Alyssia has been an army crawler for some time now. She almost never does a proper crawl. Today, however, she crawled half way across her room, on her hands and knees, with her belly off the floor. Supposedly, according to her doctor, it doesn't matter how they crawl, as long as they're doing something. All the same, it was nice to see her doing something different and enjoying herself. Last night was a little difficult. Daddy put her to sleep the first time and it took him an hour of put-down, put-down to accomplish it. I went to bed around 11 and then she woke up at 11:30 (of course). I waited for a little while to see if she would settle herself down, but she was escalating so I went in. Then she was up again at 4:30. It took a good 40 minutes to get her back down, so when 7 a.m. rolled around, she was still sleeping and I was too tired to get up. So we slept until 9:00. Probably a big mistake because now she's off her schedule for the whole day. To compensate, I skipped the morning nap and took her for walk in the neighborhood instead. Poor little thing was so tired by the time I put her down after lunch that she could hardly keep her eyes open. I hope she gets a good nap. We'll see how this change in schedule affects bedtime.

So she took a 2 1/2 hour nap and then at bedtime, she was WIRED. So we went for another walk, which seemed to relax her a bit. I got her down pretty easily around 8:45. That's much later than she's supposed to go down, but hopefully we'll be back on track tomorrow.