Harper's First Night Away From Home

This week we had a few firsts for Harper. On Tuesday evening, Will and I took the trip with Harper and Lilly to southern Virginia to visit with my father-in-law. We had a very enjoyable night and even Grace ( Tom's dog) really liked Harper.

Tom (my father-in-law) with Grace and Harper

Proud Dad!

With this being Harper's first night away from home our goal was to have her up for most of the evening so she would sleep through the night. Yet, this did not happen but for 20 minutes. Which meant that it was going to be a long night for me and it was. 

For most of the evenings, she only wakes around 4 am and if we are really lucky (like last night) she will sleep until 6 am. This night she decided to do neither. At 11:30, she feel completely asleep after her feeding. Only sleeping until1:30 when she was hungry again. Right after her feeding she went right back to sleep but woke up again at 3:30 until 4:30. So, needless to say this was a really LLLLOOOONNNGG night! 

I think I have gotten so lucky with her sleeping that it really threw me off that she did this. Luckily, my father-in-law was not going into work unitl noon so he was able to watch her for a little while so I could sleep in. Later that day, we decided to stay one more night since Will did not get back from NC until late in the evening. This night was completely different for her sleeping. Harper actually went to bed at 11:30 and slept until 5:30. So, I got plenty of rest and made up for the loss of sleep the night before. Hopefully, Harper is now more adjusted to staying away from our home.