Home Sweet Home

Yay. We're home, and she's back to "normal" with her sleep. We got back late Monday night and she slept the whole car trip back. Monday night sleep was still a bit abnormal, but as of Tuesday night (last night), she slept a nice long 6-hour stretch. She fell asleep at 7:30 pm, fed again at 11:30 pm, but didn't wake up again until around 6:30 am to feed. And as of now (9:45am), she's still asleep. She still doesn't sleep 10-12 hour stretches normally. We've got friends whose babies are Hannah's age and they sleep 8-12 hours at night every night usually. Hannah does those once in a while.

So this weekend, I realized my post-pregnancy hair that was all falling out starting around 2-3 months (due to not falling out during pregnancy since the body is "holding on" to everything) is now growing back. I have all of these baby hairs all along my forehead hairline sticking up everywhere.

We had fun this weekend away from home visiting friends.
We got some items for Hannah at IKEA. I've always liked their children's section, but had no reason to buy the cute kiddy stuff. Now I do! I've been mulling for awhile how I should decorate her room and how to pull all the different random elements & furniture pieces together. Finally I've decided to decorate her room in a coral reef & rainforest theme with all sorts of colors. Bright greens, turquoise, blues, reds, salmon/pinks, oranges, yellows. It matches her jumperoo, the new purchases, and hopefully will pull the pre-existing elements, toys, and colors together.

She's now progressed yet another week with crawling. She will actually be on all fours off of the ground starting out, and then go back to the half dragging herself across the floor. She's still not completely coordinated to be off of the floor only supported by her hands and knees yet, but it'll get there.

Her facial expressions have also changed. She scrunches her face up to smile. Her eyes get all squinty, her nose all crunched up and her mouth is all big. It sort of looks like an anime expression. She'll do it when she's smiling or happy, and the expression sometimes comes up when she's vocalizing or half crying. So it's hard to tell if she's smiling or upset. Either way, if we smile at her and laugh, then it becomes a laugh back at us.

I'll add photos to the post when I get the camera battery recharged and the photos downloaded.