Christmas Time!

Nadia is so interested in this snowman! I don't know if it's because he's her size or what exactly captivates her, but she has looked intently at him for hours today. She'll reach out and touch him and grab his nose or scarf. She'll pull him closer to her and then push him a little farther away. She has studied his every detail with great interest much to my approval since I have such a love for snowmen. She is equally intrigued with a similarly sized Santa from Gran's.

Last night Nadia went a six hour and then a five hour stretch between feedings! We're nearly "through the night" though I have to admit I'll really be sad when she is truly sleeping through the night. I enjoy our sweet time around 2:00 or 3:00 when it's quiet and dark and just us.

She is definitely studying on things longer and looking with more focus and examination of detail these days. She looked at every picture and lay still listening as I read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See" to her several times today. While I've been reading to her all along, she hasn't really paid attention to the pictures nearly as much as she did today.

She's trying, though without success yet, to find and put her paci back in her mouth. When we accomplish this one - it will revolutionize our days and nights as "paci re-putting" is quite a consuming part of our day. She's getting very close when it lands near her face! Keep trying Nadia!

We also have our nanny all worked out as of today. Sarah Beth is going to be with Nadia while I'm at work on Mondays at our house and then for a couple hours each afternoon Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday just down the hall from my office at church. Sarah Beth is wonderful and so loving and caring and will do a great job. She's great with her and will be very attentive and stiumlating and nurturing and energetic, etc - all the things we were looking for. It's still breaking my heart to think about going back to work, but knowing she's going to be with someone we feel great about is making it better.

We also had our diaper shower Wednesday night - Nadia received her first diapers in every size - 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s! We'll be storing some of those for quite a while, but it will be so nice to pull them out when she gets to each new size. All the Server Girls Leaders had brought all kinds of nice food and lots of diapers and wipes. It was a great time of informally hanging out and passing Nadia around.