Is this what being rested feels like?

I really can't remember. I've been compensated for the year of hell Courtney put me through because now she is just an angel of a sleeper. I know I'm probably jinxing myself by writing this, but I really feel the need to celebrate! She sleeps from 8PM to 7AM every morning and takes one nap a day for 2-3 hours! She's a much happier child because of it, and we are much happier parents. It makes the time I spend with her more enjoyable because we're both not so cranky from being overly tired.

The bottle weaning, on the other hand, is not going so well. Still 2 a day. I've decided to not obsess....yeah like that's going to happen!

Her speech is continuing to improve. She repeats the last word of every sentence I say. So, the other day when I told her that I was changing her shirt because it was too tight and it made her look like a hoochie, she proceede to say "hoochie" for the next hour as we're shopping in Target. Nice! And last week, when I changed the ring on my cell phone to the Gwen Stefani song "Hollaback Girl", she asked that we play it "Again! Again! Again!" Then busted out in the chorus..."hollaback geerlll!" It was a very proud moment. She has a very bad lisp because she's tongue-tied, meaning the flap of skin connecting her tongue to her mouth is too close to the tip of her tongue. We'd been warned when she was born it could affect her speech, but we opted not to get the skin cut, in hopes the tongue would grow and the problem would improve. Well, it hasn't much, so I hope she doesn't have to go to speech therapy or anything. I'm having flashbacks to the Brady Bunch episode where Cindy Brady gets teased for her lisp "baby talk, baby talk, it's a wonder you can walk!" I guess there are worse things.

Well, that's it for now. I was going to post a photo taken last Wednesday at the portrait studio, but when I inserted the CD with the proofs on it, I was suddenly looking at this tiny, hispanic baby that was definitely not mine! I'm hoping they didn't give ours to someone else. The idea of someone else looking at photos of my little girl on their computer is creeping my husband out!