All Smiles

Baby is getting big!  She started smiling almost two weeks ago, just around five weeks old.   Now at seven weeks she is such a smiley baby!  This morning when she woke up hungry at 8am I picked her up from the crib and she gave me so many big smiles.  David came out while I was feeding her and she gave him a big toothless grin as well.  Just the last couple of days she has spent more and more time awake.  This has been very fun because she is interacting with smiles and coos, but also a little frustrating because she has fussed a little more.  Her mommy is still doing very well.  She hasn't missed any visits.  We thought that something might happen around a case planning meeting on June 7th, but that meeting had actually been waved from the beginning, but nobody knew it.  The casa guardian ad litum called and asked for some input on Hennessy, and she told me that court was set for June 29th, so that is when we think baby will go home.  My friend Cameron from our ward said the most important thing to remember is that you never know what is going to happen.  I told David that if she is going to go home, I really need it to happen sooner than later.  I'm starting to get very attached.  We went to my nephew Scott's homecoming last weekend, and left baby with respite.  I really missed her and worried about her.  A couple of weeks ago I went to the shared information meeting and met the mom and her grandma.  It was very good for me.  I could see how much she loved her baby and really wants her.  It helped me want to be a support to her.  We have communicated in notes back and forth, after we met I think she could accept me better.  We will see what happens.  Oh, that's her I hear on the monitor.  gotta go.