A Plentitude of Photographs

Lazy Saturday mornings are the best and I'm going to miss them if I start this new job. It looks more and more likely that I will be starting a new job sometime next week (sort of a Christmas Miracle) and it, unfortunately, involves Saturday mornings. That's okay, however, as it is in toys with a management team that seems willing to give me a chance to pursue the goals that I've been after for a while now.


As you can see from these photos, the Tsien family spent the morning mostly in bed. Delicious.

Is it admitting to be too slackerly to say that we enjoyed spending almost the entire day inside? Sarah and I went out briefly to the mall food court downstairs for a quick lunch, but mostly we were cozied up inside the house.



Have to admit, however, it wasn't all fun and games. Those of you following the blog know that we've been trying to put some parameters around Margaret's feeding and sleep and while there have been advantages, we still don't seem to have her dialed in perfectly. It's been taking her a lot of crying and screaming to go down, sometimes and I think that it's starting to get Sarah wondering if we aren't doing something wrong.

Typically, she'll feed for about 45 minutes, be active for awhile but then take 45 minutes to go down again during the day. In late evenings (after 11:30 pm or so) this isn't an issue as she goes down fairly easily, but during the day, after 7:00 AM or so, even after a feeding, whilst yawning away, she's screaming her lungs out while we've got her swaddled, trying to get her to fall asleep.

I suppose it may simply involve one of those mysteries that babies keep to themselves.



The good of this, however, is that she will typically have one long 5 hour or so stretch in the evenings. Unfortunately, this has been, up to now, during the 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM period. We're working on shifting this to later and may experiment with waking her up to feed her to "top her off" before we go to sleep.



Anyways, we have our friends Molly and Bill coming over this evening for dinner. They're bringing a salad and we (Daisy) are supplying the pasta. Margaret is the entertainment.

Gotta' love dinner and a show.