Sleeping, Eating and all the other stuff

Ali slept through the night for the first time last night - sort of - but she did sleep for 8 hours straight! And Ali has started to spread out her daytime feedings to 3 hours (until the past couple days she still wanted to eat every 2 hours unless we were out and about and she was sleeping).

In the past month or so Ali has gotten much more predictable with her nighttime sleeping habits. She goes down for the night between 7:30 and 8:30 pm most nights and would do one 5 hour stretch and one 3 hour stretch between feedings. Sometimes she wouldn't even eat much when she woke up between 1 am and 2 am. Then Ali had her 3 month old growth spurt and was back to waking up multiple times a night (every 2 to 3 hours some nights). The past few nights she was basically back to her 5 and 3 hour stretches.

Then last night I woke up around 3:30 am and realized Ali hadn't woken up at all yet. I put her down around 7:45 pm and hadn't fed her since then - I did the math and realized she was only a few minutes short of 8 hours! Of course I worried that this was because something was wrong and I lay awake trying to hear her breath and waiting for her to make some noise trying to decide if I should just get up and check on her but worrying that if I did it would wake her up. She did make noise and I got up and checked on her without waking her. She did end up waking up around 3:45 am and ate really well. She woke up about two hours later and wanted to eat again.

This is very exciting - I am still not expecting this every night just yet but it is great to know there is light at the end of the tunnel!

In other Ali news . . .

She has now outgrown her 0-3 month cloths and is in her 3-6 month cloths! Luckily she has gotten some really cute stuff from people so we don't have to pick up much for her to be all set in that size. I am a little sad to see some of her 0-3 cloths packed away but glad she is growing so well :)

Ali and I had a busy week - she had her 3 month birthday Wednesday and got two more vaccines. She did very well again - I think most of her screaming was due to being woken up and put down on the table rather than the shots. Ali and I also went for a beautiful hike at Red Rocks with the Mountain Mamas group. This was hot but fun!

I am almost done with version 2 of my diaper wallet. The main difference is that this one has a removable wipes envelope. I am also putting together another Ali photo book for her first 3 months. I am trying a new program to make this one - it took a little work to figure it out but I really like it now.