Saturday, August 26, 2006

Fluke? Coincidence? Experimentation? Developing Pattern? Habit?

So, yesterday’s sleeping 11 hours straight might have been a fluke if it only happened the one time. I am not discounting that it happened, but you just don’t want to get your hopes up until it happens a lot, in a row. I remember reading somewhere that it had to happen five times in a row to be considered a habit or mastered.

Well, that bring us to last night. She slept 11 hours in a row. Now could this be a coincidence? Is she does it a third time I am calling it experimentation, a fourth time it is a developing pattern and finally the fifth time she will have mastered it and it will be a habit.

Even if it is a coincidence, I still got 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, which was so nice. I didn’t get up to check on her until my 8 hours was up. She moved around a little when I went in there (as she is a light sleeper), but went right back to sleep. I do hope this continues.

This woman wrote that three months seemed to be the magic number and her babies were sleeping completely through.

Yesterday we went to visit grandma & grandpa M. while daddy was helping out one of his brothers. She kept going between happy & frustrated, no in-between. She’s starting to grab at toys more now and is enjoying her toys we hang on her car seat or stroller. On the drive home yesterday she kept herself busy playing with the car seat arch (it’s like this, same brand but different creatures). This was the only one I could find to use for her car seat in daddy’s car because she has a convertible car seat in there, so there is no bar to hang/attach anything to. And when she got bored with that she started sucking on her fist for a while, then went back to playing and finally fell asleep for the last 15 minutes (of about an hour & 15 minutes drive). She is starting to do a good job of entertaining herself when she needs to.

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