting ready for the day.

So, there concludes my magical night. The first night alone with Zoë where she slept all the way through the night! 10pm - 6am! However, I'm still exhausted because I still woke up regularly throughout the night and it was not a restful night. But, I'll certainly take it over some of the other restless nights where I'm up every two hours for 30 minutes at a time and trying to sooth a screaming baby to sleep.

Anyways, I'm going to go back to lounging on the couch and watching the Yankees game. Soon it will be bedtime for Connor and I may just have to head to bed early today. Probably not the start of a lifetime of sleeping through the night, but it's a small step, and I'll certainly take it. Especially since I had to work today!

Here's hoping that y'all are getting more sleep than me! Good night and Good luck!

Super Returns

This picture is one of my new favorites. Caption can read : "Don't worry miss, now that I'm here, everything's going to be ok." Those pj's are the best thing that I've ever purchased from Walmart...

OK, so I pretty much underestimated how busy and tired I was going to be during baseball season. When I say baseball season, I mean coaching baseball. Coaching was a Monday through Friday commitment (with occasional Saturdays) and involved extended practices or games that brought me home somewhere between 7-8 every day. Then, dinner, time with the fam, occasional games at Yankees stadium, and miraculously enough, grading and school prep filled my nights before I crashed into bed and tried to get as much sleep as I could before starting all over (ok, that's an awkward run-on sentence, but I'm not fixing it!)

Anyways, baseball season is now over and I've started the countdown to the end of the year already. All my classes are planned out to finals week, my time after school is free again, and I'm starting to feel the end of the year approaching rapidly! So, hopefully this means that I can start blogging somewhat regularly again. As with every summer, I already have a very long list of things that I want to do (which I'll share with you in a future post) and I can't wait to get started! But first, I have to get through the last few weeks of classes, grading the final exams, writing reports for all my students, and sitting through terribly dull faculty meetings first. But, for RIGHT now (and possibly the next few days), I'm in a lull and can be wonderfully and blissfully bored with nothing to do but watch Yankees games and play with the kids. I don't even have any grading to do right now....but, I will tomorrow. Oh well. Tonight I'm going to enjoy the downtime and celebrate with this blog post and an early night's sleep.

Of course, tonight Shannon is working the night shift, so that means that I'm on Zoë duty. What that means is that I'll have to wake up every 2-3 hours to feed her and hope that she falls back asleep. If she doesn't then that means that I'll have to walk her around back to sleep, which usually takes about 20-30 minutes of pacing back and forth in a sleepy fog. Then, sleep for 1.5-2.5 hours and repeat. Oy. Hopefully she's good tonight, but just in case she isn't, I'm going to get ready and quickly go to bed now. Wish me luck and hope to post again soon!

Also, if you haven't looked recently, there are some new pictures posted on shutterfly. Sadly, I found out a few weeks ago that my camera is seriously damaged and that the repairs that would be necessary are not worth it. I'm already working on getting a new camera, but for now (and for the next few weeks), I will be camera-less. :( But, perhaps this will just encourage me to work on my camcorder skills and then I can post some movies here!