New car and sleeping

Last night we picked up our new Saturn Vue and went for frozen yogurt to celebrate. (We can always find a reason to go to Capn Dusty's.) It is the first time we have purchased a new car in our entire lives. It is nice and shiny and has that new car smell. Munchie's stroller is already inside and a car seat base was installed by a nice Saturn worker. It is indeed an SUV, but a small one with decent gas mileage. We always thought our next car would be a hybrid or get 30 miles to the gallon. However, a hybrid's engine just doesn't have the pep I need to get onto 128 without being crushed by cars doing 70, and cars that get great gas mileage are tiny. Babies may be small and compact, but their gear is not, and we needed enough trunk space to haul a stroller and groceries.

On to my next topic -- sleep. Little Munchie for almost a week was sleeping 7 hours, but it kept getting less and less. Last night he got up at 2. UGH! I fed him in bed, changed his diaper and hopped back in bed to continue nursing. He ate his fill and laid there cooing and playing with his arms and legs. He was actually using his arms and legs to scoot over to me so he could continue to suckle -- not to eat but just to have in his mouth. I have a low tolerance for that. I'm not a toy and it hurts when it isn't actual nursing. By 4 I'd had enough and to his Dad he went. The little bugger fell asleep after 15 minutes of walking around.

I'm hoping that nice long sleeping stretch makes a comeback. I'd also like to work on getting him to sleep in a cradle or his crib -- enough with the car seat.