Sleepy Head

Let's take a minute to talk about how wonderful sleeping babies are. Not only is it your chance as a parent to finally get something done or even sleep yourself, it is just such a sweet moment to see your child resting peacefully. They look beautiful and warm and oh-so-cuddly. It's almost enough to make you want to wake them up and kiss them, but don't you dare do that! Hahaha, well the other morning I posted an Instagram picture of Eva sleeping. I love it when I open the door to her room and she is still alseep. I will be sad one day when it's too stalker-ish to take a photo of her sleeping....you know, like when she's 25.

The photo above is when we put her in her crib for the very first time the night we brought her home. She is so itty-bitty in that giant crib! Mostly she slept in the pack and play or swing for the first month because her crib was too huge.

This is her at 2 months. The photo has pink tent because I took it early in the morning when her pink drapes were closed with the sun shining through. Ahhhh, she looks so precious all swaddled up. She loved being swaddled. And I'm pretty sure that this was back when we could lay her down with her body going across the crib instead of top to bottom. It was so much easier to place her in like that and she was so little that it worked great. 

This is Eva at 4 months. As soon as she could rock her body at all we unwrapped her arms in case she rolled herself over (which didn't happen for many more months) I love her hand up by her face. It's like she's saying "Oooh. It's so exhausting to have to sleep."

This is her at 9 months. It is one of my favorite sleepy time photos because you can see the "LOVE" across her back. I took this photo when Ryan was at camp last summer and remember beaming with joy when I sent it to him. 

This is her at 10 months. She loves this soft blanket and still sleeps with it. I remember smiling so much when I went in to wake her up that morning and she was all cuddled up in the corner. How did she get her blanket to do that all night?

And lastly, this is Eva this week, at 20 months old. She sleeps with a whole army of lovies - her baby, the blue blanket, a sippy cup of water, and a pillow. I always put her down on the pillow all tucked it with her cup on one side and her baby on the other. At some point I guess things get wild in her crib. It makes me laugh when I see her scrunched up to fit in across the crib instead of long ways. Maybe it's because that's how she felt safe when she was little?

In case you couldn't tell, I'm pretty much in love with this sweet sleepy head.