Caroline goes to....... her room????

OK-- not because she got in trouble. She is sleeping in her crib now!

Caroline seems to be very sensitive to light during her daytime naps-- the more light, the less she sleeps. So, over the weekend, we put some towels over the window in the nursery (behind the plantation shutters) to make the room dark during the day. She started with naps during the day in her crib over the weekend and has slowly gotten used to it. Yesterday, she took 2 really good 2 hour naps and a short 30 minute nap. She still usually wakes up at some point during her 2 hour naps and I have to help her go back to sleep. But, this is so much better than when she was sleeping in our bedroom during the day and it was 15 minutes here and there and all I did was try to get her to go to sleep. I really think our bedroom is just too bright for her.
She was still sleeping in the bassinet in our bedroom at night-- but just not very well. I won't mentions any names, but a male member of our household snores at night and I think was waking her up. So, last night I put her in her crib, and I slept in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I just still have a hard time thinking of her upstairs all alone at night. Anyway, she slept from 10:15 until 4:45 without much of a peep. This is huge progress!!! Hopefully, she will keep on sleeping well in her crib.

One of the most fun changes in Caroline is how much she is smiling now. As long as she isn't too hungry or tired, she will return my smiling at her with a huge gummy grin and sometimes she even blesses me with a little giggle. It is so fun to interact with her now. She also smiles when she sees lights and shadows that she likes and, of course, the flashing star that I mentioned before.