Parley's Patterns

Parley is 6 1/2 weeks old now, and the past week or so, he's settled into some patterns. I know our life is going to continue changing drastically as Parley gets older, but I don't want to forget the rhythm of our life right now. 

On good days, I stay awake for the day around 8am. Nikki watches Parley while I take a bath. We love to go on a walk every day. It's usually around 11am. We give Parley a bath around 5pm. I try to go to bed for the night around 7pm. Besides that during the day I do things from my chair. Parley eats pretty often throughout the day, and he's been way more awake and loves to be held. So I have great snuggles with him plus doing things like finding an apartment, working on thank you notes, fixing my irb application, etc. from my chair. 

I try to go to bed at 7pm, but it usually doesn't work. For a few hours sometime between 7 and 11:30 pm, Parley is usually very hungry and very sensitive. He eats and eats and screams a lot, and we try so hard to figure out what is wrong and try to make him happy. Around 11:30 pm to 8 am, he usually settles down and gets very sleepy. He wakes up every couple hours to eat and then goes right back to sleep. So I get sleep then too. 

I started this post Friday evening. I stopped because I was getting too sleepy to stay awake while writing. Since then, I've had two tough nights and weird days where Parley did not follow his patterns, and I was up a lot. But, I'm pretty sure tonight he's going to have the best night of his life and start a new pattern of sleeping a lot every night. You can't have faith and fear at the same time. :)