5 3/4 Months

Big news! Thomas has slept through the night twice! And last night he woke up but didn't drink! Thanks to Mom for soothing him back to sleep without me. What is the big change, you ask? We have started keeping him more awake in the evenings and also feeding him solids! Thanks, Jocelyn, for reminding me that I really do want him to sleep the whole night through!

Lots of things have been happening this week, but I don't have a lot of time to write. We are in the middle of preparations to visit Matthew in Newark this weekend, travelling for the first time with Thomas. Mom, Dad, Thomas and I will join Matthew and we will have a day or two in New York. On the agenda: Japanese Kinokuniya bookstore, Empire State building, and Ellis Island ferry. I hope we can do it all: there is a lot of built-in downtime, but if we can't see it all, it's no big deal. Looking forward to it, though.

Tonight Thomas had a great time playing with Auntie Jerryl from work. They got along really well. Mom cooked up a huge Chinese feast, including a delicious Champagne cake for dessert. Mmmmmm! Jerryl is the one who painted the huge Nemo mural on Thomas' bedroom wall. Lloyd and Anne will become very familiar with it when they come to visit! We're very excited!

And time has gone by really fast. Last time I wrote that Mom and Dad are going back to Wisconsin in one or two months . .. . . but really they're leaving within two weeks! How devastating that will be! But we will have a plan of action to visit each other monthly over the summer . . . then for the winter, maybe we'll see each other much more often. I hope. Crossed fingers. We'll see what the future brings!