Mission Accomplished

You read it right. Mission: "sleeping child" is accomplished. As of last night, we can now do our bedtime routine and then put Poppy in her bed, say goodnight and leave the room. And she falls asleep all by herself and continues to sleep all night long, all by herself. This is something that I honestly did not think would ever happen. And it was so much easier than we anticipated. Every night when we hear her fall asleep, we both sit on the couch and just keep saying to each other, "I can't believe it! I can't believe it actually worked!" (As I'm typing this, Marc just said "I still can't believe she sleeps through the night now- it's a friggin' miracle!") And I can't get over the change in Poppy during the day either! She wakes up so happy, she is never crabby in the morning like she used to be, and is just extra cute and full of energy all day long. Tantrums are far and few-between.  And nap-times are still the same amount of time, and sometimes even longer than before! I can go on and on about the changes we've seen in Little Miss over the past month, but I'll hold off until her 23 month post in a couple of days.

Lately, if she is having any fun at all, her tongue has to be outside of her mouth.

Whistling for the elephants at the zoo.

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My friends Christa and Michelle both met their babies from S.Korea this week, which was so incredibly exciting. I'm trying my hardest to leave them alone because I know how hard those first couple of days/weeks can be, but their little boys are sooo cute, I can hardly wait for updates!  It's bringing back so many memories of our first days with Poppy. Speaking of which, we have our referral-versary coming up next week!

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And finally breakfast with the Easter Bunny at the zoo this morning...

Apparently the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are working together to scare the crap out of Poppy.

One of my all-time fave Poppy faces.