Progress, Possibly?

Elliott slept for 4 and 1/2 hours last night in a row!  Trivial you might say but not for a sleep-deprived mom who has been banking on this transition!  I wasn't expecting a longer stint like this for another couple weeks but it was GLORIOUS to wake up and discover this sleep time.  Of course after I put her back down she only slept for another hour and 45 minutes but hey, that 4 and 1/2 hours was magnificent.  It may not happen again tonight but I am certainly marking it on the calendar that it happened at almost 5 weeks!  

I swear that she smiled at me this morning.  I swear it!  She was bright-eyed and alert staring at me and this huge grin erupted on her face.  Twice!  I screamed for Spencer who was downstairs feeding the dogs to come up and see it.  Of course but that time she had stopped her beaming but I know it happened!  My heart started pounding and I fell in love with my daughter all over again. I keep trying to get her to do it again today to no avail but I'll keep trying.

We've been having a lot more alert time.  I have this beautiful quilt that one of my technicians made for me that I spread out on the floor and we have play time and tummy time for a short while.  She gets over stimulated sometimes and we have to stop but our times on the quilt are getting longer and longer!  I can't wait to put her in the play mat with all the fun toys that dangle down.  

She still looks like her daddy too.  She has his eyes, his nose and his smile lines.  But my lips!  Her dark brown hair seems to be growing in more as well.  Oops, I swear she knows when I'm on the computer but she wakes up every time I try to blog.  And I hear her stirring......