Sleeping through the night...

Well, it's been quite a few weeks since I last updated. We've been busy I guess.
Anyway, we have some exciting news...Jayla has been sleeping at least 5 hours consistently for about 4 weeks now, and it seems that she's on her way to sleeping through the night consistently too. The past 3 nights in row (in addition to 3 or 4 other random nights) Jayla has been sleeping 8+ hours - last night it was 9 hours...I was in complete shock. I didn't think she'd make it through, because she didn't nap very well yesterday.

I know that I've read a healthy 13 pound baby should be able to easily go 9 hours without eating. Well, Jayla is far past that 13 pound stage - yes, that's right, she's a big baby...lovely though. I love all the little rolls and folds. According to our scales, she's somewhere between 15.5 and 16 pounds...and hasn't even hit the 4 month mark yet. I don't know what's in my milk, maybe steroids, but we're certainly not going to start restricting her...I've heard some horror stories where parents try to do that and it backfires on them, and their children end up being obese.

Speaking obese, well, actually just overweight, Martin and I are trying to lose some weight. Me, still my pregnancy weight, I have 8 more to lose before I get to my pre-pregnancy weight, but I'd like to lose 10 total. Which would bring me back to 135 - where I was on my wedding day. And to think I used to think I was "fat" at that weight. Now, I would do anything to be back at that size again. Martin would also like to lose about 10, so we're going to be reducing our calories and increasing our activity. Luckily, we have lots of volounteers for babysitters...so, we should take advantage of that..and get ourselves to the gym.

In addition to Jayla's sleeping patterns changing....she's also changing in so many other ways. She is just amazing. She loves to smile. She hasn't started laughing yet, but any day now, I imagine. She loves her bouncy chair, her swing, the crib (with the mobile playing) and even her tummy mat. She's already becoming a TV junkie (no thanks to her daddy and me)...but really, it's just all the colours and the lights on TV that she loves. The singing shows (like Canadian Idol, The ONE and Supernova rockstar) are her favorites. She also loves when we sing to her, anything, even if it's just a made up song. Another thing she loves is when she's sitting in the swing or the bouncy chair and I put on her "Kid's Song" CD on and then dance and snap and clap in front of the chair...maybe she's just thinking "wow, mommy really is making a fool of herself" and she's sort of laughing at my sillyness....well, whatever the case, we love to see her smile, so I'll do back flips if I have to (although luckily, it hasn't come to that..my back is already taking a beating lifting her and carrying her around)....

We put her in the big tub last night, with daddy (in his bathing suit) and we tried one on her too. The one we bought her (3-6 months) doesn't fit, so we had to bring out the one's our friends gave us which are 12 month size. Well, really, bathing suits are quite fitted, maybe the smaller one would have fit, but I didn't want to upset her. Anyway, she quite liked the big tub, and we didn't have to worry about her making a big mess on the kitchen floor.

Okay, I think that's a pretty good update for now. I'll try and keep this more up to date.