Mystified by Sleep

"Whoever came up with the saying 'sleep like a baby' obviously never had one." I read this quote the other day and couldn't help but laugh. How incredibly true. We've been dealing with some crazy sleep patterns for the past two weeks, and I must admit it is getting kind of tiring. Lena seems to have two or three good nights a week, where she sleeps 6 hours at a time, feeds around 3 a.m., and then sleeps another good chunk. But these good nights are inevitably followed by several very bad nights where she decides to wake up every hour on the hour to eat and fuss and poop and pee, and do whatever else babies do when everybody else in the house just wants to sleep. It's hard when Lena doesn't sleep well, partly because Dan and I don't get any sleep and become cranky and unhappy, but also because we know she can do better than wake up every hour, and we just can't seem to understand why she's reverting back to bad sleep habits.

Tonight it's just mom and Lenabel for the first time ever. The dog-sitter taking care of Gus and Charly while Grandma's on vacation had a family emergency and had to go out of town, so Daniel is sleeping over at Grandma's house and taking care of the dogs until she gets home tomorrow. Lucky daddy gets to sleep uninterrupted all night long, and he definitely deserves the break. Let's hope Lena sleeps well tonight and gives mama a much needed break too!