Avery is now regularly sleeping through the night. One of our tomes of baby info says that child psychologists and doctors qualify 'through the night' as midnight to 5am. If that's the case, Avery's an overachiever. Starting about two weeks ago, she began sleeping most nights for 6-9 hours. Whoo ha! For example, last night she went to bed around 10 and is still asleep now (5.31am).

Because of this shift, I've begun getting up early to work in the mornings again. Here are some of the albums that I've loaded into iTunes as part of my get-up-and-go routine:

• They Might Be Giants, Apollo 18, Factory Showroom, Severe Tire Damage, and miscellaneous singles
• Weezer, Maladroit and Green Album
• Five for Fighting, The Battle for Everything
• Faith No More, The Real Thing and Angel Dust
• David Grey, White Ladder
• Great Big Sea, Road Rage
• IMPACT, songs from Cryptic Caustic and Catchy
• Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls, Hubba Hubba
• Hootie and the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View
• Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
• The Juliana Hatfield Three, Become What You Are
• Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant

I hope you appreciate my honesty, dear reader. By including Hootie in the list, I'm opening myself up to plenty of ridicule. I can only hope that the They Might Be Giants, Faith No More, Juliana Hatfield, and Arlo Guthrie show my eclecticism enough to forgive sugary pop rock.