Three Major Accomplishments

Okay, two major accomplishments and a stroke of good fortune.

First, the monkey ma’am is a champion sleeper. Almost overnight she went from sleeping seven hours at night to sleeping nine (or more) hours at night! A couple of nights she has slept for ten!! Even better, we have now moved her start time back to midnight, which is a vast improvement over her past bedtime. Before we left for Richmond, we’d gotten it moved from 2 am (which she had stubbornly stuck to for-ev-er) to about 1 am, but all of a sudden, she was getting to sleep around 12 – a couple of times even 11:45. It’s a miracle! I fully realize that this may just be a phase, so I’m keeping my expectations low, but it is a beautiful phase and I am not taking a single night for granted.

The second accomplishment is mine. While we were in St. Simons, I wore a complete pre-pregnancy outfit. We’re talking top and bottom. Not maternity clothes, not a ‘transition’ size. Yay! It felt so great. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that these shorts were one of my looser pairs, but I think the feat stands. It marks a milestone and gives me great encouragement to fit into all the rest of my clothes!

The third thing has nothing at all to do with the baby or with pregnancy, but it made me very, very happy. When we were unpacking last night, I found two pair of underwear that I thought were lost forever. This may seem an odd attachment to undergarments, but they’re my favorite kind and the store I bought them from doesn’t make them anymore, so they were essentially irreplaceable. They’ve been missing for months, but apparently I had just packed them the last time we used this suitcase and didn’t get them out with the rest of my clothes. Funnily enough, I had even checked all the suitcases when I was hunting for them, but I guess I didn’t look hard enough. So yay for finding much beloved things that you thought were gone forever.

I have a bunch of pictures and video from the beach – I’ll post those soon!