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update on sleep regression: thankfully, she returned back to normal after my post last week, PHEW. not only with her sleep, but her general behavior. everything must have tied back together. finally no crying when leaving the house for daycare, and then going back to sleep around the 8:30 timeframe again. i had another weekend with just her and i again (since carlo has his annual training hell weeks, which means he has to work over the weekend) - and honestly, as she gets older, it gets so much easier and more fun. it would be even EASIER if i wasn't pregnant and it wasn't as much trouble to sit on the floor to play with her (doesn't feel great for my back or legs). it was seriously SO fun to be with her all weekend and doing literally everything together. she loves me so much and i love her right back tenfold. being able to comfort her when she wakes up in the middle of the night (sometimes). reading to her before she sleeps and being able to hold her and being so clo

 OH MAN! last week was a doozy! yesterday was the first day that she went to sleep before 9 (put her to bed at 8:15, which is in the range of what we usually do, which is 8-8:30) hopefully we're back on track. after thinking about it more, we think it was a mixture of 2 things: just a regular sleep regression (due to her age and wanting to test boundaries) and us letting her sleep in late, and hence staying up later, from when she was sick the previous week. lately, we had been letting her sleep in as long as she wanted, which was usually about 7:30 AM (she usually gets up like 6:45) and hence that pushing out her sleeptime for about an hour.. plus she has just been learning SOOOO much CONSTANTLY, we can't even keep track. she surprises us with something new literally every day. it was also a matter of her just testing her boundaries, I think. like, knowing that she doesn't necessarily have to be on our schedule and wanting to stay up and play with us as much as she possibl

 PHEW! OMG we had the HARDEST night on Saturday. When things are smooth and easy, you forget how much of a privilege and gift that really is, lol.. you can skip near the end to read about the actual Saturday and what happened :/ anyhow.. there's been a few things that have been going on. Mya caught a slight sickness on Tuesday night (just a very mild fever for 2 days), so we kept her home from Tues-Fri. we actually did drop her off to daycare on Friday, but got a call an hour later from the school that she wasn't acting like herself (was on the floor and not in the mood to do anything) - but they did confirm she wasn't showing any sick symptoms, but did know that she was out sick the last 2 days. i think she was JUST warming up to class when I just got there - she wasn't in the group activity with the other kids, but standing by herself and kinda smiling looking at something. of course, she did see me and ran to me right away - and at that point, i was just like.. eh, i