3 Brief Comments...

3 noteworthy updates about Ellie in the last week or so...

1. Her sleeping habits have become really goofed! She'll be dead tired and start falling asleep in your arms or while eating, but as soon as you put her in her bed, she jerks awake and seems quite alert (sometimes happy, sometimes not). She can lie there for hours--cooing, baby talking, laughing, crying, screaming--NOT sleeping. If you leave her alone, she gets more tired working herself into a lather. If you pick her up and try to rock her to sleep or out her pacifier back in her mouth, she might start to fall asleep but as soon as you put her in bed (even after she falls into a deep snoring sleep) she wakes up. This is all daytime sleeping.

Nights are varied. Some are good and some are not.

2. The other day while we were playing/exercising with Ellie on the floor, our dog Popcorn came over and laid beside her (as she frequently does); but for the first time ever, Ellie reached her arm out to the dog and began moving her hand back and forth over Popcorn's body!

3. While in the supermarket this week, we put her in the little "seat" of the shopping cart. Previously, she would never sit still enough or balanced enough to keep her in there more than a few seconds. This time we put her little hands on the things in front of her, held them down with our hands over hers, and she stayed seated and balanced the WHOLE TIME! This may seem a small thing to some, but it really is an encouraging sign of progress!