Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Long, Chicago Winter













If it were up to me, we'd be having lots of outdoor adventures right about now... going on long walks, venturing out to parks, perhaps a trip to the zoo. We'd be seeing everything we can see. But, alas, winter 2008-2009 has something else planned for many of us. So, we've been inside a lot.
Maeve's been smiling a bit. Can I say how much that thrills us to see? I've tried to capture them, but it's hard, so hopefully you can see a bit of it in these pics. We moved her into her crib (she had been sleeping in a moses basket next to our bed for the past 9 weeks) ...mostly because we had a giant flood in our apartment last Friday night, so now we are all sleeping in Maeve's room. At our last ped. appt, the doctor asked if Maeve favored turning towards one side...and she does. This is a problem since it can cause "positional plagiocephaly"...meaning a flat head on one side. We got an expensive, MD approved pillow-device for her to sleep in, which is supposed to prevent her from turning her head to the favored side. As you can see from these pictures, the girl still finds a way to turn her head to her right, AND to wiggle her way off of the "symmetry sleep system" entirely. We're told that it's not the end of the world if she continues to favor that side of her head...

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