It is 4:20 am EST. Moxie is wide awake and bushy tailed. She’s been fed, she’s been changed, heck, she’s even puked. Now, the cherry on this sundae would be her sleeping. Nope! Moxie has more important things to do right now. She needs to look at her reflection in the window, kick her legs out of her swaddle, and stick her tongue out at her dad as he tries to rock her to sleep. She’s a cute sleeper. Maybe if she knew that she would do it right now…

Moxie is a really good sleeper.

Photographic Vivasection

She is also a noisy sleeper. I don’t know how sleep habits change as a baby grows.

But I’ll take noisy good sleeper over quiet crap sleeper any day. She also makes the cutest wake up faces and her bed head looks strangely like her dad.

Before I go to sleep I just wanted to post a quick note about Moxie’s badass dad and my super husband (who, luckily, are one in the same).  He is taking the midnight and 3am feedings tonight so I can have my first bit of sleep longer than 1.5 hours since Moxie’s birth.  He is armed with 8 oz of breast milk, a pediatric feeding tube, and some pillows for the couch.  He’s the absolute best.

If it ain’t black, it ain’t.

Water has broken, onto the kitchen floor,

With each coughing, a full pint more,
I laughed and I laughed, a very bad idea,
But still I maintain, better than diarrhea
Midwife has spoken, pack up the car,
Jess is a trooper, revived by a shower,
Praise for the baby bag, for an easy bon jour,
Praise for the Wendy’s, open 24-hour.
(with apologies to Eleanor Farjoen)
We are at the hospital.  We have a nurse named Charlotte.    The baby has not arrived, so we’re all awkwardly standing around.
Jess is asleep, thankfully.  The midwife comes tomorrow when labour is active.  (She never eats the crust, either.)
A warning to interested parties: We will not be able to take the baby home with us because we brought so much stuff.  They will hold her for us, though, so we will be able to pick her up next time we make it to Rockville.