Rested

I woke up this morning to Max's hungry "eh eh EH EEEEHH!" feeling oddly refreshed.  He wasn't throwing too much of a fit yet so I got up to go to the bathroom first before I fed him. On the way back I checked the clock and found it was 6:15 in the morning. And this was the first time he'd gotten up since 10!

A couple of months ago he had begun sleeping until 4:30, but that only lasted about two weeks before he settled into his routine of going to sleep at 8, then waking at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 (or in yesterday's case 6:30 when John's alarm went off).  I'd pretty much lost hope of him really sleeping through the night until he started eating solids at six months.  If I was lucky. 

I was so taken by surprise, and so TIRED, that my body just went ahead and slept all night right along with him (A few months ago, when he was sleeping longer, my boobs were still waking me up at 1 or 2 in the morning and I'd just sit and wait with achey boobs until he woke up.  WASTE!).  Of course, I woke up with a soaking wet shirt, but I was so thrilled about him having slept, I didn't even notice my wet shirt until I got up to have breakfast. 

Even the dog slept through the night, providing further proof that she was only waking up because the baby was. 

Now, I know better than to hope this becomes anything more than a fluke, but I do suspect that it could have something to do with the fact that I didn't drink any diet Pepsi yesterday.  I had one cup of coffee in the morning, then nothing but water, milk and two cans of diet CAFFINE FREE Coke the rest of the day.  I'd known that the Diet Pepsi's weren't HELPING, but to be honest, I really NEEDED the extra boost to get me through the days, I didn't really believe that a few Diet Pepsi's during the day would keep my baby up ALL NIGHT.  Hmm, maybe I was wrong. 

In any case, I feel FANTASTIC this morning, and ready to conquer the world (or maybe just a mountain of laundry and a few poopy diapers)