Well, I got to go out on my morn­ing drive to Starbucks. Usually Sophie has an, “hour after a wake up” nap. It lasts from about 8:15 to 9:00 in the morn­ing. That is when I can escape with the car and drive on down to Starbucks to get cof­fee. Of course, I can’t go in and order, sit and read a book; how­ever I can go through the drive thru and get our orders and have a leisurely drive around Lake Hollingsworth. It is a peace­ful 15 min­utes. I always have a small temp­ta­tion to keep going around and around the lake, but I know some­one is wait­ing on me at home (Sophie, not Greg) so back I go.

Today was dif­fi­cult. She would not go to sleep for more then 30 min­utes and was up pretty much from 9:00 in the morn­ing until 8:00 tonight. She was either cry­ing, eat­ing or fill­ing her draw­ers. I was a lit­tle frus­trated. It helped to have friends come over that night. Daniel cooked pan­cakes, bacon and eggs and we watched Ratatoullie. Briana helped with Sophie, try­ing to calm her and get her to finally fall asleep. It was a good evening, even though I was at my wits end by the time the movie started.

The other stress­ful thing is her breath­ing at night. She gets REALLY con­gested and spends most of the night cough­ing, gag­ging and try­ing to get some air through her tiny nose. She is fine dur­ing the day, it is just at night when we have prob­lems. We looked up some reme­dies and tired a cou­ple already. One was to stand in a steamy bath­room, which we did and that helped her for about two hours. The oth­ers are prop­ping her up in bed (which we have), get­ting a humid­i­fier in the room(which we are buy­ing today), using saline drops and suc­tion­ing out her nose (which will come if the humid­i­fier doesn’t help) and finally putting some drops of breast milk in her nose. The last one sounds odd, but sev­eral peo­ple swear by it. We will try any­thing once, because she sounds really bad at night. It gets to the point that Greg and I worry she will not start breath­ing again. So, we hope what we try will work and our lit­tle one will sleep bet­ter at night.

All and all we are doing well and enjoy­ing being par­ents. Sophie is a won­der­ful delight and a pre­cious gift from God. We are blessed to have her and to take care of her.