Thank you!!

I wanted to thank everyone for their emails of encouragement!!! I am really happy to be able to blog about Annie. It is possible right now because of her morning nap. Otherwise, I don't know when I would do it - she is such a busy little girl and my bedtime has changed.
Yes, because Miss is up between 5:45 and 6:30 - the little devil keeps changing it up- I try to be in bed reading by about 9 pm. Haven't gone to bed this early in years but I need at least 8 hours of sleep to be human and if she wakes me in the night, this gives me a little cushion. Really, she is an good sleeper if not a little restless. As her crib is right beside the bed, I wear one earplug so that her thrashing around doesn't wake me - figured that one out a few nights ago, yeah- and I can still hear and respond to her if she needs me. I have the best husband as she woke up this morning at 4am crying her heart out, actually she wasn't really awake. I was able to soothe her back to sleep but then I didn't get back to sleep until 5:30 and she was up singing at 5:40. My darling husband Shawn got up with Annie this morning while I put another earplug in and slept until 8:30am!!!!!! Wow, I almost felt sick when I woke up because I haven't slept that late in months!!! Too funny. I know that we are VERY lucky to have a child that basically sleeps through the night and other than when she is teething, is easily soothed back to sleep. BUT when you are a deep sleeper and not used to being woken in the middle of the night, it takes some getting used to!!!!!! I should have set my alarm for 3 am, then 4am the week before we left for China, just so that I could get used to it!!!!!!!!