This baby is trying to demolish the central tenant of my personal regligion: Thou shalt not get out of bed before 6:00am.
I've been dealing pretty well with the having to get up and use the bathroom in the middle of the night (for the first time in my adult life) and most nights I go right back to sleep. Lately, however, I have been having an increasing number of early mornings where I wake between 3am and 5am and just can't fall back into slumber. Sometimes I just start thinking and totally wake up. Others I just cannot find a comfortable position. This morning I woke around 4:30am ravenously hungry. I'm hoping that the silver lining in all this is that it will ease the transition into the Land of the Zombies (aka parents of newborns) but I guess only time will tell.
In other news, some friends invited us over for dinner last night and sent us home with a ton of baby stuff. The back of the Prius was so full that the rearview mirror was totally unusable. From what I remember offhand, we came home with a Pack 'N Play, a swing, a 2nd bouncy chair (sis-in-law had already handed one down), a Bjorn and a couple other styles of wearable carriers, a box of 0-3 month clothes, a box of 3-6 month clothes, a box of receiving blankets/burp cloths/bibs, 3 baby gates, and some other assorted accessories. And that was only a fraction of what they had for us to look at. Some other friends who just had their 3rd baby (but 1st girl) were over as well and they took home most of the 6-9 month clothes.
I have to say that being on this circuit of baby hand-me-downs rocks. Most of the time those doing the giving think of it as *us* doing *them* a favor ("Get this out of my garage/attic/etc"). Sis-in-law has already given us a co-sleeper, a bouncy chair, an exersaucer, a couple of wearable carriers, a Moses basket, and several bags of clothes. Heck, a gal I've never even *met* gave a friend some bags of clothing to pass on to us!
The only major purchases we've made so far have been a comfy armchair (which we got on mega sale Labor Day weekend) and a dresser from IKEA. OK, and technically the supplies to re-paint and re-floor the baby's room. We also just bought a new entertainment center via Craigslist but that is only kinda related to the baby, as our current set up is a death trap for children. Which reminds me... I better get started clearing stuff out of the way for the big switcheroo today.
