To sleep, perchance to dream...

Oy. Just when you think you might get a nice li'l uninterrupted stretch of 6 hours of sleep, Rose pulls out her whammy gun and instead you get up every two and a half hours. Not just one night, but two in a row. Needless to say the dark circles are back under my eyes. However, the good news is she's sleeping much better during the day this week. As I say, baby steps. Pun intended.

We will be making the big move upstairs from our guest room/bassinet arrangment to OUR OWN BED (!!!!) and Rose to her crib. Hooray! I think it will either be tomorrow or Friday night. I'm so excited, I can't believe it. I haven't spent a night up there since October 1. Tim had two nights there while I was in the hospital, lucky guy. We've basically only used the room for a closet since Rose came home. It will be nice to get that slice-o-normal back, when so much is not normal anymore...I have to learn to embrace the new normal. Its the new black.

Little Bits

So while we adjust to having Rose as part of our happy little trio of Tim, Maxwell and I, its nice to see that there are snippets of our old life surfacing every now and then. Like last night. Tim stopped at Barnes & Noble on his way home (good!) and brought me a present (better!). Its the current Rolling Stone with Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert on the cover (best!). We heartily enjoy both of them, as does most of America I imagine.

Rose had her first photo shoot today. OK, so it was at Target, but it was still a photo shoot. She did remarkably well and is so cute. Once the pictures arrive, I'll post one here for all to admire.

So one of the first days that we were home with Rose, Ellen DeGeneres had a hip-hop guy on her show. His name is Chingy. Unexplicably, that has become our nickname for Rose. Its kinda catchy and she doesn't seem to mind. I think she thinks it gives her cred.

Progress on our deck project has screeched to a halt. Its literally been a month since the team has been here to do any work on it. Aggravating. Just freakin' finish it for the lovvagawd. We have approval from the Conservation Commission to do the front entrance project, but I fear that they'll start that and never finish it either and we'll be stuck hiking through snow & darkness with Chingy in tow to the back door for the whole f-in winter. I will not be a happy camper, needless to say.