More than the leaves are turning!

For the very first time, Alexa turned over from her back to her tummy last night... TWICE! She's been turning on to her side, but has not been able to make it the rest of the way over. Until last night that is.

Matt and I were sitting her watching Ghost Hunters and playing with her. She was laying on her play gym Uncle Patrick and Auntie Kelly gave her. And next thing we knew she was pushing her giraffe out of the way and rolling on over. We tried to get the camcorder out in time to film it, but we didn't catch the rolling. Just the end result.

Another recent change is that she's laying on her side to sleep. It's so precious. We put her down on her back like the doctors say we should, but once she's asleep she's on her side. We have an Angel Care monitor. It was expensive, but worth the piece of mind. It detects movement. It's sensitive enough to pick up her breathing and heart beat. So if it goes 20 seconds without detecting any movement an alarm sounds. Since we can't do anything to stop her from sleeping on her side, it's given us some reassurance. So now we just get to enjoy how cute she looks sleeping.

She's been doing a pretty good job of sitting up. She can't do it on her own yet, but she's attempted it much to mama and daddy's panic! She can sit against the back of the couch. We make sure to protect her from her own ambitious attempts to fling herself forward. And she loves sitting in her bumbo. We're just enjoying each day with her and trying not to anticipate what is next for fear of missing the present with her!

This is one of Matt's favorite recent pictures of her: