My folks were in town for the weekend as they began their Spring Break road trip through Michigan, the Upper Peninsula, and back down through Wisconsin. It was nice to spend a couple days with them. Carrie and I got to go on our second date since becoming parents.
Madelyn had some fun firsts while Grandma and Grandpa were with us. She was asleep in Carrie's arms on Saturday evening and she started laughing out loud. We were all in the room when it happened. We all got quiet and stared at her as she giggled to herself in her sleep for about 15 seconds. It was adorable. Her first smiles were in her sleep as well, and now she does that all the time. We're hoping this means we'll be getting some awake laughter out of her soon.
She also found some uses for her hands aside from just being substitute pacifiers. She is starting to bat at toys that are dangled in front of her. She also started gripping her bottle and even managed to hold it up by herself briefly.
The bedtime routine works really well. I can put her to sleep pretty easily now. Our new problem is that she is now waking up earlier in the morning. I was thrilled to get her down at 9:30 pm, until she decided it was time to get up at 5:30am. Our new target bedtime is 10:00pm. We'll stick with that for a while.
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