April 4, 2006

Today Avery woke me up at 4:30. So early! What happened to sleeping til 6:30 I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the time change that happened Sunday. I fed her, and afterwards she was really sleepy. I was going to change her, but didn't want her to wake up fully so put her in the bed next to me and tried to fall asleep. She fell asleep, I didn't. At one point I had my back facing her and I felt her little hand on it stroking me. I know she didn't know what she was doing, but I pretended. We got up at 7 and I gave her a bath. Of course we had to sing our song 'boogers in the bathtub' as I was telling her about how clean all of her various parts were becoming. She kicked in the water so hard that my back got wet. I'm not sure if she loves baths, but she certainly doesn't hate them like her cousin Anna did. 

Avery is really finding her hands. She can watch something and reach for it now, which is really exciting. It's amazing to see her growing and developing more each day. There are days that she'll do something new out of the blue. Two weeks ago she found her tongue, and was sticking it out at us every chance she got. I have been waiting for her to have the ability to reach out and grab something. For weeks I've been dangling the little plastic fishes that are on her swing in front of her. She would watch them, but not reach for them. This weekend, I put her in her swing, and when I looked over she had one fish in each hand and her arms were extended and was swinging to beat the blazes. Hysterical!

Papi took her to daycare today. Of course they napped first. He's really going to teach her to be a lady of leisure, I tell you! I'm sure the daycare people think we're on drugs or something. I don't think we've brought her in at the same time two days in a row. It's hard though when Jamie doesn't have a schedule and I do. It'd be easier for me to just drop her off and Jamie's because it's closer to me then have her take him, but he's not always up and awake. Or he has a job. It's just nuts. I think it will be better when we're living together. Soon!