Coughing and Sleeping

• We're sick. Again. Yes, it had been, what, a week or two since our last bout of illness? It's a coughing thing--horrible-sounding cough, mild fever, body aches, etc.
  
  We started coming down with it Saturday night, after our company left. I hope none of them catch it. So far it's hit AJ and MM full force. Baby E, DH and I are fighting it but haven't developed full-blown coughs at this point.
  
  Everybody's feeling tired and under the weather, though. Which is why this post is mostly sort of pointless.



• Baby E is sleeping much better. She is pretty much on a schedule now, napping around 10 and 2 and going to bed for the night around 9.
  
  Wow, it makes such a difference to have our evenings do to something other than engage in an hours-long sleep battle.
  
  We're getting a 4-5 hour stretch at the beginning of the night, and then she usually wakes up quite a few times after that until she's up for the day at 8 or 8:30. Last night, though, she only woke twice during the whole night.



• I still need to work on getting myself to bed before midnight. I'm trying to develop routines and a schedule so I'm not staying up late trying to do dishes, laundry, etc. after I should be in bed.



• The kids just went down for naps/quiet time, so I'm going to take a nap too. [Update: Of course, Baby E's ESP told her the moment Mommy fell asleep, and she woke immediately, after an unusually short nap. :) ]