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Archive for July 27th, 2007

8 Weeks

Our little girl is getting bigger now.  Yesterday, she showed us how much she’s growing with 2 surprises.  (We’ll add the videos I mention in this post to the movie gallery when Paul gets some spare time.) 

First, she figured out how to push one of the arms on her play gym in order to make the dangling animals wiggle.  She did that for a long time and fortunately I caught it on video so Paul could share in the moment too.  What a genius she is!  Secondly, and most importantly, she slept over 6 hours straight last night.  I woke up right at 6 hours and ran over to the bassinet to make sure she was still breathing once I realized what time it was.  I was so shocked, I just kept watching her waiting for her to wake up.  She did a few minutes later so I could feed her and then she went right back to sleep but I was too excited to sleep (which is probably why I need a nap right now and it’s only 10:30AM). 

Paul’s been working on Bella’s swimming this week-letting her float on her back and getting her used to being in the water during her bathtime each evening.  We’re using our big bathtub in the masterbath for this so it’s easy to let her float from one end to the other and really get her legs stretched out.  She took to it like a frog-she’s so cute when her little legs start kicking.  She laughed and laughed once she realized that floating wasn’t so weird after all.  Now she loves it.  In honor of her swim coach, I’m taking her to get her picture taken today at her new daycare (she doesn’t start til next week but they said she could participate anyway).  They have a photographer in this week working on a beach theme so Bella will be in a pretty pink sundress and will smile really big for Daddy so we can give these to him for his birthday tomorrow.  He’ll be 35 and she’s 8 weeks already.  Boy, how time flies when you’re as happy and blessed as we are!!