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She lifted herself up from being on her stomach to look at me! Not with her arms, she's still not getting that yet, but she lifted her head AND chest as far up as they will go without arm support. That's a first! And I coaxed her to it! It took since she's arrived, but she did it. I'll settle for that instead of pushing up on her arms.

She's almost to sitting without support. That's another thing we've been working on, but I can't take much credit because she came to me working on that. So cute to watch her wobble around and then slowly collapse.

The glamour is wearing off. I still enjoy playing with her, and her babbling with me is precious (I WISH I had a video camera or digital camera with movie capabilities). But having to deal with work and the baby at the same time is driving me crazy. Plus, I am starting to miss finishing out some dreams. And not getting to have as much time to play with her as I want because of work, and yet when I'm with her- I'm just a bag of mixed feelings.

Yeah, it'll be good she's going home tomorrow. Though Saturday I think I'd have liked better.

Went into the office today. My Aunt Cindy babysat, at my house so that the baby would be in familiar surroundings and hopefully that would help with he clinginess issue. Apparently the baby slept a 2.5 hour nap, and then another nap while I was gone! Yeah, she gets to sleep after a hard night (she woke up more than her supposed normal two times), but I don't. I totaled up only about 5.5 hours for myself. Ugh.

At work Amy asked about thinking you hear the baby at night, starting to fuss or babble or whatnot, but actually no sound was made. I definitely have experienced that, the more tired I get but can't fall asleep the more I think I hear the baby.

While in the office I caught myself cooing. Geez, these habits you pick up and do even when the baby's not around!

Forgot to mention that when I had taken her to the Step family on Wednesday for baby sitting I begged my Step-Mom to bathe the baby. She's only had my failed attempt so far this week for a bath. Though her Mom said she is only bathed twice a week for exema reasons, so if she got a bath on Wednesday and then goes home Friday that would be alright. My Step-Mom obliged, much to my thanks!

Also forgot to mention that while with the Step family they fed her baby pears (pear sauce, like applesauce, but pears), and they say she loved it!

I tried feeding her some pear sauce before bed, and while she made grimaces at the taste she kept eating more (so funny). She'd look at the jar intently and wait for me to get another spoonful from it for her. But she doesn't know how to eat solids yet, and so kept trying to eat as if there was a bottle in her mouth, which ended up with half of the spoonful being pushed back out of her mouth. That's okay, just meant it took longer to get as much food in her tummy, it still happened.

I watched her learn! We were sitting on the floor, facing her mat with toys hanging from bars above it. She noticed her foot came in contact with a noisy toy. She paused a moment, then carefully moved her foot to the toy, and watched it move with her foot. She did this slow deliberate movement a couple more times, then she lifted her other foot and tested if the same was true with that foot. Soon she was using both feet to kick at the toy. She learned, and this time she did it all by herself! It was so cool.