Monday, August 23, 2010

Little Successes!

I am celebrating today!  It's not because I am writing a real estate contract in between nursing and diaper changes (although I'm happy about that too), but it is because Maggie finally ate rice cereal!  She sat there (in her bouncy chair), let me feed the cereal to her with a spoon and actually swallowed it.  It is funny that this feels like such a success, but it really does.  I'm in a good mood and am feeling like I accomplished something.  I think my overall good mood stems from the idea that once Maggie starts to eat solid food she will sleep longer.  I've been pretty lucky that she basically sleeps from 8:30pm to 5:30am every night, but I would love it if she slept an hour or two longer.  I've heard that when babies start to eat solid food they sleep longer because they stay full longer.  That is why toddlers can sleep 12 hours at a time.  Maggie started sleeping eight hours a night at around eight weeks old.  My trouble is that I don't want to go to bed at 8:30pm too.  It might be wishful thinking, but I would love to be able to go to bed at 10:30 or 11pm and sleep until 6:30 or 7am.  I'm wondering if any of you have some comments on what your child does.  Am I lucky as it is or am I right to want more?!?!

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