Pro re nata.

Maybe I should just rename it to the Weekly Dose. Oh well. So Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Dr. Marc Weissbluth? Amazing. It works. About 1 week into training, Lucy's pretty much sleeping through the night. If she does wake up, she can get herself back to sleep. And today, she had a 2 hour morning nap and a 2.5 hour afternoon nap. Amazing. And since she goes to bed at 6:45pm, Tracy and I actually have dinner, together, at the dining room table even. It's kind of crazy. New iMac (Mid 2010) showed up on Tuesday, kind of worked on getting it set up, and still working thought Aperture. It's impressive, but lots of capabilities, and there's lots to learn. Just trying to figure out how to organize photos in projects, folders, albums, keywords, libraries. Lots to go on. But some great functionality. Probably going to be a while until I figure out a good workflow I'm happy with. Handbrake transcodes fly on it. We're calling it TEAMac. Also loving the built in SD slot. Except right now I'm typing this up on my old MacBook. Just can't use TEAMac on the couch. Had date dinner Friday night at Wakamono at 5pm. Even then we were late getting Lucy back in time for bedtime, so she went down late, and woke up a couple times that night. Routine is good. Saturday slung her up in the Baby K'Tan and went to Green City Market and delightful pastries]]. Sunday went out to the {Argaos]] to visit and pick up supplies at the Target. And Monday just hung out at home with the sleeping baby. Kind of nice. Lucy's got her 4 month checkup tomorrow, and I have to go into the office Wednesday through Friday. Thinking about biking, but I'm not sure if I want to show up sweaty.

Seriously, work and Lucy are keeping me busy. Seriously busy. Even my internet consumption is decreasing. And that's really something. So my internet production is way off as well. Biggest news? We seriously started sleep training Lucy. Which means extinction. Which works. Saturday night she cried for 54 minutes. But then she pretty much slept through the night. Work up around 10pm and again around 12am, but no getting, just fuss a little, then back to sleeping. Sunday night only 28 minutes of crying, and sleeping through the night until 4am, and a little crying, sleeping, crying, sleeping. She seems pretty happy when we go get her in the morning, so she doesn't hate us. So that's good. Also we're putting her down around 6:30pm, instead of 8pm like before. But of course we did all these changes at the same time, so not sure what's the most effective change. Oh, and she's been getting up around 7am too. So that's plenty of sleep. Not that I took advantage of it at all this weekend. I stayed up working. Fun stuff, but still working. Loving Netflix Watch Instantly via the Wii. Plowing through Coupling and finished off Season 1 of Better Off Ted. Saturday night I stayed in and watched the sleeping baby and made cookies while Tracy went to a April's brother's homecoming party. Oh, I was on daddy daycare all weekend too. Managed to give Lucy a bath all by myself both days. She's turning into quite the splasher. Also made some fresh pasta for dinner on Saturday night. I think before I was using too much water. This time the dough was almost too dry to work with, but a couple times through the rollers and it worked out. Tracy made a nice fresh mushroom/butter/wine sauce. And we managed to eat dinner together.

So Lucy didn't get up for a feeding last night. I did get up multiple times to put get her pacifier back in her mouth, which seemed to quiet her down and put her back to sleep. Not sure if that was good or bad. Good for no feeding, bad because of the pacifier. Fingers crossed for tonight. I also ended up sleeping in the recliner in her room, and turning off the baby monitor and letting Tracy sleep some since she had Lucy all day. But otherwise, just another Thursday. Breakfast, lunch, dinner at mom's, working from home.

New iMac (Mid 2010) shipped tonight. Yay. Last desktop Mac that was actually used as a desktop and not a server? I think a Cube. Seriously. Laptops ever since. Got my Twelve South Compass iPad Mobile Stand today. Really really useful. Got one for my mom too. More useful around the house than the Apple iPad Case. Tracy had the day off, so she took care of Lucy all day. They went to Green City Market and took a long walk back through the zoo and the parks. Ate leftovers for meals today. Tracy's working this weekend, so I've got Lucy duty all weekend. For work been playing with jQuery, which is pretty freakin' awesome. Seriously. Very very nice and smooth development. Very polished. Was working on it last night, and only wanted to nap on the couch, but ended up sleeping there for the night. Whoops.

So the other day, Tracy got invited to play Words with Friends by Lisa. Then I got it. And then I got hooked. And then I lost to Tracy 4 games in a row. Then I found a scrabble cheater website, and then I won the 5th game, and now I won't use the website again. And now I'm playing games against April and Lisa. Not cheating in those games either. And started doing crosswords again. Which is funny because I'm horrible at word games of any kind. So I fully expect to keep losing as long as I'm not cheating. Lucy still not sleeping through the night. Found out you get a return fee for bringing back Oberweis milk bottles back to Treasure Island. Also had a glass of chocolate milk with lunch. Made myself an english muffin ham, egg & cheese breakfast sandwich. Went over to my mom's for dinner (chicken, risotto, asparagus). Watched Eureka, My Boys, and some Netflix Coupling. When I update 2 days in a row, I run out of things to say.

Monday. First day of the week. And already it's pretty rough. Lucy's still not back to sleeping through the night. I'm wondering if she'll ever get back to that one week before we screwed it all up. She's eating more though, so maybe a full belly will keep her down for the night. Fingers crossed. So Saturday went to Oakbrook Center for some shopping, and stopped by the Apple Store to check out iMac and Macbook Pros, and it was crazy busy. I had to go in alone, couldn't bring in Tracy and Lucy in the stroller. Super crazy busy. Finally got Tracy an office chair for work. Put that together Sunday morning. Finally watched Avatar Saturday night. Also got the Netflix Wii Play instantly disc. That is amazing. Streaming video on demand? The future. It's here. Sunday went out to Orland Park for more shopping and to visit the in-laws, since they're leaving to visit Baniella for a while. Walked around the mall with Lucy in the Baby K'tan, which she loved. Much better than a carseat/stroller. She even managed a nap for a bit. That Apple Store was a little quieter, and managed to show Tracy that the 21" iMac wasn't that big, so she agreed, and I ordered it this morning. So hopefully that means quicker posting of videos and photos. On the ride back in yesterday Lucy cried the whole time. I'm guessing she's done with the carseat for a while. We need to give her a break from that.