12/2/06

The baby has had another "awake" night and day, meaning she spent most of it NOT asleep, but awake.  She’s half asleep now, MAYBE asleep, but her eyelids look just a tad open… her breathing sounds asleep though.  She does this, where she’ll go practically an entire day awake, or at the most, with a catnap or two, then a few days later, she’ll sleep practically the entire day.  What surprises me is that last night, she was up quite a bit as well, crying… with gas, and possibly hunger… I DID breast-feed her, but she kept kicking against me (OW), so I’d take her and try to burp her, and get a few farts, then put her back on the breast, and then we’d sleep for a tiny bit before it’d start all over again.  I ended up giving her to Becca at about 9 or 10 a.m. and sleeping til 12 or 1, I was SO tired, and this after going to bed at 10 last night.   I have NO clue as to how much sleep I actually got though.  I love sleeping on our new bed, but I get the feeling the baby does not… though she seems to do all right when Jerry’s there, when he’s not, then she’s acutely aware of me leaving, and starts crying moments later.  This kid is SOCIAL.  She seems SO much happier when she’s around us (me in particular, go figure), that I will sometimes put her in her car seat or swing and place her nearby while we eat or I work on something.  She’s fine with laying on the couch by herself as long as someone is nearby.  It’s interesting.  Every time I move, she falils like she’s falling… weird, but cute :).

Now that she’s asleep, I should go work on a swap or something.  I actually got a layout done in her book the other night.  The journaling took me FOREVER, despite the fact that I was copying and pasting from a couple of different sources… it was too long, and I had to make it fit half of a12 inch page landscape, so I kept having to edit, play with the fonts and the sizes, and try to take out enough for a line so it would fit with everything I wanted to say about her birth.  I finally got it done, but it took a good LOOOONG while, I must say.  I should really work on another page, but I don’t feel like it… I really want to get this embellishment swap that’s hanging over my head done and sent off.  It’s not officially due til Feb, but I promised to have it in by the end of December, otherwise she’ll replace me with angels… so I need to get it off in the next two weeks, preferably.  I’ve got quite a few spots, in fact, I’m in every group, and there are something like 12 or 15 groups, I can’t really remember, truth be told.

Well, guess I WILL go work on that, or work on cleaning up the scraproom, or both, not really sure.  I’m not tired, but I feel guilty for having slept so long today, so wondering if I should go to bed soon?  Heck if I know…  maybe I’ll sleep down here, so I don’t have to move the baby, maybe that’ll get her to sleep longer.  That would be good.