Wow he's such a good baby, so sleepy!

Almost 6 months in you would think there would be more to taking care of this new life than constant relief that he is asleep. First, relief that he fell asleep! Then, relief that he stayed asleep after the 45 minute sleep cycle! Constant rechecking of the baby monitor!! 

The obsession I experience with Lucas sleeping well makes me look back at silly old me from Day 1 and ridicule Day 1 Mom's admiration of her newborn baby from the delivery bed: "oh he's so quiet! He's such a good baby! Falls asleep so easily!"

Those nurses must have smirked big time behind my back. I know I would have! (Yet another reason I could never be a delivery nurse) little did ignorant old me know that all newborns are sleepy and quiet. They are just shocked from coming out of the womb. Those first 24 hours when they are in the hospital, you think you have an angel, because all they do is sleep, without any intervention from you. You leave the hospital and all those experienced helping hands and they turn into crying machines that want you to help them sleep. Hahaha

That is why it's always relief to see this:

I can't complain though, my little man is a sleeper. That's all he wants in life.