On the mend...

Ella is on the mend...she's still quite stuffy but definitely feeling a little better. I brought her to the sitters yesterday and told her that Ella was just on the tail-end of a cold...and she said it's that time of year...2 other kids came down with a cold on Saturday (which is when Ella's started.) So obviously they were sharing the love at day-care!

On Monday, Josh was off...so it was another day of Daddy Daycare! I asked him how it went...he hesitated and then said, "it was ok." The main thing is they both survived! At least he gets a taste of what it is like to be home with her all day by himself...it's good for him :) We shared a car on Monday as we had to bring his in for an oil change...and then it needed a new Water-Pump as well...it's never-ending!

Ella is really beginning to become "miss independent," she likes to try to do things by herself. She really wants to hold her own bottle...she does well until it's time to tip it up...we haven't mastered that yet! She also has been making little faces...her personality is coming through! When I dropped her off at the sitters yesterday morning...she had fallen asleep in the car on the way there and when I got there I had to take her out so it made her stir and her eyes flew open. Beth looked at her and laughed and said she looks so angry! Her little eyebrows were furrowed, her cheeks were pooched out, and her lips were pursed...I wish I had a picture of it...but she didn't look happy that she had been woken up! Her other new face is "fish lips."

When we were at the Doctor's the other day...he looked at her gums and showed us that her teeth are right there...so very soon they should start peeking through...so we bought some more teething rings. She was going at it this morning:

She's still been sleeping in her swing due to her stuffiness...probably a few more days of that and then she will go back to her crib. We did set up the humidifier for her at night and that seems to help.

Another milestone that she hit was sleeping through the night...12 hours! She has done it for a little over a week now. Last night was the exception...and I actually expected it. She wasn't really taking her bottle last night...so I had a feeling that she would be getting up in the night...and sure enough...4:00am she was hungry! She ate and back to sleep she went.

Today it's just Ella and I. I was going to run a few errands but the forecast is, "heavy rain." So I am rethinking those errands! Instead we'll have an inside day and do some cleaning and picking up!