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Today I am thankful for the moments when I am rocking Annie (or Lucy when she used to let me rock her) and she is just about to go to sleep. I always have to watch them when they don't realize that I am watching them because I DO NOT want the dreaded eye contact right before drifting off to sleep because you know she is wide awake again if she catches my eye. Anyway, when she is moments away from falling asleep and her eyes are blinking so slowly I love to watch her do everything she can to try and keep her eyes open - look up, look sideways, look at me, etc. She will move her eyes upward and then they blink so slowly. Then she will move them on me because she is too tired to look up at the ceiling anymore. And then she finally caves and just lets them close. I can feel every muscle in her body relax and then I know she is done. I love to rock my babies way past when they are asleep because the moment is just so sweet and in the blink of an eye, Annie is going to be Lucy's size and not have time for rocking anymore. I actually do not normally see Annie go to sleep. She is so wiggly that she prefers to get her bottle, rock for a few minutes, and then be laid down. She normally puts herself to sleep. But today for nap she was not trying to wiggle away when I was rocking her so I just rocked away and got to have one of my favorite moments. Sweet baby.

Justin is still really sick. He almost fainted today when he came down for lunch. He was fine, but got really light headed and dizzy for a bit. The fever is a little more under control today. I am still holding out on not getting sick like him. My throat is really sore and my head is congested. I am really tired but fine. Please let me stay this way!

The weather is supposed to be really nice the next few days so I am going to open up our house and let the germs fly away!! This place needs disinfecting. Hopefully I can get some of that done while Lucy is at school tomorrow.

Here is some therapy stuff we are working on. Here is how Annie normally sits. It is obviously hard to tell with these wide pants on, but her legs are stiff as a board under there.


Here is what we are working on. You have no idea how hard it is to catch this in a photo because she straightens that leg out so fast. I have to bend it in this position and as long as I am sitting on the floor close by her, she will keep it there for a short while. But if I step away, it locks out almost immediately. I would have NEVER even given a second thought to sitting with a leg bent until now. It is so natural to most people and babies. But not my girl. This is so far from normal for her. She is improving though!! We did a lot of good work today.


This is a good shot of how stiff her legs are. One leg is normally lifted off of the ground. (notice the toes pointing straight up - LOVE IT!)






And here are some sneak peeks from my newborn session yesterday. Kylie, I am working on getting them all loaded for you to see. Such a cutie!!