Well it's been almost a week of solid nights' sleep in our house - yeah! Very counter-intuitively, I feel a little more tired than usual now. I guess I'd been running on Adrenaline in lieu of sleep for the past 20 months and my body hasn't yet caught-up.

Enough about Mama though... Gus just came down with a cold (yes, again) and is feeling really cruddy. As yucky as he may feel he's in good spirits and still a joy to hang out with - and even has enough energy at times to dance a little. His dancing abilities are really in full force. As of yesterday, he bounces and shimmies and does some pretty impressive deep-knee-bends anytime there's a lull in the action. Hopefully quite soon, we'll be able to capture it on tape and post it here, in the meantime though:

Here's just a little something!

Sleep Update:

For the VERY FIRST TIME EVER Gus slept through the entire night last night! He conked-out at 7:45 pm and slept without so much as a peep until quarter to 6 this morning!!!

P.S. That means I got roughly 7 consecutive(!) hours myself!

P.P.S. If this trend continues, you're sure to see new posts EVERYDAY, instead of biannually (or close to it ;)

music man

He's very musical, there's no doubt about that. We've always known that Gus takes after his papa with his penchant for percussion, but he's expanded his repertoire to include all sorts of instruments. At Grammy's house over the holidays we could barely pry him from the piano bench. Gus has turned into quite the songster and he's very delicate with the piano keys - and this makes me very happy...

Of course, so does this (less delicate performance):

Christmas #2

This was Gus' 2nd ever Christmas and this time around he knew something exciting was going on. We were in Oroville and Chico with lots of family and friends, and of course, the Cousins-Cousins. Boy, does he ever look up to Maia and Jonah! The three of them were super cute together and ever since we left CA (with the kids' influence in-tow) it seems Gus has grown-up about 8 years - he's very sophisticated now...