I am the queen of multi-tasking!

I'm so proud of myself. As I type I am "wearing" my baby with the snazzy Moby wrap which supposedly makes Collin feel like he's snug in the womb. This huge piece of fabric was a bit intimidating but once I got the hang of it, he fell sound asleep (and immediately stopped crying). This means I can clean, write, read, work, whatever. Of course that all requires energy...

According to a nurse I spoke with, when people refer to your baby sleeping through the night, they really mean the baby slept a 5 or 6 hour stretch. So basically parents adjust to lack of sleep and it's a godsend when your kid snoozes from midnight until 5. It's funny because in college this was not a big deal at all. Staying up late working on a paper (or drinking) and then waking up for class in the morning was second nature. But a few years later, feeding a baby at 2 am while half asleep and then hearing the alarm clock of screams three hours later is exhausting. I do miss my nice 8 hours of solid slumber but when I look at his little face I know it's worth it.

Yesterday Mike and I left Collin alone for the first time! My parents offered to watch him while we caught a movie. He only screamed a few minutes for grandma and grandpa and was happily settled with food, then promptly fell asleep (he waited until we arrived to projectile poop all over Mike's clothes). To all the friends/family who have offered to watch our son and give us a much needed sanity break: WE WILL TAKE YOU UP ON THAT! I'm a firm believer that relationships need continual cultivation especially when kids enter the picture so date nights at least once a month are a necessity, as are mini overnight trips a couple times a year. It not only helps us take a deep breath and appreciate our son even more, but makes sure we remember why we fell in love in the first place and that we had a life PC.