A Dreamy Morning

It's been a long four day week around here.  Sunday night the little nugget slept for nine hours straight, but Tuesday night, well Tuesday night was the night from HELL!  I went to put Sylvia to bed after feeding her at 9:30 and she FLIPPED OUT!  She was squirmy and fussy and screaming and crying and it went on and on and onandonandonandonandon!  I tried everything to calm her down and nothing worked for more than two or three minutes, so by 12:30 she was crying and I was crying and it was terrible.  I was convinced that I was a terrible mother because I couldn't take care of my own child and watching her scream and fuss was breaking my heart!  After much trial and error, I figured out that she was only happy when she was kept upright, so I sat with her in my lap on the couch and we both finally fell asleep around 2:00.  The whole time I assumed she was fussy because of the glass of wine I had with dinner, but when I looked into it, I found out that broccoli can really upset breastfed babies as well.  We eat broccoli at least twice a week and we had it on Tuesday night, so when I discovered that piece of information, I was very relieved.  I was much more careful about what I ate on Wednesday and Thursday and it totally did the trick, she's been back to her normal self - thank goodness!  No more broccoli or wine for me!

Today is Oaks Day, the big race before the Big Race tomorrow - The Kentucky Derby!  Turns out schools in our area are off for Oaks Day because the district is smart enough to know that no one would come to school today anyway.  Since Sylvain was home this morning, I handed over Sylvia when she was done eating.  He was watching TV on the couch and I really wanted to eat breakfast without holding a baby - what a treat!  He wrapped her in the blanket he was using to get cozy and what transpired was the sweetest snuggle moment in Fasciotto history...

And snuggle time quickly turned into...

Nap Time!!

Stay tuned for Derby Weekend Festivities!