Kulia has turned into the most perfect baby. I know I shouldn’t say this for fear of jinxing myself but dang, this kid rocks!

First off, she is a great night sleeper. She is consistantly sleeping from 8pm until 4am and she is only 10 weeks old!!! I can’t believe my luck. It is heavenly.

Second, she has found her thumb. Instead of crying herself to sleep for naps, she just pops in her little thumb and sucks away until she drifts off to dreamland. No crying. Just violent thumb sucking. It’s awesome.

Finally, she has figured out how to take a bottle. My mom has been working with her for the last two weeks. Her first attempt involved lots of gagging and crying but she persisted. Today, we had success and baby sister sucked down two ounces without much of a fuss. I’m overjoyed. I can see a little bit of freedom for me peeking around the corner now. My mom is only here one more day so I’m going to have her do as many bottles as possible with Kulia in the hopes that she’ll learn and remeber how they work.

I bought a ton of baby books when Leina was a wee mcnugget. Most of them had chapters devoted to different baby personalities. There was the touchy baby, the spirited, baby, and the grumpy baby. However, the first section was usually devoted to the easy, textbook, or angel baby. Since this was clearly not Leina, I skipped these chapters and secretly wondered if said “easy” baby even existed. Well, she does and her name is Kulia. Baby sister is all quick smiles, soft coos, and mild manners. It’s so easy to read her signals for hunger, boredom, or tiredness. I suppose I’m much wiser having survived Leina but I also believe that alot of the ease arises from Kulia’s sweet temperment. I couldn’t ask for a better second child.

I’m sure after I post this, Kulia will turn into some sort of cranky colic baby but I’m going to risk it. No recycle bins for this kid. She’s sweeter than apple pie and oh so kissable. I’m one lucky mommy.