Happy Easter!

April 6, 2010

My goodness. A fortnight comes round quickly, doesn’t it? It seems like Ellie-May is a different baby every two weeks at the moment. She’s looking around her more and more and recognising Mama and Daddy when she sees us. She loves the play mat and her mobile with the zoo animals on it. Ellie has the most amazing smile which we’re being treated to more frequently – it’s nearly a chuckle sometimes. She’s also starting to make gurgling and cooing noises as if she’s telling us what’s going on. Night time sleeping seems to be improving and just occasionally we can all sleep from midnight to 5am without needing to feed. The colic is still a problem, but we’ve had a couple of days recently when she went down to sleep at 8.30pm without screaming. Those are amazing times when Tom and I sit on the sofa and try to remember what it was we used to do B.E. I’m sure it was nothing important! It’s reassuring for us to know that she can go to sleep early when she’s not being plagued by tummy troubles.

Over Easter we took Ellie to church a couple of times. She cried all through the Good Friday service. I’d like to think this shows an early awareness of the solemnity of the day, but subsequent evidence suggested that she was just ravenous. On Easter Day Ellie received her first blessing. Our lovely vicar managed to capture all of the things that I pray for her in just a few beautiful sentences. He finished by saying, “May you grow to be the lady that God has created you to be.”What more could we wish for our baby girl?

And now for a few pictures: