Sleep little one

I need to keep reminding myself that Max is still very young and this first year is just a very short period of our lives. It has been very difficult the past month or so. About once a week we will get lucky and Max will only wake up once during the night. The rest of the week we live in reality, getting up 2 or 3 times per night. The other night, for example, she needed checked on at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 3:00 and 4:00. I guess the positive is that she did not wake up at 2:00 also. Most of the time we can get away with a quick check and she will be back to sleep in 5 minutes. Unfortunately it still requires us to get out of bed (...and climb the stairs, deal with the cats, get a drink of water, go to the bathroom...only to come back to a bed that has mysteriously shrunk because the other person has taken over the middle of it...) I know these days will soon pass and before we know it we will be waking up at 11:00, 12:00 and 1:00 to check to see if she made it home safely. I just hope there are a few good years of sleep between now and then.