Two big things:

1 - Mara is home! Yay! She's a little slower on the stairs and I've seen her bump into a few pieces of furniture so she's not totally herself, but she's doing so much better! She's still on medication but we're going to try and wean her off in the next week or so.

2 - James slept through the night last night! He was in his bassinet by 9:30pm or so. He woke up shortly after 10 but just needed some repositioning and he was back to sleep. And he didn't wake up again until 6am! Woo-hoo! And I only woke up once, when Annika woke once during the night. Annika went back to sleep on her own and I didn't even have to get out of bed. Now, I wonder when James will repeat this sleeping miracle! I wonder if it will be days, weeks or months!

Yesterday Annika and I played outside while Kris was inside with a sleeping James. At one point Annika wanted me to join her in looking at the tree on our front lawn. Then she laid down next to it and asked me to lay down by her. We spent a few minutes laying next to each other on the grass, staring at the cloudless, brilliantly blue sky above us. It was pure heaven. Then we looked at each other and smiled. The love between us was palpable. Then she rolled over, gave me a kiss and up she got to go play some more. Couldn't you just melt? I surely did. I remember laying on the grass, staring at the sky when I was a kid too. I would watch the clouds go by and wonder why I couldn't feel the earth moving. (I was in 4th-6th grade I'm assuming when I did this.)