New Developments

I have some posts in the works, but I haven't had a chance lately to work on them.  On the positive side, our little lady is spending more and more time awake and alert each day.  We are getting a lot more smiles out of her even if she still doesn't really know she's smiling.  Just yesterday Billy was walking from side to side in front of her, and Nora was tracking him inquisitively with her eyes.  She holds her head up better than ever, and when I walk around with her head out of her carrier she trades off between staring right at me and looking around behind me.  This means that when Nora's awake, we want to spend every minute watching her take in the world with her eyes wide open.

On the less positive side, we're not sure what happened to our great little nighttime sleeper.  She used to sleep from about 10 or 11pm until 7am, though she woke up every couple of hours to nurse.  Now we are having trouble getting her to down to bed and she hasn't been dozing off on her own after nursing anymore.  This is taking a toll on her mama, but I figure that like everything else, this phase will shift into a new one soon enough.  (Hopefully before her dad returns to work in two weeks.)

Until I get a chance to write those other posts, here's a picture of her drying off after her bath the other day.  At least she does a good job of reminding us how adorable she is, which tides us over in the more difficult stretches.