4/3/11 – Just Another Boring Sunday!

Today was a very boring, low-key, family day around the house. Amelia did really well again last night in the crib, just up once. I’m hoping we’ve finally turned a corner on her sleeping. My main hunch has always been that she could just sense me in the room, especially when she was in bed with me, and it would make her want to be close to me, or nurse, even if she wasn’t hungry. I mean, other things have run through my mine…her reflux acting up again; her teeth bothering her; reactions to food, or my milk; etc. But, I truly thing her attachment to me was really the issue. Now that we’re in separate rooms, and she can’t sense or smell me, she’s able to disconnect a little bit. As much as I love the sleep and the space, and having our room back, it’s still really hard. It’s funny, for so long I’ve wanted this, but now that I have it, I miss her so much, and miss all of our extra cuddles.

Once the girls were up, we really just hung out around the house all day. It was a little cooler, cloudy and rainy today, so we didn’t get a chance to go on a walk or anything. The Easter Bunny arrived at the Mall of America yesterday, so we thought maybe if we could get the girls to take a nap, we could head over and get that out of the way. Well, they were not having any part of that. It took forever to get both of them down, so, that will have to wait for another weekend.

So, we really just sat around, played, tried to protect Amelia from Olivia all day…you know, the usual. I managed to get a few loads of laundry done and put away throughout the day, but that’s really the only productive thing either of us did.

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Here are some pictures from today. The girls played with each other for a while (until Olivia decided she’d had enough of sharing with Amelia), Amelia has been passing out lots of slobbery kisses lately, and she got Olivia good today, and I included a picture of Amelia standing up today. You seriously cannot keep her down anymore, she LOVES to be up..the worst is IN the bathtub, that’s scary. She is definitely ready to go!