Yesterday, I took Mio to Annandale to meet my friend Erri and her two adorable children, Audrey and Brennan. Audrey is almost four, and Brennan is almost eight months old — about five months older than Mio! It was their first playdate together and Mio had a great time, as you can see from her smiles here…
Look at that huge smile! Mio is so happy to meet Audrey and Brennan.
Mio looks so smug here. Brennan is so cute!!!
Later in the evening, we went to Sushi Yoshi in Vienna to have dinner with my girlfriends from high school. It was so much fun catching up with everyone and introducing them to Mio. Thank you Debbie for organizing the dinner!
With some of my girlfriends from Madison High School
Although Mio has been smiling for about a month now, her smiles have been few and far between. But since arriving in Virginia, she’s been smiling a lot for everyone, particularly for her obaachan (grandmother). 🙂
(She’s not smiling in these last couple ones, but I thought they were also cute grandmother-granddaughter moments… :))
When Mio was still in my belly, everyone teased us about the lack of sleep we’d get once she was out. Although we expected to have sleepless nights, nothing can truly prepare you for it. In all honesty, it sucks. Mio has hijacked our sleep schedule for the past couple months, but we can’t hate her for it — she’s a newborn, and it’s what babies do. So we have been at her mercy for the past couple months…
But last night was different. We put her down to sleep in her nursery at around 11pm, and as I do every night, I mentally prepared myself to wake up 3 or 4 hours later to her cries. I went to sleep too, so I could get as much rest as possible before the middle-of-the-night feeding.
When I awoke to her cries, I strangely felt much more well-rested than usual. Rubbing my eyes, I looked at the clock and was aghast to see that it was almost 7am!
What I had only dreamed of in the past two months had happened — she slept through the night. For EIGHT hours! On her own — no sleeping training or anything!
I don’t dare assume that this will be a regular thing from hereon just yet… but I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel! 🙂
Mio, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after 8 hours of sleep.
