Survived my first 10 hour Saturday back at work today. The day actually seemed to go fairly fast considering we weren’t all that busy. Tomorrow is just 8 hours at work, so that won’t be quite as painful. Jason and Anya got along wonderfully from what he told me. Hopefully if she could talk she would tell me the same thing I called to check in quite a few times and it always sounded like he had everything under control. He says she likes to watch football with him more than I do!!

All is going well here. Getting ready for her baptism next weekend. Sounds like we are going to have quite a crowd, so that should be fun. Looking forward to seeing everyone. Am hoping for nice weather so we can be outside alittle bit on Sunday.

I think we finally got Anya back on track with her sleeping. She had about a week where she slept terrible…she would wake up about every 30-45 minutes and cry, I would give her her pacifier, she would fall back asleep and then wake up again in about 30-45 minutes again..and this went on for the whole night. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what we had been doing differently as she had been sleeping so good up until this point and I finally figured it out….we had stopped swaddling her. So, finally we started swaddling her again and the very first night she only woke up once to eat….it was HEAVEN getting all that sleep!! I did alittle research on the internet about swaddling (I was concerned she would kick out of the swaddle with just a normal blanket) and I came across these special blankets called “swaddleme” so I bought one to try. They work wonderfully……take a look at the new pictures here and see a picture of Anya all cozy in her new “swaddleme” blanket. She loves it.

In other Anya news, she has started to giggle every now and then and it is hilarous to hear her laugh. She mostly laughs at her dad’s funky dance moves when he is happy with something the hawkeyes have done on the football field. She has also discovered her right hand which she now stares at for long periods of time. I keep trying to show her that she also has a left hand, but for right now she is pretty content just knowing she has a right hand. It is just amazing to watch her learn new things.

Well, guess that is all for now. Will write more later.