3:47am

3:47am.  This is what time Alice just woke up to eat - How amazing.   You heard me right - amazing!!!!  No, this isn't a 'grr my baby woke up in the middle of the night' post.  But why is this amazing you might ask . . . because she went to sleep around 10:30! Don't bother counting on your fingers - I'll do the math for you - that's like a 5+ hour sleep?

What?!

Yes - 5+ hours.  And no, I don't wonder if I should have woken her up or if she slept too long.  Instead, I'm trying to figure out what went right :-).  She seemed to have a lot of awake time during the day yesterday.  We played together a lot of the morning (she was awake with me while I folded some laundry, got ready, etc.) and she had a good nap time during the afternoon while I was out running errands.  Then in the evening she had some solid awake time too in between what seemed like every 30 minute feeding sessions.  I wondered at the time if she would keep it up all night (which would not have been fun at all) but instead, she ate around 10/10:30 and I remember thinking "ok, maybe just 2 feeds overnight . . . i can psych myself up for a 1:30am and then a 4:30am , , , that's not so bad".  So, imagine my surprise when she wakes up and I have this feeling that I've actually been asleep for a wee bit, only to look at the clock and see it read 3:47!!  It's a christmas miracle I tell you!

So now I'm scheming to figure out how I can repeat this sacred event.  If I repeat everything perfectly from yesterday then we'll have a fun morning together at the house and maybe get a load of laundry actually put away (since we about got half a load done yesterday morning) and I'll stop doing laundry when I realize you're awake and alert - and I should take advantage of this prescious time. Then we'll meet Daddy for lunch at Skyline where I won't be able to decide what I want to eat (seriously - I need to look at a menu every time I go to Skyline which is slightly embarassing since their menu hasn't changed in about 35 years.  I'm the only Cincinnatian I know that doesn't know exactly what I want to order there and practically walk through the door chanting my order - I digress - maybe a side effect of too much sleep).  Then we'll run errands all afternoon while you sleep.  Finally, we'll end the night with a fun last minute visit to nana and papa's house to watch the bearcats and eat pizza.  You'll have some more fabulous awake time there in between eating every 30 minutes. 

So, that's the recipe for sleeping over 3 hours at night. Let's hope this is a trend starting to develop. I can definitely handle this  - and would have no problem eating Skyline for lunch everyday for the rest of my life!