I get no respect!

Dearest Lilah -

Well, well, well. As if it weren't enough to have you enter the world looking exactly like your daddy, but now you've decided that he has the best name in the world and you are going to say it and say it and say it and say it! Every morning at 6:00am, all I hear is "Squeaky squeaky, grunt DADADADADADADADADADADA." The funniest thing that has happened was yesterday morning: You woke up at 5:00 and I hoped that after feeding you, you would fall back to sleep until nearly 8:00am. Ha. Double Ha. You were up at 6:30, singing your little fuzzies songs and calling for your daddy "DaDaDaDaDaDa." Because you weren't crying and actually sounded quite happy, I decided to leave you a few minutes...just to make SURE you weren't going to fall back to sleep and give me the extra hour I so desperately needed. But you kept squeaking and "DaDa"-ing, and then all of a sudden another voice joined your choir: Sully Cat. He realized one of the "people" were awake and hoped you could help him out by putting food in his bowl. You said "Squeaky Squeaky" and he would say, "MEOOOOOOW! MEOOOOOOOW!" It was early, but I was lying in bed cracking up and wondering how long it would be before the two of you woke up your daddy with all that noise. So I after a few minutes I went in and got you to bring you into bed with me.

When I bring you into the big bed, you are always wide awake. It is so hard to get you to sleep, because you want to be AWAKE. I usually lie sleepily beside you and let you chatter away and poke me in the eyes and mouth and pull my hair. Occasionally I will nod off, and then you'll poke your finger in my eye and I'll say, "eye. Eye. You're poking me in the Eye." It's a teachable moment. I like to keep this supersoft fuzzy blanket on the bed and sleep under it instead of the comforter. It feels so good that I don't even care that it's 70 degrees in the room and I really don't NEED a king sized supersoft fuzzy blanket on my bed. And you like it, too. Daddy likes to wrap you up in it any time we end up in the bedroom during the day, and we say, "Oh-Wee! Look at the little bitty baby in her blankie!" and you LAUGH! This morning when I brought you into the bed with me, you thought it would be a good idea to puke all over both of us. So we got out of our pukey tops and just snuggled up in the blanket. I put you on top and wrapped it all around you to make you like a little baby taco, and I was under the big part next to you. We both got so comfy that within a few minutes, we fell back to sleep!

It was a good thing we got that extra sleep this morning since you took NO NAPS today! You dozed a few minutes at daddy's office and then a few minutes when you went out to the grocery store with me. I tried to put you down for a nap when we got home, but you popped your eyes open and started chewing on your elephant friend. I went back in because you were making so much noise, I knew you weren't going to fall asleep. While I stood there, you decided you were tired of looking at me from your belly and flipped yourself right over on your back! It's the first time I've seen you do that while you were trying! You seemed so pleased and surprised. You actually always seem pleased and surprised when you do something new. I guess that's pretty approrpriate :-) I probably look pleased and surprised, too.

You are just so much fun and we enjoy you every day. I cannot thank you enough for being the most awesome baby EVER.

Love,
Mommy