Sleep Deprivation...

Jeff and I are finally adjusting to having a baby around all the time. It's been an interesting adventure...life is definitely not the same...but it is so fun and worth every second of it! I didn't listen to people when they told me to get lots of sleep before the baby came. I mean that last month it was hard to sleep anyway...you can't ever get comfortable and you wake up ALL the time to pee. Well the baby is here and now that I can and want to sleep...he doesn't let me! So Riley has been sleeping in our room in a bassinet since he came home from the hospital. Well...he makes lots of weird squeaking noises when he sleeps, which you hear in that place between asleep and awake and it makes for a long night and a tiresome next day. Since he was 12 days old yesterday we decided he was all grown up and needed to graduate to his crib! During the day he has been sleeping on our bed and loving it so I figured the crib would be more comfortable than the bassinet and we needed to try it out. So we left our comfort zone and put him in his crib last night and had a monitor in our room...oh man it was AMAZING! He still woke up every 3-4 hours to eat, but the in between sleep was wonderful. Jeff didn't even hear Riley at all last night and this morning wondered if he had ever gotten up! (I let Jeff sleep and try not to wake him up since he has to work all day long and I sit home and make food, change dirty diapers, feed the baby, hang out on facebook, write in our blog, etc. So Jeff is not a bad dad, he just has a wife that wants him to sleep so he can earn us some $$!!) So our 1st lesson learned (of many more soon to come I am sure)...and all of you that don't have kids yet, remember this when you do...the crib rocks!