4 weeks

What a difference a week makes! This week was so much better than last. Ella seems to be doing a lot better about sleeping at night. She gave me a little trouble Monday morning, didn't want to sleep from about 5am to 10am. Fortunately we didn't have any where to be so we just stayed in bed until early afternoon once she finally went to sleep. Otherwise she's been sleeping longer stretches and going back to sleep easier after she eats.

Danny and Jenn let us borrow their bouncy seat thing which has been helpful. Ella let me work out three days this week and take a shower everyday. She has about a 30 minute limit of being in the seat, so I do everything in short segments. But at least I'm able to get some things done.

Thursday we ran errands all day. GrandMo came with us for most of the day, which was very helpful. Ella did really well. By the end she was pretty worn out though. I felt bad for her by the time we got home, she seemed completely over stimulated. I nursed her for a long time and we both crashed for about three hours.

This morning while she was nursing, we were switching from one side to the other and she was giving me some fierce eye contact. So I stopped for a minute and was singing to her and returning the eye contact when she gave me a huge, open mouth, gummy grin! It was so cute. And she did three or four times. It made my day. She did it again for me later on and Jeff said she smiled at him when we got home. I hope she keeps it up. It's awesome.