I am very excited about this.
Taffy has been doing so well and is opening up more and more, however I didn’t realize just how relaxed she has become in our pack until last night.
Every since she arrived, she has always slept curled up in a little ball even when in the bed. Aka tends to be all over me when we sleep. If he isn’t touching me in some way then he wakes up and moves or wakes me up! Taffy, however, began by sleeping on top of the covers near us; then she moved to sleeping against me.
Even when sitting with Aka and I in the recliner she would sleep on her stomach. Well, last night while they were asleep in my lap, Taffy turned over and stretched and then just stayed deeply asleep with her belly exposed and her legs up in the air. She was deeply asleep and totally relaxed and it hit me that this was the first time she has ever done this. Then last night she slept near us and almost on top of Aka at times! I got up once during the night and she had again turned over and both she and Aka were on their backs, legs up, heads tossed back snoring their little hearts out.
That was when I realized that Taffy has really become comfortable and feels safe and that this is “home”. It took everything in me not to scoop her up and hug her but I just gently rubbed her belly and then Aka’s and rolled over on my wee strip of the bed that they allow me to have and just smiled myself to sleep. |