magic number

i know parents get in the habit of asking their kids "what's the magic word?", and "what do we say?" to go some way to teaching them polite conversation and manners.
i have a variation on the 'magic' word- it's the magic number.

the number is 8.

"percy slept 8 hours, percy slept 8 hours, percy slept 8 hours!!" straight!

actually she slept 8 and half hours straight but the gloating chant doesn't sound the same.
this was last thursday nite. she woke and had a bottle of milk at 10:30pm and didn't waken until 7am!!

sorry about all the exclamation marks but this is quite an exclaimy development. i felt almost cheerful on friday. on friday nite she took only one feed too. saturday nite i honestly don't remember. cripes that's slack, it's only two nites ago and i don't remember how many times i got up.
possibly due to a silly thing i did at work on friday. explanation- i work in one of those hugely lovely, old sandstone buildings in sydney cbd. it's over one hundred years old and just amazing to look at and walk around inside. the walls are massive, the balustrades highly polished wood, the floors black and white marble in checker board pattern, all very impressive. there are also marble fireplaces in many rooms. (just as an aside- it sounds great but it doesn't actually lend itself to modern office useage very well. still, i like it a lot.) anyways, i sat down abruptly on a chair in front of one the marble fireplaces and cracked the back of my head on the bloody mantle shelf piece of marble so hard i could almost see the tweety birds singing around my head. this cracking resulted in a lump that is too painful to lie on, hence i can't sleep on my back. my snotty cold makes sleeping on either side a misery of snot, snoring and waking with a dry mouth, and i've never been a tummy sleeper. with the sum result being even tho percy is sleeping longer periods i'm not!! dammit! when are we going to line this up with the whole family having satisfactory sleep?

percy took only one feed last nite. my cold is improving and my lump is less painful... maybe tonite we'll snooze happily.