Sleep, Shots and Smiles

Our Emily (who turns 10 weeks old tomorrow) has started sleeping through the night... sort of! She has slept from about 9pm until around 4 or 5 am about 4 or 5 times in the last 8 days. So she can do it, just not consistently yet. And of course everyone's reaction to telling them that she did this is, "oh, you must feel great after getting that much sleep!" Um... NO, unfortunately Mom and Dad continued to wake up several times during the night, especially Mom, whose body is taking a long time adjusting to not nursing in the middle of the night (ouch!).

Over the last couple nights Emily's sleep pattern is most likely thrown off because she went to the doctor on Friday for her well-baby check-up and got 3 shots! She screamed immediately and started turning purple because she was screaming too hard to take a breath, but that only lasted a few seconds before returning to normal crying. So far no other adverse reactions besides maybe messing with her sleep patterns. She has grown to almost twice the size she was when we brought her home from the hospital (that was 6lbs 4 oz). Now she is 11 lbs and 15 oz. and 22.5 inches long (from 19 inches at birth).

Emily also has picked up on the best times to smile at us and melt our hearts. She most frequently gives us big smiles and coos when we are changing a big dirty diaper or when we are trying to put her to sleep for the night. She's also very good at smiling a lot for us and being super cute and then stopping as soon as we get the camera out! She especially likes playing on her play mat and reading books.
Funny story from yesterday. It stormed all morning but cleared up in the afternoon so we decided to get outside for a bit. Mom put Emily in the Moby wrap and we went out to watch Tom do some yard work. Then we decided to take a walk. Tom went inside to change his shoes and came out the garage, closing the garage door behind him (without the opener). This is right when Megan came around the corner to tell him that she couldn't pull the front door closed because she couldn't get into the porch because the porch door was locked! So we were locked out! After trying to pop the lock with a wire hanger through the mail slot, Tom called Coe Security and they came with some tools which allowed him to pick the lock and let us in before Megan started to panic too much!