SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 11:56 AM, EDT

Here is a time table of Ally's Night:

6:00 - showing signs of being tired
6:30 - gets a 2nd wind
6:45 - bath for about 1.5 minutes
7:30 - really tired
7:45 - bed time (in her crib) with about 10 minutes of fussing

11:30 - Ally decides sleeping with Mommy and Daddy is WAY better than her stupid crib. This means Mommy and Daddy have to work together (in the dark) to unplug Ally's IV machine, wheel it into our room (around all the bags we still have to unpack) and find a place to plug it back in. Then Ally proceeds to take up as much space in our Queen sized bed as she can.

4:00AM - the alarm goes off for us to give her morphine. Ally takes this opportunity to tell us she wants to eat. (She has a cute word that sounds like nnnyum.) We manage to convince her to sleep for 30 more minutes.

4:30 AM - Daddy carries the heavy IV pole and machine down the stairs. Mommy makes Ally pancakes (microwave). Ally eats 2 bites then snuggles up with Mommy on the couch.

4:45AM - 7:00AM - Ally dozes, asks for pancakes about every 15 minutes or so, then dozes again. I think she did do one stretch of about 45 minutes of sleeping. Around 5:30ish her IV machine beeps that her fluids are done. We spend about 5 minutes, with the lights on flushing her lines and disconnecting her.

7:00AM - Ally is up for the day.

We are planning on putting the air mattress in her room tonight.

We even got to take her for a walk outside this morning!