Going to bed at midnight, and waking up at 4 am reminds me of the day ski trips my dad and I used to take to Sierra Summit, Bear Valley, or Boreal...minus the fun day of skiing on the other end. Waking up at 4am almost has a pain to it. My problem is that once I'm up, I'm up. My dads side of the family has this crazy ability to function off 5-6 hours of sleep. I think I got that gene, and I hope it comes in handy.
What I'm loving is the nursery. Last night I had her from 11-midnight trying to get her to fall asleep. What I realized is that the nursery is just as important to the parent as it is the child. Jodi bought this chandelier thats all girly and bright. I put a dimmer switch on it not knowing the value it would add later. She also bought this glider, with rocking automan. At 11 last night I dimmed the light to it's lowest setting, sat in that glider, turned on the ipod stereo and rocked her to sleep within 10 minutes. This morning I was up as 6:00am to do the same thing, only this morning I found this stuffed lamb that generates 4 types of white noise, Ocean, Stream, Rain, and whale. I swear, 2 minutes of stream and she fell asleep. Another thing I'm going to take advantage of is Pandora radio. I can run it on my Iphone through the wi-fi in the house. Hook that baby up to the stereo and it's endless mixes of music. Don't be surprised if this kid brings back the musical talent in the family...it's skipped the last 2 generations for some reason :)
