Zzzzzzz? Sometimes.

There's no way around it - we are obsessed with Scarlett's sleep habits.  We have two types of days around here: on a good day Scarlett goes down for her naps easily and sleeps for over an hour at a time.  On these days I feel good, hopeful, productive, triumphant!  On a not-so-good day I'm in the bedroom most of the day trying to get her to stop crying so she can relax and go to sleep.  Some days I'm so desperate for her to nap that I let her sleep on me for as long as she needs, sometimes for a couple hours at a time.  I watch a lot of muted television.  It's funny how you really don't need the sound when there's closed captioning.  Especially for shows on HGTV.  Anyway, on those not-so-good days I feel frustrated and discouraged and lonely.  Thankfully, we're having a lot of good days lately.  Scarlett seems to be chilling out a bit.  She's crying less and falling asleep much quicker.  She's still a championship nighttime sleeper.  Since we started our nighttime routine (bath, massage, pajamas, swaddle, nurse) she sleeps for a good seven straight hours and just last night she slept for eight.  She woke up, I fed her and she slept for three more.  And THEN she took a two and a half hour nap.  Scarlett is such a happy baby when she's well rested.  She smiles at us when we pick her up out of her crib and she has lots of energy to coo and "talk" to us.  She is such a talker.  I'm not sure where she gets it from.  Weird.

Scarlett got her first pair of jeans recently and we celebrated with a trip to Target.  I'm not kidding.  Well, I am about the celebrating.  We did actually go to Target, though.