We voted and then watched History happen!

We voted and then spent the evening worrying about the results. We are not completely out of the woods yet here is California but for the nation we have some relief. Barack Obama is our President-Elect and I am proud to be a part of this historic event and to be able to say that our country may be moving into a new and positive direction if Mr. Obama is the man we have come to know him to be! I am excited to see...

Times they are a'changin'

So today was the time change (for those in states that do not do this time change, it is the time when we lose 1 hour). When Isabel was first born I was asked many times if I found it difficult when the time changed. She was born in February so our first change was in the spring when she was about 2 months old, didn't notice anything, but that was probably because she had only just figured out the whole night and day thing and was just starting to sleep at night more than during the day. The next change was in the fall when Izzy was about 9 months and we were just starting to get her to sleep in her own bed and she was still having trouble sleeping through the night because of that change. There was still very little structure to her sleep and waking and she had two naps in the day still. So I do not remember it being that influential on any of her sleep or affecting our sleep that much. This Spring, there was nothing that could affect us, being that we were barely keeping up and Isabel still had two naps a day so we filled our days with sleep rather than activity. This change in the time, however, has had a significant affect on all of us. Isabel gets up at the crack of dawn every morning and this morning was more crackin' than usual as she woke at her normal time in a time of change!!!! So we were off whack by an hour all day. She napped early, she ate early, she needed to be exercised and tired out early and because of all of this, she went to bed... late? Well, Earl said we should push her bedtime to a little later and that appeared to work but it has been an insane day of change!