4 am

I have been pretty lucky lately, sleeping through the night. I usually get up once around 3 and fall back asleep pretty easily. But tonight, I'm up. This time I'm hungry and thirsty and my head is full of thoughts. Mostly good thoughts - baby, Christmas, the whole giving birth thing. I woke up around 3:30 and tossed and turned until 4:30, when my growling stomach finally got me out of bed. A little toast and tea should help and then I will listen to a hypnobirthing CD to float off into space or wander through the forest or go somewhere equally mind numbing and soporific.

Little cub seems to be awake, too. He's stretching around and kicking for over an hour, in what must be very tight quarters.

Oh and to add to the cat behavior documentation, he now sleeps with me every night, curled up next to my belly. He used to do that occasionally, maybe a few times a month, but it's become a nightly habit. And since I am up now, he is wandering around meowing like crazy and looking at me as if to say, "Why are you not holding me or in a position where I can be sleeping on you?" And then he runs REALLY fast to another area of the house, his claws scraping and sliding on the hardwood floors. The dog is still quite happily curled up on his bed in our bedroom. Good dog.