the art of the napping baby, etc...

It is getting easier and easier to get L to take a nap during the day.  He has this uncanny nack of going to bed in the evening very well, but the daytime?  Forget it!  I think a lot of it has to do with the light in the room, TV in the den, etc...  Too much external stimulation.  Thanks to my friends I met in our labor class, things have improved.  Happy baby equals happy mommy for sure!  He is sleeping now taking his first nap of the day.  Fingers crossed it will last more than 30 minutes!

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I finally did it.  I dug up the tree in the backyard yesterday after trying my best to help it survive.  The story goes like this...  I bought this red coral japanese maple to plant during a time in my life when I was struggling with fertility.  I really wasn't struggling in the broad sense of the medical definition, but I was struggling in my own way with my own timeline... which if you know me, I have very little patience (unfortunately).

I found this sweet tree and planted it to sort of mark a time in my life to remember.

The freeze in April 2007 really took a toll on the tree.  Half of it died, and it continued to struggle.  I finally gave up.  Even though it represented that time in my life and after that the miscarriage, I still thought it was time to let it go.

This is prior to digging it up.  I'm going to have to find another pretty tree that is a little hardier.