There are still a few of you who like to check this site so I thought I'd give another caveat of a glimpse into Grace's life. She has now been home for 4 months and is loving her new life with all of us. She is giving us wet and wonderful kisses (see pic of Ryan below), standing with ease, taking first steps, crawling quickly, signing all sorts of words to communicate (like eat, done, please, sleep, more, and milk), and spends her days basically tethered to her mommy but loves having her brothers and Daddy hold her and play with her. She has games she plays like the sideways game where she'll cock her head to the side whenever anyone does this to her and she'll smile one of those winning smiles. She still, however, doesn't sleep perfectly through the night. We've resorted to having me sleep with her every night - side by side on two mattresses. She wakens every few hours and searches for me in the dark (albeit with a nightlight on). She is getting less frantic about it and the past few nights she's begun to more quickly soothe herself to sleep. So I'm hopeful that we are on our way to the next stage which would be putting her into her crib at night and have me sleep next to her on the floor. Then the final stage would be that Grace is perfectly content in her crib and I am perfectly snuggled back in my own bed next to my sweet husband.
