Alanna wakefulness and cuteness

I went to bed last night at 11. Alanna had gone down to sleep somewhere between 9 and 10, I believe. She woke just after 1 am. And stayed awake. It was a lovely cheerful awake! But oh, I was tired. She nursed, she played. At just after 5 am I woke up selenite and pleaded for help - he took her over and sent me to another room to sleep, and got Maggie on the bus. Bless him.

One of the heart-stoppingly sweet things she was doing was that several times she reached up, got a hand behind my neck, and pulled me down to her, gave me a big kiss, and said "ah wah wu!" I'm taking that as I love you.

This morning after breakfast - I made blueberry muffins for the younger two - she found a towel and wrapped it around herself, came up to me and said "Ba? Ba?" I said "Bath?" and made the sign, and she signed and said BA! So we went upstairs for baths.

She's doing very well at drinking from straws these days. She always wants my drink. She has a sound that's sorta a daaaa! on a rising pitch that is her approximation of drink, and she'll reach her hand towards it - and when I start giving it to her, she says "yeah yeah YEAH!"

And her favorite song these days is Head Shoulders Knees and Toes. She'll even try starting it while she's nursing.