Home...

I'm glad to be home.  We had a long day still but that's ok, it was our house. She slept a lot better than we thought that she was going to last night.  She slept from 10 until 6.  I think that we had every toy that Emilee owns out in the floor trying to keep her happy.  She still isn't herself yet, but we are working on it. She's drinking, but not as well as we would like... so about noon we decided to do what we weren't suppose to do and spoon feed her...  she got some ice cream and loved it.  So she would eat about two ounces of pedialyte and then have a small bowl of ice cream. We aren't suppose to spoon feed her to keep the spoon from hitting the repair, but since she didn't really have a typical cleft palate and her's was so far back into her mouth that we just decided that it would be ok and we would still be careful. She did just fine.  We made sure to only use about half of the spoon just to be extra safe. She's wanting to eat and it breaks my heart to not let her. She still slept a lot, but did take her afternoon nap in her crib and slept for two hours.  

Uncle Josh, Aunt Ashley, Sam and Freckles came to visit today.  Sam and Emilee played and helped keep her awake until her nap time.  

She played with her "Emilee Can Do" mat that Aunt Barbara made

We read some books

We rocked. She hands us the blanket and then just lays her head down.  Sometimes she falls asleep or pretends to and other times she just lets us rock her for a little while and then pops her head up and plays for a little while. I hate that she feels like she does, but I sure am enjoying the rocking. =)

The Box is back.  She played with this box the entire week that we were camping.  We put the play table back in the box to bring it home, so when we got the table out again...  she played with the box.. again.

ICE CREAM!  YAY!  She really likes ice cream...  Vanilla, Chocolate or Strawberry, she didn't care what flavor as long as she was getting to "eat"

All in all we had a good day!  At about 5:30 this evening she decided to crawl fast while we chase her and she saw the open baby gate in the hallway, so I let her go up the stairs.  When she got to the top she made a right turn and headed straight for the bathroom, went to the bath tub and stood up pointing at her toys in it, so we let her have a bath.  I took an alcohol wipe and tried to get all the sticky stuff off of her and then we let her play in the water.  I'm sure that it felt good to be clean. After that she played and then drank a little and Granny rocked her to sleep while we snuck to her house to eat.  (We haven't been eating in front of her because that's just mean).