Knock on Wood...

THANK you to everyone who has been praying for sweet Piper. She's had a much better last few days!!! She has a couple of fussy periods each day but it's NOTHING compared to what the boys were like. She really seems to just be fussy when she's hungry, sleepy or has a little gas. I'm sooo excited that she's doing better and just hope that it continues!! Also, I totally second what Jennifer has said about the book The 90 Minute Baby Sleep Program. I've noticed after reading some of the book (I haven't had time to read it all b/c for some reason the boys don't think it makes a good night-night book:), that when Piper is awake it's usually for 90 minutes. Today I decided to keep track of the time better and sure enough every time Piper was awake she was awake for 90 minutes. Toward the end of 90 minutes her eyes were really heavy and she got a little fussy so I swaddled her and put her in her crib and she slept so well. It's been sooo much better the last few days. I'm still totally sleep deprived because one of her fussy periods is through the night. Last night she got fussy before bedtime so we didn't go to sleep until after 1:00 am and then Parker woke up before 5:00 am and wanted someone to sleep with him so I went and snuggled him IN HIS TODDLER BED until 6:00 am... just in time to feed Piper again. Whew.... what a night but honestly I enjoyed snuggling my sweeties!! More sleep would be nice but these are definitely sweet times!!

I am so thankful that...

1. Today has been better than yesterday.

2. Piper slept better last night.

3. Piper hasn't been near as fussy today.

4. The boys woke up at 7:00 am instead of 6:45 (15 minutes is really a long time:).

5. Cameron will be home at 5:00 instead of at 6:30 (he had to show our rent house last night so his 1st day back to work was a really, really looooong one). 

6. My dear, dear friend Diana is bringing us dinner. I could write this one 10 times because I'm really so excited about that. It's hard to cook and clean when you're so sleep deprived. THANK YOU DIANA!!!

7. I'm late on this one but last Wednesday our nanny, Mrs. Mindy, stopped by and picked the boys up and took them to the library and to play for several hours. We were SO EXCITED AND THANKFUL FOR THIS!!!

8. Piper is sleeping right now in her bassinet.

9. The boys are playing Secret Agents outside and there's no screaming (YET).

10. We have leftovers to eat for lunch.

11. I have been much more patient today (So far).

12. We've only had our For Rent sign up for 1 day and probably had a dozen people interested and are having to choose who to rent to.

13. David Archuletta and David Cook are in the finals of American Idol:), however, I am sad it will be over next week:( what will we do on Tues and Wed nights??

I'm sure I could write a lot more but I need to get lunch going before sweet Piper wakes up. 

Also, please pray for us and Piper. The boys were sooo colicky and the past couple of days it's looking as though Piper may be showing some signs of colic (Parker started right after he was 2 wks old). I'm sooo sad about this because the baby stage was not fun at all with either of the boys. They literally cried for hours and hours at a time everyday. I know we will survive if Piper goes through the same thing but I really want to just enjoy at least one of our babies sweet baby time.