We had a tough week accepting the political realities. It made everything seem just that much harder. Starting on election day, Ella went into this funk during the night where she couldn’t sleep and would wake up crying. The weird thing was that she wouldn’t stay lying down. She had to sit up. Even when she was sitting something was bothering her and she was unconsolable (Kerry’s loss perhaps?). It didn’t seem like she was in pain at first, but it took about 2 hours for her to relax enough to go stop crying and nod off. We had to bring her into our bed so she wouldn’t keep everyone up in the house. For about 3 nights, the only way she would fall asleep was sitting up. One night Etan put a pillow for her head against the crib railing and she leaned against it and dosed off. Netta developed a fever after being treated for an ear infection last week, so I took them both to the doctor on Thursday, expecting that Ella had an ear infection or strep throat. Dr. Marcus didn’t find anything. The next suspicion is always the shunt and we decided to give it a few more days b/c during the day she was fine, in good spirits and acting normal. Finally, on Friday she slept the whole night through and I think she’s ok. In retrospetc I think the problem was congestion due to a cold that was causing her discomfort and possibly headaches. Ella had a playdate yesterday with Nathan from her class (he’s dressed as a firefighter in the halloween video). It went very well and I’m encouraged that kids like to be with her. Nate played school with her. He likes being the teacher (a.k.a. Kim) and Ella is the perfect pupil cause she goes along with almost any plan. They also played piano together, sang songs, did puzzles, tossed balls and listened to music. It was really cute…