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I've started lying on our day care check-in sheets. Not big lies, just little fibs to make our routine look more like the other babies' routines.

Those other babies sleep 12 hours at a time at night. 12! They don't wake up at 5:30. They don't appear to wake up before dawn, period. I don't know what the other mommies and daddies know that I don't, but it's clearly something.

My attempts at altering our schedule have come to naught, BB has her own ideas about sleep. So I've started bumping her bedtime back 15 minutes and bumping her wake time up-- but only on the day care check-in sheet. So now BB looks like she sleeps a half hour plus more than she actually does every day. I don't think of this as fabrication, I think of it as wishful thinking. Super!

Progresso Souper You

The Rules: In 200 characters or less, submit a short essay and photo of yourself telling us why you love Progresso Soup and why you deserve a fashion makeover.

Judging Criteria: Creativity, Incorporation of Progresso Soup brand (in essay or picture), Humor, Inspiration

The Prize: Trip for two to NYC.

The Entry: It involves my crappy clothes and my last 5 pounds of won't-die baby weight.