Sleepyhead...

Last night (Friday night) was a success...Natalie slept through the night for about 7 hours! I had woken up a little before 7am and couldn't believe that she was still asleep. She had just started to stir a little after 7, and once she was fed and changed, she went right back to sleep. She kept this sleeping, eating, getting changed cycle for most of the day with only brief periods of being bright-eyed for an hour at a time at most until around 8p. She is a night owl like her Daddy, but she was also the most active at night while I was still pregnant too!

Needless to say, Saturday was a pretty lazy day for Natalie and I. Bobby was supposed to start work from home around 9am, but things changed and he went back to sleep until around 1p. After he got up for the day, he helped out friends who were moving to a new house, then ran 9 miles with our neighbor, and then started working from home in the evening. He was much more active than we were today! However, Natalie and I did take a little shopping trip this evening.

Shopping is much different and not as enjoyable as it used to be for me, at least when I have Natalie. She is a great shopper (sleeps through it all)! However, today we stopped at Once Upon A Child, Baby Depot in Burlington Coat Factory, and Hobby Lobby and all of them have super small grocery carts or none at all for your shopping pleasure! Now, as a first-time mom, I really had no clue what to do with the carseat when you go shopping, so I 'googled' it and found that you are not supposed to place the carseat on top of the cart due to making the cart top heavy with potential of injuring the baby if the carseat should fall. Well, of course I do not want that scenario so it said on this particular website to place the entire carseat inside the cart and just place items around the baby. I have done this so far at Kroger and Walmart, but today, none of the stores allowed me to do this because of their tiny carts! I did see a couple other people in the stores placing their babies in the carseat on top of the cart, which would definitely be much easier, but I think for now I will refrain from that. Carrying around a carseat with a baby inside and trying to hold other items while shopping is NOT ideal nor comfortable. Therefore, we didn't shop long, but I did find some of the things I was looking for, but decided not to go anywhere else due to the heaviness of carrying the carseat all around.

On another note, we call Natalie our "little bobblehead" due to her trying to hold her head up on her own more and more and as she does her head just bobs all around. She is doing much better with her neck strength and you can tell she is getting stronger as she can now hold her head up for several seconds without difficulty. It is so awesome interacting with and watching her explore new things and be fascinated with the lights and computer screen when I Skype with my parents. She also loves to look out the window in the living room, but I think it's the red curtain she sees. Today I ordered her an activity mat gym where she can play on the floor exploring new things as she looks up or does tummy time. I think she's going to love it! They sure are pricey though, but she's definitely worth it. We'll just consider it her 'early' Easter present :)

Each and every day I just fall more and more in love with her! She is amazing!

Update: Well, last night (Saturday night) wasn't as successful as Friday, but wasn't horrible. Natalie slept from 12(midnight) until 4:30a, then 5am until 7am, then 7:30a until 8:30a.