Two Babies in a Glider

The wide bug eyes of a six-week-old:
Two cute siblings!

My cute boy says "Hi Mary!" and suggests she eat the ball. Then he puts the (soft) ball (gently) on her nose, which makes her fuss a little. (I don't know why the camera was going in and out of focus when I was sitting still and the glider wasn't moving. The video feature has been doing that lately.)

On a different topic, Mary is a very pleasant sleeper--at least so far in her six weeks on the outside. She began "sleeping through the night" (by definition, a five-hour stretch) within a week or so, I seem to recall. Her current pattern is to be asleep for the night around 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. She wakes very reliably at 2:00 a.m. (brief nursing, no crying), 4:00 a.m. (brief nursing, no crying), then at 5:00 a.m. for a long nursing and diaper change. (In the last week, she has not been requiring mid-night diaper changes!) Usually Mary has just fallen asleep when John wakes as if by alarm clock at 6:00 a.m. Then Mary continues what I consider her night sleeping for another one to two hours during which time I'm up with John (unless Chris gifts me with sleeping in, which he has often during his Christmas vacation). I won't rehash how John has slept for the last two years, but if we could survive that, we were prepared for anything . . . anything but an easy sleeper! Of course, now I know enough about infants not to rely on her pattern remaining so easy, but it might. And to answer the obvious question, I have not done anything differently concerning sleep with the two siblings--this difference appears to be one of temperament.