Happy 7 month Birthday Matty!!!!

For Matty's 7 month birthday he received and gave his dad and I a beautiful present: he slept through the night for a full 12 hours last night!!!!! Amazing sleep miracle of the life of Mr. Matthew Voudouris - sleep master extravaganzer.... it's a long answer as to how he did that, and not the time to explain - see reasons for this below in the typer's block entry - but just know that we're SOOOO PROUD OF OUR LITTLE GUY!!! And thankful to God for prayers of great proportions answered in this arena ---- that coming from a new mom who's had 7 full months of irregular sleep, to say the least (not to mention the not sleeping periods of my pregnancy) but I'm not complaining... I actually enjoyed the middle of the night feedings as someone on this blog advised me to do before giving birth to Matty. And, I didn't even get the sleep I could have gotten last night because I was too busy watching Matthew sleep to see if he was going to wake up and how he was dealing with not waking up when he usually was waking up and I didn't want to get so deep into my sleep that I wasn't ready when he was going to wake up so I was up from 4:30-6am as you can see with so much to do in my brain... I know. I'm a little odd... but sleep has become a relative thing that doesn't have to be at night for me any more... well, until now that it can be again - I also missed him in the middle of the night, if you can believe that. So instead of getting to cuddle and feed him and rock him back to sleep, all I could do was look at him and long to hold him, but also marvel at his sleeping sleeping sleeping and rolling and fidgeting and not waking up... oh that's my boy!! Question of the week--- how long will this last? Is it a fluke or the real thing to rest in and expect? He's slept 8-9 hours through before, but then he reverted to waking up 1-3 times per night, so I don't want to get my hopes up just yet, but as I said, what a beautiful 7mo birthday marker to remember and celebrate for years to come.... Oct 4th, the day of the sleep miracle...

typer's, not writer's block...

I have a lot to update on the blog, but can;t really do so very effectively because of my hurt wrist that's been in a cast for 3 weeks and now in a full-time brace and needs PT for 4 weeks... so typing with one hand or the occasional cheat job with both and effectively wearing the hurt one out in the process thus prolonging the healing process is not conducive to writing the lengthy blog entries that I have stored up in my juicy journal in my head ----therefore, I write this entry to say that there are a plentiful of potential entries to come and some super exciting newses to report and record... so please pray for the healing time on my wrist to be shortened or my right handed typing skills to improve - actually I'd prefer the first prayer and for the healing to be complete and thorough so I can go back to doing a number of other essential things without having to use one hand or compromising the strength and pain of the left - like bathing, changing, playing with, lifting or holding Matty - of cause I'm doing all those things, but as described in that last sentence there about the compromise etc... I think one handed typing causes me to have run-on sentences galore! Stay tuned for the Very exciting newses... are you in suspense or what???