Let Birthday Week Commence!

My actual birthday is not until this Thursday, but long ago Will and I declared that birthdays warranted a full week of commemoration. And so, Birthday Week has begun. Off to an especially good start, too, because Will had a four day weekend. So, there was enough time to do the necessary chores as well as to bum around as much as we wanted. The three main events were 1. eating, 2. working on creating Rachael & Will sized indentations in the new couch, and 3. teaching Edie how to sleep. Success, success, and success.

As for eating, Will made my birthday cake already. Chocolate cinnamon with vanilla frosting. Not too shabby. And together we cooked up homemade pizza and a delicious curry. The curry was so good that I couldn't bring myself to stop eating to nurse Edie, but of course I couldn't bring myself to not nurse Edie either. The result was a couple curry stains on baby's outfit from my shaky fork-wielding hand and two well-fed lasses.

The new couch is sublime. After a brief squabble over how to position it, Will saw the light and I won, and it's now our home base. We rarely plop down on it without a satisfied "ahhhhhh." I admit that I've badly monopolized the chaise. And as soon as Will lactates, I will happily turn over the soft-yet-supportive throne.

Magical No Sleep Baby is making some real headway in the rest department, thanks to our relentless vigilance and persistence. I over-researched the issue, as I tend to do, but it seems to have paid off. For Edie, at least, it's paying off. If Will hears the list of baby drowsy indicators one more time, he may take a night job. She's making up for lost time now, barely able to stay awake for 45 minutes at a time.

We should have added "feed the dogs" as a fourth event, as sadly we realized on Saturday evening that we'd forgotten to buy more kibble. Sadder still, the stores did not reopen until today, Tuesday. Oh well, that's why we have a spare dog, I suppose.

Enjoy the family pics!