Maya's A+ day

I may be jinxing it by writing this post at 3:30pm, but Maya is having an amazing day today, and I wanted to share it with all of you. I'm not in the habit of grading Maya, but if I was, today would definitely be an A+ day.

It all started this morning, when I woke up at 8:30am after an amazing night's sleep. Maya fell asleep last night around 11:30pm and only woke up one time, at 3:45am for a quick feeding. Then she fell back asleep for another 4 hours. This means I got 8 hours of sleep!! I feel so amazing today. Even more important, she fell asleep last night without a single cry. Its a huge accomplishment, because the last week or so has been tough. She started resisting bed time, and was definitely pretty vocal about it! But after a few nights of some tough love (which I absolutely hated, but I do believe in teaching her how to start to become self sufficient), she is back to being a great sleeper. For now...

After her breakfast, she was in a great mood. We went to stroller strides, where we met up with her BFF Ella.
After getting nice and sweaty, the 4 of us hung out at the courtyard of the Pru, where Maya and Ella both had an early lunch while Ella's mom, Annie, and I caught up on her big move to Wellseley. Then we headed over to the Barnes & Noble, where I was supposed to only buy a book for a friend. Instead, I bought 4 books for Maya:


We are really into books now, especially as part of our naptime & bedtime routine. Maya loves it when I read to her, and I'm hoping to create a future bookworm, just like I was!

Maya was still so happy to be hanging out with Ella and Annie, so we went for a walk over to Newbury Street, and checked out the ridiculously cute clothes of Petite Bateau. Very French, ooh la la, but way too expensive for such short-time use. We're very happy with Target & Baby Gap! (Uncle Eddie, are you reading?)

We came home around 1pm, and after she ate we played in her bouncy seat. She was so smiley, and cute, so I ran to get the video camera. But by the time I came back, she was starting to get just a little bit fussy.



I'm trying to be better about reading her sleep cues, and I figured she was getting tired from her hectic morning. So I swaddled her up, read her a story and put her down in her crib without a peep! She's still sleeping there now, sweet as can be.

All in all, I think she's cried for like 10 minutes in the last 24 hours. I love my good little baby!!