Sleep, I miss you...Come home soon...

Daylight Savings Time is bittersweet. You understand this if you have kids! It is really tough on the little ones' schedules. And for that matter, it affects me too. I was so blessed to have a baby who sleeps to between 8-9 AM in the morning. Now that has changed to 7-8 AM. Okay, that is still not bad at all, except Ley is getting up at 6 or 6:30 AM now! I am so not a morning person; I have never been a morning person. I know that there are moms who get up at 5 AM due to their sweet litle children's body clocks (so I should NOT complain), but I just needed to vent. My body and my brain miss the extra sleep in the AM. I am off the decaf and on something with a little kick (I love that Folgers makes a Lite coffee with half the caffeine of regular coffee...).

I can't believe it is already November and that I have not posted in two weeks! We made a whirlwind trip back to North LA to visit our immediate family so they could meet Miss Madden (and Jeremy had a wedding gig to play, of course). We lived through the ordeal of traveling twelve hours with a 4 month old who truly dislikes her carseat. I can almost tune out her 'carseat' cry after listening to it for so long...



Madden had her 4 month check-up last week. She was 13 lbs and 24 1/4 in, which is 40 and 50 percentile consecutively! I kind of freaked a bit until Dr. Hobby assured me it was no big deal. She was in the 8o and 95 percentile at her two month appt. He said as long as she is doing everything she is supposed to as far as milestones and developmentally (which she is), that she is just a little baby. This is foreign to me considering Leighton never fell out of the 90 percentile! At 4 months, he was 2 1/2 lbs heavier and almost 3 in longer than Maddie! Anyway, Madden made it through another set of shots; and Jeremy, Leighton and I have all received our flu shots this year per the Dr. to try and protect sweet baby girl (as well as ourselves, but not sure I could have talked Jeremy into getting one if I didn't play the "Dr. said you had to because of Maddie" card).



We had fun trick or treating this year. Leighton was in his usual form this year. He thinks when someone opens their door to him with a bowl of candy that this means he is welcome to come on in! We had to keep reminding him not to enter the homes...He loved his costume and we will continue to get lots of wear out of it since he loves to play dress up. Madden was a chili pepper courtesy of her friend Jackson. I wasn't going to dress her up but decided to at the last minute since Ashley had the costume, and Jeremy really wanted her to be something. It was a bit big, but we didn't mind and neither did she.