Adjustments

Everyday is different right now, some days Emma seems to be adjusting well, others she seems to go backwards.  She slept 10 hours last night for the first time at home...8 hours straight through, a 2 hour break from sleep, then another 2 hours from 5:30ish-7:45am.  Today was the first time she woke up happy, but she is really nervous acting and clingy today despite the smiles; she keeps clawing/scratching the back of her neck, head, legs and hits herself in the head.  I do the same scratching thing to my neck when I'm nervous and most times I don't even realize I am doing this, so I totally get what this is about and it is all normal considering the circumstances.   

We are trying to establish a routine on food, naps and bedtime to help her feel secure here.  The food is the easy part and so is getting her to sleep...getting her to stay asleep is the hard part.  She takes a mid-morning nap during a stroller ride and mid-afternoon nap on her own, but the time in the afternoon varies and rages from 45 mins of sleep to 2 hours.  Around 6:30pm she gets really sleepy, but we are trying to establish a bedtime between 7:30pm-8:30pm because otherwise she is awake at 2am and fights for hours on going back to sleep.  Each night we adjust the bedtime by 10 minutes or so and last night we kept her awake until 7:30pm which seemed to work well.

She still continues to eat well, play hard and mimic everything we do.  Doug taught her to shrug her shoulders today which was hilarious. Music is definitely her love and it's the only time her head turns towards the TV...Sesame Street seems to get her attention the most and cartoons don't peak her interest at all. (YAY)