5 Weeks Today

Sometime later this evening Ada-Ruth Lorraine will be 5 weeks of age. Where has the time gone? She's heavier, longer and ... fussier. Somewhat. She's still wonderful and seemingly happy. She's smiling more and her once seemingly random collection of facial expressions is more or less resolving into a discreet handful. There's the 'smile' (see either side here), the thousand yard stare of the merciless killer (see the pic with Granny Southern on left), the sassy, brassy, 'in your face' street-wise urchin (see on the right here), and then there's still the random collection which she whips out when she's having a movement in your lap. And if what we are reading is correct she's on the verge of 'talking', not with words of course, but "with increasing goos, gurgles, and grunts". For the record, her 'word' of choice is the grunt.

In other news I went back to work this week. It's admittedly been nice to be able to get out of the house and spend some time out burning the world down. It has raised a couple problems, however. The first and foremost being sleep. If Ada-Ruth gets up three times during the night and stays awake for an hour each time it was a no big deal when I didn't have to get up at any particular time. But when the alarm goes off at 5 and my total sleep for the evening amounts to roughly 2 hours, it makes for a relatively long day. Fortunately Ada-Ruth is fully prepared to nap when I get home each night. And so is Tycho.