trying to get a few more minutes of sleep

for the past month or so henny has been waking up around 5 or so. sometimes earlier, sometimes a very few minutes later. this wouldn't be so bad if we didn't feel like we had gotten comfortably past the whole baby-being-up-in-the-night thing. i guess we had gotten used to sleeping until a luxurious 6am. 

the new sleep routine coincided with henny's new found ability to crawl and the sun rising around 5. i guess it's a combination of his room (which faces the sunrise) being very bright and his new love of life and movement. so on the worst days i have found myself nursing him before 5am. not back to sleep, mind you, just to quiet him for a few minutes before we begin the day! 

we just went with the flow for a bit but recently decided that we need to do something. D had a brilliant idea: curtains! we already had blinds on the windows but they were useless against the sunrise. but of course we can't just go out and buy curtains because i have the delusion that i should make them. but first, we decided that we must test the theory. so, up went the quilt. the room was instantly dark dark dark. 

and guess what? we have actually snuck out about 3 extra minutes of sleep, each day, for the past week and today i got henny up to nurse at a wonderful, extravagant 5:48 am. how about that?

obviously the later sleep is the best part of this saga, but a close second is the absolute beauty of the quilt on the window. the way the light shines through, i'm sure it's better than any curtain we will get.