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// June 22nd, 2009 // family

Happy 7-month birthday to Lyla today!

(by the way, how cute is this picture of Lyla and her cousin Jackson? OMG)

When you have a baby, sometimes things take forever to change. But other times, it can take just a few days or a week and suddenly everything is different.

In the last seven days, Lyla has slept through the night about 4-5 times and has done it a few days in a row now. In fact, it’s already starting to become the norm.

She even had two nights where she slept for 12 hours!

Now, these nights seem to come with a few wake up/cry moments, but they only last a few minutes.

We attribute this of course to the fact that she’s probably getting the right amount of food now. We’d been a bit behind the 8-ball for some reason and didn’t realize how much baby food she was supposed to be getting. We weren’t starving her (calm down everyone), but it just wasn’t enough.

Now that she’s full and starting to plump up, the sleeping has become easy. She’s on a nice schedule now…sleep all night, take a morning nap from around 8:30-10:30 and then an afternoon one from 2-3 or something like that.

She’s just as happy as a clam too. From the books I’ve read, I’m a firm believer in sleep = a happy baby. The less sleep they get, the more chance of A.D.D. and fussiness. She’s never been that fussy, but now she’s just as giggly as ever.

Of course, she’s also getting older and more interested in “things”, meaning she gets bored more easily, especially if we’re out eating. She doesn’t just sit there anymore, she wants to know what’s going on and play with stuff. If she’s not having fun, then she’s starting to whineeeeeeee….which gets annoying.

But we love her anyways.

With her going to bed now between 6:30 and 7:30, our time for evening dinners is ending, so Jina and I are planning on try to do a few more date nights when we can. Going out on Friday night for our anniversary was a lot of fun. We ate dinner at Kona Grill and just hung out at Starbucks for a few hours, soaking up the beautiful weather we were having.

Really enjoyed Father’s Day. Jina and Lyla got me cards, which were very funny, and then they both got me a $25 gift certificate to Atomic Comics and a little USB reading lamp.

I have to say, the reading lamp is pretty awesome. You can power it with the USB connection which will light up your keyboard in dark rooms, or connect it to a clip that I put on the headboard last night to read. Soft LED lights…very nice.

Oh yeah, another reminder…I started a weather blog called Haboobing, so go check it out and subscribe/bookmark it!

Now I leave you with a little video of Lyla laughing at me throwing the ball for the doggies. You never know what the kid will find funny, but when she starts laughing, we grab the video camera.