blackmoondog

I think the crappy sleep we just hit was courtesy of the 11 week developmental spurt (according to The Wonder Weeks, I haven't actually *read* the book yet as Amazon has a *4-6 week* lead time on it). Zoe starts her 15th week today so her adjusted age would put her spot on for the 11 weeker.

The good news is that instead of being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after the 3am feeding this morning, she finally hit the deep sleep that allows me to put her in the co-sleeper without her waking. She then slept from about 3:30am to nearly 9am. The next spurt is due around 19 weeks (23 weeks for Zoe, around mid-May) and is supposed to be a doozy.

I spent most of today trying to get Zoe to nap. Alas, the longest nap I could get out of her was 20 minutes at a time. Of course as soon as I gave her to papa, he put her in the bjorn and she slept for nearly 3 hours.

Ah, gotta go. My boobs are being paged. Pics will have to wait until next time.

I can now recite Good Night Moon from memory with about 95% accuracy.

I guess that comes from only having four board books from which to choose: Good Night Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and two by Sandra Boynton -- Snuggle Puppy and The Going To Bed Book.

I ordered a Mother Goose book that I remembered from childhood but apparently my memory was wonky because it is totally not what I expected. We (read: Mark) also pulled down the box of children's books that I brought from my mom's house years ago. It includes a lot of Dr. Suess, a few Disney books, and a handful of Little Golden Books (which are almost exclusively Christmas stories). None of these work as well at this age as the four board books. Most are just longer than I'd like.

I never expected to sing as much as I have in the past month. I'm glad I got a sheet full of songs from Parent Participation class. That was a good starting point and I've been either making things up ("You are very cute, little Toot Toot. You are very sweet, good enough to eat!") or dredging childhood memories for songs (Old MacDonald, This Old Man, etc). Zoe's favorite is "The Merry Duke of York" (Thank you, PP!). Last night she burst into a fit of giggles when we did that one. Probably the combination of the bouncing and singing. :)