The Daily Hailey

“Wavy” is pretty much interchangeable with “baby” in our house. You can hear it, right? Baby toys are Wavy toys. The baby seat is the Wavy seat. Its possible I even sing her “Wavy Shark” from time to time. The kids LOVE it!

That was all just to explain the odd wording of todays blog title. Stop being such a weirdo, Hailey.

If you guys have been paying attention, you know Waverly is working on sleeping through the nights. She’s doing a great job, occasionally waking up for a few minutes here and there, but going back down on her own. Only one night in the last couple of weeks has flopped completely. But a big change that comes with Wavy sleeping through is that schedule actually matters. It hasn’t really up to this point, because she sleeps anytime, wherever, and always just gets up once a night, which has been fine! But now that we know she can sleep through the night, we want her days to make sense. We also like to see her from time to time, haha!

Yesterday was a tricky one. She woke up somewhere between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning, and she was ready to just go right back to sleep. Except that she had slept through the night and needed to be up! So rather, we brought her down to the dining room and she hung out with the kids during breakfast. She was ok with it, but not thrilled. She didn’t want to eat any food from the table, unlike her usual grabbing, hand-sucking, breakfast eating. I played with her through the morning and managed to keep her up until the kids started lunch, around 11:30. She was SO tired. I made her a bottle to sleep drink, and figured she’d not beautifully.

It has been a LONG time since she fell asleep drinking milk on me ❤️

Brady was pretty happy to snuggle her like that, too.

Wrapping her up woke her a little. She always burrows into your elbow when she’s REALLY tired, but she also LOVES to be photographed, lol!

She’s such a ham.

The rest of the day wasn’t as smooth. She woke up earlier than usual, but our new normal is to keep her up until 7:00. But she wouldn’t drink, and was just flat out ticked. She wouldn’t play, or be cuddled, or eat. Just not happening. I put her back down within a half hour. She MAD cried for a bit, but then slept hard for a couple more hours.

And I’m thrilled to say that, even though our new usual got moved around a bit, she was down for the night before 8:00, and she slept through without any lulling!!! Brady and I woke up around 7:45, not because of any sound, but because we were rested and ready for the day. It. Was. Awesome.

Its not a perfect system, but we’re getting there! Its starting!