17 Weeks

Aunt Carrie got this exersaucer for Ella for Christmas. We put it together for her last Friday. It's taking her a while to get the hang of it, but I think she likes it. Today she figured out how to spin herself around in it. She gets so serious when we put her in there, like it's all business. There's just so much to see and do, I think it'll take her a while to figure it all out.

This has been another rough week, since Tuesday anyway. I took Ella back to the park on Monday and Tuesday since she had such a good time on Sunday. Monday went fine as well, and Tuesday she was fine at the park, but lost her mind when we got home. I think I made her stay up too long (only about 2 hours) and she was just completely overtired. She cried so hard and for so long that I was in tears too and was seriously contemplating taking her to the ER. Nothing I tried would calm her down. As far as I could tell, nothing else was wrong. She finally just stopped and fell asleep. Wednesday started off fine, but by evening she was a mess again. Every time I tried to lay her down she would scream. Thursday night was pretty much the same. I don't know what's going on with her, but it is no fun. I hate it so much when she cries like that and it is extremely frustrating not being able to get her to go to sleep when I know that's what's wrong. She's fine with napping in the mornings and afternoons, but now starts crying before we even make it in the room to lay her down at night. I seriously think it took about twenty attempts over three hours to get her to bed last night.

I was also sick on Thursday. Jeff had to stay home from work to take care of Ella. I had already agreed to keep Maggie for a little while that day as well, so he had his hands full for a couple of hours. I gave him a brief run down of Ella's morning routine and went off to sleep in the guest bedroom. I woke up when I heard Ella wake up figuring she was probably hungry. When I came out, they were playing on the floor. Jeff had changed her clothes and I commented on it being a cute outfit. He said he liked it because it was one piece, but that it fit her funny in the legs. A while later I picked her up to feed her and realized her Daddy had put her outfit on backwards. I just had to laugh. Turns out it fit just fine if you put it on the right way... :-)