3 am shenanigans

Ellie is sleeping through the night (hallelujah!), but sometimes still wakes up fussing once or twice, which just requires someone to go in a do a little back rub and paci insertion to get her back to sleep. The other night, I heard noises on the monitor, looked at my phone and saw that it was around 3 am, the normal waking time should waking occur. I quickly realized, though, that she was not fussing, but rather "singing" and babbling to herself quite contentedly. I was immediately wide awake and cracking up. Brad rolled over, heard the noises and started laughing, too. So here we are, at 3 am when we'd normally be less than happy to be awake, laughing in bed at this little girl who decided it was a great time to be awake and happy. She jabbered on for about 7 minutes and then promptly fell back asleep, no fussing, no grumps, just stopped making noise and was immediately in dreamland. Man, I love this girl.