All Smiles

 

For a solid hour my darling little girl

 lay in my arms today and loved me back. 

 

She has been so sad. 

 She sleeps, she nurses, and she screams. 

 

We (meaning I) have eliminated:

 

dairy

soy

wheat

nuts

beans

tomatoes

so...

pretty much we have eliminated everything but air.

 

She wakes squealing.  She looks fine and then begins to pull up her knees and fuss.  She cries every waking moment for hours on end.

 

I was giving up.

I've ordered some herbal baby-belly tonic for colic

and am prepared if I need to take her to the doctor

 (I think it might be reflux) to get medicine. 

 

Guy and I went to my physical therapy appointment this afternoon.  The doctor gave me lots of exercises to do to get my legs strong again, to build up my balance and get back my range of motion, and she noticed that my leg looks odd.

 

I noticed too.

Its reddish, and has been feeling a little tighter

and tinglier and more painful for a few days.

I guess we will be going back for an ultrasound.

*sigh*

 

But Natalie slept the whole time.

Then we stopped to visit my friend Laura to show her the baby.

Natalie was happy the whole time.

We went by the fish store to return a nearly-dead fish.

Natalie was fine.

We popped over to Krista's and Robin's to pick a few things up

and Natalie cried a bit, but once we got home she was fine.

 

We sat together and she started smiling

over and over.

For a whole hour she stared into my eyes

and returned my smiles.

 

Heaven.

 

It might have been a fluke. 

We might not get to see this particular happy baby again, but wow,

what a great hour, and what a great afternoon.

 

Our 5th child to get Guy's dimples.  Lucky girl.

 

She's lookin' like she may be a redhead...