Sleep

Elizabeth generally goes to sleep pretty easily, and wakes up happy with just a little coo to let us know she is awake.  For the past week or two, she has been giving me about a 5 hour block of sleep (from 1030ish until 4ish), and then another block until there is movement in the house.  This morning, she got up around 830. I fed her and we both laid back down, figuring that carolyn would be up soon.  It is now 1115, and the house is still quiet and still. 

I need a whole lot of mornings like this to catch up on all of my lost sleep.  Motherhood is exhausting, not because these girls are exhausting me during the day, but because they do not let me sleep a regular night's sleep.  Carolyn hates going to bed and would stay up all night if we let her.  She still occasionally wakes in the middle of the night, complaining of growing pains in her legs and feet.  But thankfully she will sleep in late.  Maybe Lizzie will learn this behavior too.  Right now, though, I am just hoping that Elizabeth continues to string together a few hours of sleep during the middle of the night.  That is what i need.  Though, with longer blocks of time to sleep lately, I notice that I have been having crazy dreams, usually involving someone falling to their death. 

(Pretty pointless post, but I am trying to finetune the blogging feature from my phone.... I am hoping that these pictures are facing the right way.)