Saturday

Today was nice. Stayed up until 2am playing online. I lost my spaceship to a catastrophic hail of lasers and missiles, and lots of my friends lost theirs, but we had fun. Slept until 0815, did some dishes and then went upstairs to check on Carina. She was awake, just laying quietly in her crib and playing with her feet. Big smile for daddy. Back downstairs I surprised her with a bowl of rice instead of the bowl of oatmeal she's used to. Several more big smiles. More big smiles for mom, for dogs, for sunlight, for dinner time and feeding herself chicken and brocilli mush from her bowl, and then after bath time there were smiles and stares of wonder for moonlight and the sounds of dusk.

In a nice contrast to most of this week, nearly every time today Carina went to sleep without a fuss. Even though she's only spent a few hours a day at day care in the afternoon, it's been hard getting her to unwind at the end of the day. Some evenings were spent with her crying loudly except for A) bites of food, B) some gulps of milk, and C) bath time. Given all that took a few hours, it was a lot of crying. But today she was great.

Today was nice.