Bad Sleep and Normal Schedule

So, we've been getting really bad sleep for weeks.  I mean, there was the two weeks I was on nights, a week in Texas, and then it took three weeks after that for everything to be sorta right.  There was a developmental phase and teething.  Sure enough, she was either awake for two hours in the middle of the night or thrashing around.

It is a funny realization when after 5 months of wishing baby girl would wake up after 7:00am, then she finally starts waking up at 7:00am (after being awake for 2 hours in the middle of the night), and all I want is for her to go back to waking up at 5:30am again.  I built my routine around her going to bed around 8:00pm and waking up at 5:30am.  I might get to snooze by myself for 15 minutes.  We play, we eat, we take a walk.  We try to drink coffee.  When she takes a long nap, I get to get ready for work and poke around on the computer.  With her waking up at 7:00am, I lost my getting ready for work time, cooking time, showering time, and we lost our morning walk.

I knew the 7:00am wake up couldn't last.  I suppose I don't care what kind of crazy sleep schedule she has, just as long as it's some kind of consistent.  That way, we can build our schedules around her crazy.

This morning, she woke up at 5:30am, and it was the most wonderful thing.   And, I will deny that I ever said that.