Another Nap Time

I read The Help a few months ago for my book group and really loved it.

I found out last night that "they" are making a movie out of it! And Emma stone is going to play Skeeter! And I love Emma Stone!

She is such a funny actress, and she looked totally amazing at the Golden Globes on Sunday. I was rooting for her to win best actress. 

Did you know she's naturally a blonde?

She is in my top five favorite actresses for sure:
Kate Winslet
Kate Hudson
Blake Lively

Emma Stone

Sarah Chalke

I guess I have a thing for blondes

I accidentally woke Tate up when I went to check on her before I went to bed.

We walked into her room and she actually sat up but was totally out of it. So we just stood really still and were hoping she wouldn't see us. Then she turned her head and looked at me and then looked back at her bed in very slow motion. For some reason I thought this was super funny, and I started to laugh. I was cracking up, I couldn't stop! So I tried to run quietly back to my room, but by then she was awake and wondering what her crazy mom was doing. So she had a rough time going back down from that. But she slept until morning once she finally calmed down.

I'm calling it a successful 5th night :)

Catching up on My ZZZZ's

Seems like every time I decide to post I get distracted changing up my background, or my header, and then Tatum wakes up. 
Not today!

So Tate is 17 months now, and I decided it was high time she started sleeping through the night. We had her trained so well when she was tiny. With the help of Baby Wise she was sleeping through the night at 3 months. We had a good run of that, until we started moving all over the country this summer. And ever since then she has been getting up, usually once, sometimes twice a night.

Luckily she would go back down after we got her a bottle. But really 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is so so soo much different then breaking the REM cycle once or twice.


I'd read on different websites that you just have to let them cry it out for a couple of nights. I have been wanting to do this for a long time, but Greg couldn't handle her crying. I don't know if he felt bad for her, or just wanted to get back to sleep himself as soon as possible. I finally convinced him that we just had to stick it out and do it. 


My friend Mirium told me it would take 3 nights. Three nights, thats not so bad.

Thursday night - somehow she slept the entire night through. Weird. 

Friday night - woke up at 1 and cried on and off (pretty hard) for a little over an hour. That wasn't too bad.


Saturday night - woke up at 4:30 and cried on and off for about 2 hours. That night sucked.

Sunday night, last night, a miracle - slept from her 8 o'clock bed time till 7:30 this morning! Or at least she didn't wake us up if she woke up.


I'm really hoping this means that the cycle is broken, and it wasn't just a random fluke like Thursday night. I'm going to keep telling myself it is. I guess we'll see tonight!