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  • Taken after the fifth waking tonight. Poor little sparkle pants is teething something terrible. It's only just midnight. No time for mama to do anything crafty. But I want to remember  Late nights just us, snuggled up and happy getting milky. Coming to the crib, barely awake Tutu hardly making a sound, just lifting up her tiny arms for me. The way she moves around before she falls asleep, finally putting one arm out to the side when she drifts off. Patting her back and waiting for her breathing to slow down, signaling sleep. Her little tiny soft hairs sticking…

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  • Or “What we are doing at 1:27 AM” Everything is making her crazy giggly happy excited. I’m just trying not to fall asleep.

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  • (I think this says, "I've got them right where I want them.")  I pulled a mama card today and handed over all feast making duties to Bj. This turned out to be a wonderful idea since Tuesday did not want to rest at all and wanted lots of mama cuddles and turns out Bj can cook a great Thanksgiving dinner!   I wanted to do something at the beginning of the meal that we could hold on to – a new tradition. So I came up with an idea for everyone to write their thanks on scraps of paper along…

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