Good Days Lately

We have had a really good couple of days with Grace lately.  2.5 months is such a sweet age, and she grows so much each day.

On Saturday, Brian, Grace, and I went to our friends Stephanie and Ryan's house for dinner and stayed for about 4.5 hours.  Grace did a great job!  They have a dog, and she didn't seem scared of him at all.  She was held by everyone and didn't mind being passed around. She fussed towards the end of the evening, but it was understandable because we had been there for so long.

Sunday was Valentine's Day, and I can honestly say it was the happiest Valentine's Day of my life.  I truly feel that I have everything I could ever want in both Brian and Grace, and it is so cool to celebrate holidays with the two of them.

Sunday night, Grace slept for 6 hours straight!  (She did wake up around 2, but didn't cry, and went back to sleep, so I count that as sleeping).  It's amazing how much better I feel when I have had some good sleep.  (Can't believe I count 6 hours, broken up at 2 am, as good sleep).

Monday, I took Grace to our first restaurant, Tea Haus (similar to a coffee shop), downtown Ann Arbor.  She was such a good baby the whole time!  She barely fussed in her car seat.  She even fell asleep in my arms in the restaurant.  Wow, to think that I can take her out in public and not be worried, is a wonderful thing.  It also helps that Tea Haus is very "mother-baby friendly", and breastfeeding is encouraged there.

Our sleep schedule is still unpredictable to say the least.  I have a few routines I'm going by right now.  I've started a nighttime routine: bath, swaddle, breastfeed, bed.  The time varies, but I try to keep the routine consistent.  Also, when we're up for the day, I try put her down for a nap exactly 2 hours after she wakes up, every time.  Eventually, I want to move to the 2-3-4 schedule (first nap is 2 hours after waking, 2nd nap is 3 hours after waking from first nap, and bedtime is 4 hours after that), but she's still little, so right now it's a 2-2-2-2 schedule.

I fall more and more in love with this girl every single day.  I still can't believe she's ours.  I just live every day for her smiles and her cute sounds and her silly expressions. We are Grace's whole world, and we are going to do our very best to make her world as wonderful as she has made ours.