90% Luck/ 10% Technique

Lucky, I know. Ed's been on the night shift for about 4 nights now as I fight off the sinus congestion that has taken over my head and chest. I even went to the doc for some more serious meds. Thus the reason Ed is on night watch, so I can take the meds that will most be able to help, but make me very drowsy. Maybe Josie is giving dada an easy time, maybe it's luck, maybe it's technique - no matter what the reason, we can not believe how LUCKY we are that little Josie slept 8 whole hours last night. EIGHT! I don't claim to have a super human secret to lasting night sleep - but what we're doing has seemed to work. So I give credit 90% to Josie having the best temperment, but maybe 10% credit to our bedtime routine and conscious effort to keep her nights and days balanced.

And I'm moving right along with adding pages to Josie's baby book. I have so many ideas in my head, I can't scrap them fast enough. So here's the story of her name :)

Dad and I had tossed around names that we liked for the last few years. We thought girls names were so easy, and boys names were tough. Even so, we never said “That’s the name if we have a girl!”, but had a list in our minds of possibilities. When we became “paper pregnant” waiting for word from the agency of a match, we said we should get more serious about a name b/c we could get the call any day and be surprised. Yet, we never thought that would really happen, so still – no official girl name. Then the call came. The surprise call on a Sunday afternoon that there was a little girl that was possibly ours. You. From Sunday when we first learned of you, until the time we knew for sure you would be coming home with us, we didn’t even discuss names. The whirlwind of calling friends and family, wrapping up work and getting all the details ironed out consumed our day. It wasn’t until 10pm, Monday night, the night before we were to come bring you home, did dad and I sit down and get serious. We’d tossed around names, like Tessa, Lauren, Isobel… but came back to Joselyn over and over. I’ve long adored the nickname Josie since I met a Josie years ago and never forgot how sweet I thought that name was. Now, I couldn’t picture you having any other name. Dada’s favorite was also Joselyn, and Josie for short. Middle names were more tricky! I wanted something short and cute to sandwich between Joselyn and our last name, and after searching far and wide for the perfect middle name, Ann it was. Ann is a long family middle name, including myself and your Grandma Dorothy to name a few. Joselyn Ann it was to be.