Ella has discovered her ears this week, first her left then her right. Now that she's found them, she can't leave them alone. Even when she's drifting off to sleep, I'll see her reach up and start playing with her ear. Sometimes she misses her ears and lands on the back of her head, which is apparently equally entertaining and she likes to feel her hair there. Her ability to grasp and hold things has gotten so much better. It's funny though, I think she has a harder time doing it when she looks at the object rather than just going by feel. I guess her hand-eye coordination isn't that great yet.
She's been rolling over after pretty much every nap and sometimes in the middle of them. We call it the game-over move because we pretty much have to go get her. She won't go back to sleep once she's flipped to her back. Sometimes we can rock her for a few minutes and put her back down to sleep, but most of the time she'll have no part of that. Every time I go in to get her now, she's so happy to see me. She gives me the biggest gummy grins and starts waving her arms and kicking her legs and squealing. It makes my day.
When she wakes up in the morning (which has been getting earlier and earlier...), she doesn't cry or fuss any more, she just squirms and tries real hard to catch my eye. When I do look at her, she gives me her huge, happy smiles like she just can't wait to start the day. I loosen her swaddle and she starts stretching and cooing and looking all around for a good 20 or 30 minutes. Every few minutes she'll roll on her side and look at me and smile and squeal, like she forgot I was there and is so happy to see me again. She's so cute I almost forget that the sun is just barely starting to come up...
A few days ago I was changing her clothes and for the life of me, I could not get the snaps done on the new outfit. I was getting so frustrated. I started giving the PJs a piece of my mind, but in a sing-song voice so Ella wouldn't think I was mad at her. Well, she thought that was the funniest thing she had ever heard. The extent of her laughing so far is just the squeals she lets out with her smiles, but this exchange got some real giggles from her. I hadn't even realized that I hadn't heard her really, truly laugh before until I heard that laugh. She sounded like such a big girl. She hasn't done it again since then, I guess nothing has struck her as funny as Mommy cussing her pajamas.
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