The Past Week Or So

Tim finished up working for Absolute on Wednesday! And he doesn't start working for IBM until Dec 8th, so we're pretty excited to get to spend some time together before the new job starts.

On Wednesday Mimi and Pop drove down from MA for Thanksgiving. We had a nice relaxing day on Thursday. For the most part Tessa was pretty good. Unfortunately she missed a nap later in the evening and was a bit of a bear around bedtime. Oh well the rest of the day she was a happy baby. We didn't take many pictures (shame on me I know). But here is one with Tessa and Pop.

On Friday, Mimi and Pop were nice enough to offer to babysit Tessa so Tim and I could go out to dinner. Of course Tessa knew something was up and was a little difficult on the way out of the house. But we went anyway and enjoyed ourselves!

Tessa had been waking up 3-5 times a night and things were getting pretty ridiculous so we decided that Saturday would be the day where we let her cry herself to sleep. So starting with the first nap of the day we put a sleepy baby in her crib and let her cry. Thankfully we only had a few times where she cried for 40 minutes or so.

So far things are going well. There's no more bouncing her to sleep for naps and then holding her until she wakes up. And during the night she has been waking up twice and putting herself back to sleep in 10-15 minutes. She has gone 10 hours at night without eating so that's good. Tessa is definitely big enough to make it that long without some food.

So hopefully this will continue and she will get better at sleeping alone. We could all use some good sleep!