Hallelulah

Kate has finally slept through the night!

Ahhhhhhh! It feels like the dawn ...

of a new era in our house. (a pretty sunrise earlier this week)

I can feel my brain coming slightly unfuzzed. We're just four days from her birthday. It has been almost A YEAR since I had a full night's sleep. I was just hitting a wall where I couldn't fall asleep at 2 a.m. after nursing Kate. Thank goodness she seemed to hit a wall, too, where she would lie in bed crying after nursing and if we even went into her room she got hysterical. It was clearly the right moment to let her work some stuff out on her own. And she did!!!!

What a happy, well-rested almost-1-year-old we have in our house now.

We've been staying at Molly's school on Wednesday mornings to make Waldorf dolls with some other moms in the parent-child classroom. Here's Kate playing with the toys.

Here she is telling Molly how glad she is that sister's home from school. All Molly wanted to do was relax with a Highlights magazine, some water and hair twirling. Kate was patting her back, tipping her head onto Molly's shoulder, giving her open-mouth baby kisses and just generally hanging in her space. It was very kind of Molly to tolerate it all. :)

Molly already has her suitcase packed for Rochester. She's extremely excited about this trip, especially for playing with Lucy and riding in the Gator and visiting family. We're pretty excited, too. :)