The G's come for a visit

This morning, Avery and I dropped off Rachele and Elise at the airport. It was really a fantastic visit. 8-month-old Elise was just adorable and so easy. I would brag about getting a great shot of her smiling, but she is always smiling, so it's really not a great accomplishment.

Avery is doing so well. I have been building up the six-week mark in my head as a difficult week, but so far, so good. We have fully transitioned her to sleeping in her crib in her room at night. She seems to do very well with it - at least right now. She's sleeping anywhere between 2 and 4.5 hours at a stretch at night.

D and I got to have a date night while Rachele & Jay were here. It was great! We went to dinner and a movie (shocker!) We also enjoyed several really good meals, including a Sunday morning quiche prepared by Jay before he left on his flight out Sunday afternoon.

We have also discovered that Avery loves the fitness ball. If I bounce on it with her for 2-3 minutes (sometimes more, but usually not too long), she'll either fall asleep or get drowsy enough for me to put down. This is great because it's the most portable of all the various baby devices we have quickly accumulated. I have bought myself another so I'll have one for upstairs and one for downstairs, and bought D one.

We also finally had our glider arrive and a dresser that we received as a gift. Her room is starting to look a bit more done. No pictures until we get a little further along. I think it'll look quite nice when we finally get everything done. Things progress slowly around here, though, so don't hold your breath waiting on those pictures! To keep you satisfied, here are a few pictures for you:

Mommy & Avery before date night

Rachele, Elise, and Eddie

Aunt Rachele & Avery

Avery sleeps on Daddy

Next up, we have a visit from Grandpa and Grandma - my dad and his wife arrive on Saturday for a few days.
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Some technical details that most people won't care about. I decided not to use the .Mac web gallery for storing photos. I wanted to do a slide show on the blog, so I switched to using Picasa. In summary for those with RSS readers, go to this Picasa album to get an RSS feed for the Daily Avery pictures. These are the pictures that display in the slide show at the top right of this blog. Ah, this all seems very complex, but I did say I was working out the glitches!