4/20/2011 134 Days Old

On the 134th day in the life of the most beautiful girl in the history of the world the morning began peacefully. Erin did not get much sleep last night, so I woke up to take car of Maya at about 5:00. I fed her a little early and she was able to get back to sleep before I had to get ready for work.

After I left Grandma Patti came by to take car of Maya while Erin worked from home. When I got home there were quite a few stories of the diapers that gave their lives to unsuccessfully  protect a onesie. Maya is on her fourth outfit of the day. Apparently one of her hit jobs was epic. Erin did not take any pictures. We have to take her word for it.

Maya has been awake most of the day. She would not let grandma put her down. When I got home grandma was holding up a book for Maya so that she can practice focusing her eyes. On days like these last few we really try to help her development as much as possible. She is so tired from her fight most of the time that she sleeps most of the day, so when we get a chance to stimulate her little brain we try not to miss it. She was doing an excellent job of focusing today. She would look right at the pictures in the book, and we could see the wheels in her head turning. Grandma made her a high contrast book a while back. She quilted and sowed together a few pages of white shapes with colored outlines on top of a black background. Grandma is trying to teach her shapes. I think from here we will move on to Dr. Seuss and then maybe War and Peace, Les Miserables.

This evening Grandam Kathy came by to see Maya. She got to help Erin give Maya a bath, and got to hold her for a while. Maya just now finally got to sleep. We are hoping that her day of diaper disasters, and awake time will lead to a sound sleep tonight. Logic would tell us that would be the case, but we all now know that Maya runs the show, so we will see what she thinks about it.

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