Today was wonderful. We left early to drive to Corvallis to visit Ted, Christy, Anders and their new baby, Nora. We lounged at the Corvallis Farmer's Market for several hours -- eating yummy cheese and bread and fruit. Anders, who is 3, was riding his bike super fast around the cool water fountain in the park. Nora slept peacefully in my arms for a bit. Eli ate a ton, as usual :)
Then Eli and I went to a baby shower for Kate Evans. A little girl named Savannah was quite smitten with Eli and kept coming over to talk to him, try to give him jelly beans, take his socks off and perform other very important tasks. Eli was very happy and smiled and squealed at everyone.
Michael and I were pretty tired by the end of the day so we put Eli down for a nap and then fell asleep ourselves. But Eli woke up while we were still exhausted and I just brought him into bed with us and we took a big family nap. Eli was nursing the entire time and it was quite sweet. We slept until almost 7 p.m. (Eli's bedtime is usually 7:30 p.m.) Then we took the dogs to the park. I brought some food along for Eli, who is always hungry! He ate these tiny pieces of banana and he was very careful about chewing each and every one. In fact, he is always trying to get his two lower teeth into the banana piece to cut it into smaller pieces.
Oh, important sleep update: Eli has been basically sleeping through the night all week! A few times he has woken up once between 7:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. and Michael has been able to sing him part of a song and Eli goes back to sleep. Michael doesn't even pick him up or anything. Amazing. We feel great :)
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