10 Months

Stats:  We will have to wait until her 12 mo. appointment to get all the stats again, but we had to take baby girl in to the clinic shortly after her 10 mo birthday, so we got a weight on her.  Calista is a whopping 16 lbs. 7 oz!  

Health:  Callie was a healthy, bouncing baby girl all through her 10th month!  No reflux, no sickness, just a happy girl.  

Sleep:  This past month really seemed to mark a turning point in her sleep habits.  She started sleeping through the night at Grandma 'Laine's house while we were in Ashland, and it just continued all month long.  Callie goes to bed between 7 and 8, and doesn't usually wake up again until between 6 and 8am.  Sometimes if she wakes at 6, we can feed her and get her back down again, but she hasn't woken up in the middle of the night all month long!

Callie also gets 2-3 long naps a day.  She goes down for naps around 9am, 1pm, and 4:30pm, and her naps usually last between 1-2 hours.  

Clothes/Diaper Size:  She's still fitting well in her 6 month clothes, but we also put her in 9 month layette sets since the pants are longer.  She's a normal height for her age, just a lightweight, so her 6 month pants are all high waters now.  

We use the Costco brand size 3 diapers, but for any other brand, she wears size 2.  

Diet:  Calista has enjoyed a wide range of foods this month!  She's gotten SO much better at biting off finger foods and chewing, so we can give her a wider variety of stuff without her choking.  She eats 3 solid meals a day - jarred baby food, eggs, berries, steamed veggies, pasta, meat, cheese - and we offer a full bottle whenever she goes down or gets up from a nap (so about 3 hours, on average) and she'll drink whatever she feels like.  We also give her a sippy cup with water during meal times, to start the transition from the bottle, and it seems like she's starting to get the hang of it.  

Baby Gear Love:  We don't use a lot of the baby gear anymore now that Calista is moving around so much on her own.  I'd say the Ergo still gets weekly use - I strapped her in during both of Bryann's graduation ceremonies - since she's so wiggley in our laps, and it's a great carrier for sleeping when we're out during one of her naps, or during her bedtime.  

Nicknames:  Babers has caught on with Bryann recently.  Also Callie Girl, Boo Boo, and Callie Bug.  

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:  "Good Morning Callie Sunshine", "Baby Baby Boo" to the tune of the Scooby Doo song.

Milestones/Firsts:  Last month held SO many firsts, this month just can't compete!  But I love the little person she's becoming.  She communicates more in her own baby way.  She talks a lot and she has the most incredible facial expressions!  She will pull herself up on my leg when she wants to be held, she'll start making smacking noises when she wants to be fed, she'll put her arms up when she wants out of a chair, or up in my arms.  She's just really fun to be around!

She's been working on honing all of her new movement skills.  She can walk, assisted, around the room, although she prefers to crawl since she can get around so much faster that way.  She cruises along the length of the couch or windowsill pretty easily now.  She has started crawling with toys in her hands, and switching toys from one hand to the other, bending down to pick up a toy and standing back up again, and even putting toys in her mouth to carry while she crawls around the room.

She's also learning to wave hello and goodbye, and we started working on clapping.  We'll see where that goes at the end of 11 months.  

We've made several long car trips recently - to Klamath Falls at the end of May, and to the beach towards the end of June - and she has done SO great in the car.  She's content for about 2 hours before she needs a stretch/eating break.  

She celebrated Bryann's first father's day.  Which meant that I got to do all the dirty work while Bryann relaxed and enjoyed the day getting only the fun parts.  But I got the same on Mother's Day, so it was a fair trade.  

Father's day Brunch!

For Bryann's Father's Day Brunch, he got to show off his fathering skills by holding his daughter and eating at the same time!

Bryann graduated with his MBA this month, and Callie attended both the hooding ceremony and the graduation ceremony with me.  

At Bryann's hooding ceremony

At Bryann's MBA graduation

Callie went to her first Beer Festival with us.  We met the Schylpers, and some other friends for the Fruit Beer Festival on Burnside, and spent a lovely few hours sampling beers and hanging out in the shade together.  She did really great being held for about 2 hours and visiting with friends. 

Callie with her stunner shades!

Mommies and Babies at Brewfest

Enjoying our first Beerfest together.

She went to the beach for the first time!  We technically made it to Rockaway earlier this year, but it was thunderstormy and the power went out so we went home Saturday night, and we never actually made it to the beach.  But this time the weather was BEAUTIFUL, and we went for long jogs every morning after her first nap, and she got to crawl around in the sand, and play in the water!  

Enjoying an evening at Rockaway Beach

Sitting and playing nicely on the blanket didn't last long!

Callie's first touch of the ocean!

Eating sand and enjoying the beach

Family photo at Twin Rocks

Likes:  Bath time, getting rinsed off after a meal at the sink, eating sand, eating grass, exploring the world with her mouth, KITTY!  Crawling around our bed in the mornings when we're too lazy to get up.  
Dislikes:  Being contained on a lap.  Callie doesn't sit still (ever!) so it's hard to get her to just hang out in your lap, like say for a graduation ceremony!  Being tired and having her diaper changed at the same time.  

Things I Don't Want to Forget:  Driving in the car on the way to the beach and Callie is happily babbling away to herself - or maybe talking to Sam, we couldn't tell - and Bryann and I are in the front seats cracking up laughing at her.  She is so adorable, and entertains herself for surprisingly long periods of time.  

The way Callie lights up and squeals with delight when she sees me walk in to Katee's to pick up her for the day, or when Bryann gets home from work.  It's nice to be so loved.  :-)   

Baby girl takes after her momma!  Whenever I set her down in the kitchen, she crawls right toward the teacup collection!

Our days of evening cuddle naps are numbered... 

LITERALLY Eating the Alphabet!

She just demolished an avocado.

B-52 Play Time!

First boo-boo!  Callie got a little too friendly with kitty and got a swipe to the forehead.

Our Breastfeeding Journey Comes to a Close

I just recently dropped my evening pumping session, so now we're down to either breastfeeding in the early mornings (5 or 6am) or pumping after she wakes up.  I'm not sure when I'll drop the morning feed, but I'm realizing that giving my daughter breast milk may end sooner than I had planned.  My original goal was to breastfeed for a full year.  I didn't want to use formula at all, and I was open to breastfeeding for even longer, possibly up to 2 years.  But things didn't go at all to plan.

Somewhere around the time Callie woke up to the world, she became impatient breastfeeding.  She seemed frustrated waiting for my letdown, and then she seemed to get overwhelmed with the sudden flow of milk and would cough and choke.  She would pull off and look around and get fussy and want to sit up and visually explore her surroundings.  Breastfeeding just stopped being a pleasant experience for both of us, so we started bottle feeding more often.  Callie was calmer with the bottle and would eat for longer sessions.  I could sit her up more, and turn the bottle with her when she turned her head.  She is still absolutely insistent when she is done eating - she'll push the bottle away from her face and turn her head - but getting her to eat is less of a struggle, and when she tells me she's done eating, I am happy to drop the matter instead of pushing her to latch again and eat longer and having us both get more and more frustrated.

And it's probably a good thing we switched to bottle feeding rather than push breastfeeding longer.  She GAINED weight percentiles between her 6 month and her 9 month check up.  It makes me wonder if perhaps we'd switched to more bottle feedings earlier, she wouldn't have dropped weight percentiles so drastically.  But I kept hearing that breastfeeding is best, and that breast milk has so many more nutrients and benefits than formula, so I pushed it longer than maybe I should have (cue mommy guilt).  Ultimately we started just paying attention to our daughter's cues, and she told us what she needed.  And if there wasn't so much noise in the background about how breast is best, and mommy shaming for introducing formula, we may have paid attention to Callie's cues a little sooner.   (No one I actually know has been unsupportive.  The mommy shaming is my own self-inflicted issue from reading the forum sites whenever I googled anything baby feeding related.  Google just makes you feel worse!)

I noticed a drastic drop in my milk supply when I started my period again, when Callie was almost 6 months old, which also made it hard to keep on feeding breast milk exclusively.  Yes, I could have put more time/effort into pumping to keep bottle feeding her breast milk.  Yes, I could have started drinking mother's milk tea, and making lactation cookies, and taking fenugreek supplements to increase my milk supply.  So yes, part of it is me being lazy, but man-oh-man I hate pumping!  And we did our due diligence on the research, and I can't find anything really convincing that says the benefits of breast milk outweigh formula past around 6-7 months of age.  This article on the Timeline of a Breastfed Baby helps ease some of my mommy guilt for not pumping as often anymore.  We actually made it almost 8 months of using exclusively breast milk in her bottle, which is longer than 99% of mothers who start off breastfeeding.  My husband wasn't breastfed at all, and I was only breastfed for 6 months, and we both turned out just fine!  (Better than fine even, considering we're decently smart people with Masters degrees.  And when I consider what a friggin' genius my husband is, it kind of throws all arguments about formula out the window...)

So it is with extremely mixed emotions that I say adieu to our breastfeeding journey.  I know we're doing what's best for our daughter, and I see how she's growing and thriving with formula and the solid foods she's getting, but I can't help feel a twinge of regret that things didn't go according to plan.  Callie is not the type of baby that is content to hang out, relax, get some good mommy cuddles in, and breast feed for an hour at a time (if you've met her, and seen how active and curious she is, you probably could have surmised that yourself!)  She's got shit to do!  Stuff to see!  Things to chew on!  So I'm listening to her more, and accepting her for who she is, and realizing that it's OK for our journey to be a bit different.

First Weekend Away

This past weekend, Bryann and I celebrated our 3-year wedding anniversary WITHOUT THE BABY!!!  We drove down to Klamath Falls and spent a day/night there to help transition Callie to Grandma Lainey's care, and then we drove to Ashland for the rest of the weekend.

In addition to this trip being her first weekend without mommy and daddy, it was our first long-distance car trip with Callie, her first full weekend away from her own crib.  I was really nervous she wouldn't sleep well with all the change in scenery, but coincidentally, she was also getting sick and may have been teething (we haven't seen any teeth pop down yet, so jury is still out on that one)... so yeah, she didn't sleep very well the first few nights.  I even bought an extra little mattress pad for her pack n' play crib, but the first two nights were really rough.  Bryann had been gone all week and I had been having a hard time with her before we even left for the trip, so we didn't exactly set ourselves up for success here.  But we had hotel reservations and play tickets, and PTO requests in, so we weren't about to cancel!

We left Portland at 8:30pm on Thursday (Bryann had driven down from Tacoma that afternoon, so we couldn't leave any sooner) and Callie slept pretty well in the car on the way down.  We stopped in Chemult and I nursed her, and then she slept until Klamath.  We thought we could just change her, feed her and put her back down... Boy, were we wrong!  Enter several hours of screaming and crying and several rounds of whose-turn-is-it-to-comfort-the-baby between Bryann, me, and Gma, and we got maybe 3 hours of sleep that night.  Who knows what was going on, whether she was stuffy and not feeling well, the altitude change, the crib change, the different smells, different room, but she also wouldn't nap without being in someone's arms the next day, and Friday night was equally painful to get her to sleep in her crib.  Thankfully I have the best mother in the world who stayed up with Callie until 1:30 in the morning and finally got her to sleep in her crib.  Bryann and I passed out around 10 thinking she'd be in her crib soon and slept blissfully unaware until 7am.  (Thank you, mom!!)

On Saturday morning, we headed over to Ashland via 66 (gorgeous views of the valley) and started the weekend off with AMAZING brunch at Morning Glory (complete with mimosas to celebrate our freedom!) and checked into our hotel early.  We stayed at the Columbia Hotel right in downtown Ashland.  It's the oldest and longest operating hotel, and we found it to be perfect for our needs.  Small, queen room, shared bathrooms, free coffee, friendly and accommodating staff (they let me use their fridge to store my pumped breast milk) and 2 blocks from the theater and park.

One of our reasons for wanting to visit Ashland was to check out all the areas wineries.  They have a warmer, dryer climate than the Willamette Valley, so I was really looking forward to all of the yummy darker reds!  We decided to follow the blue winery signs and started our wine-tasting itinerary at family-owned Weisinger's where we spent a good hour and a half sipping the wine samples on the sunny deck, listening to some music, and reconnecting.  We even got a private cellar tour from the owner and operator, Eric Weisinger!  And in true Kristi & Bryann fashion, we hadn't planned out any itinerary, so we asked the pourer and some of the locals tasting that day where else we should go, and which restaurants we should try.  We visited Dana Campbell (great views, good wines, delicious pulled-pork sliders), Grizzly Peak (Bryann really liked their Syrah),  and Eliana (we relaxed in the adirondak chairs, and really liked the 2010 Bordeaux Blend).

We got dinner recommendations for Cucina Biazzi, but we couldn't stay to enjoy the recommended full 4-course dining experience because we were cutting it close to the play time, so we didn't like the restaurant as much as we might have otherwise.  Needless to say we were exhausted by that point and not at all looking forward to a 3 hour play.  When we got to will-call to pick up tickets, the cashier handed them over and said "Ok, 2 tickets for tomorrow night.  Enjoy!" and we both exclaimed a sigh of relief.  We called it an early night and enjoyed NOT having to stay awake for a play.

On Sunday, we scheduled a nap for the middle of the day so we wouldn't be so exhausted.  We had breakfast at Greenleaf, took a stroll through Lithia park, and left for the wineries around 11:30.  We started at Trium (tasty Viogneir and Cuvees), then to Paschal (our favorite of the trip - we loved everything on the tasting menu, and enjoyed the tree swings after the tastings), and ended at Pebblestone (probably our least favorite place - all the wines were a bit bubbly which means they bottled them to soon).  We went back into town and had lunch at Standing Stone Brewing Co, and then took a nap and had some down time to relax a bit.  That evening, we had dinner at Loft (dungeness Crab Macaroni and cheese... HelloooooO!!!!) and then saw Cocoanuts that night.

We didn't have time to check out ALL of the wineries, or ALL of the restaurants we would have liked, but luckily, Ashland is an easy weekend trip for us and so close to Klamath that I'm sure we'll be back again.  I started to miss Callie by Monday morning and was glad to go back to see her again.  I wasn't sure how I'd feel all weekend without my sweet baby girl, but I surprised myself.  I called my mom to check in on them around breakfast and dinner, and I didn't worry about them at all.  I knew my mom had everything under control.  I think I felt so comfortable because Callie has already spent a lot of time with Gma Lainey, and she does great being away from me at daycare.  I think every mom/dad/parent has a teensy tiny voice in the back of their head saying "if something happens when I'm away, I'll never forgive myself", but whatareyagonnado?  We had a great weekend away together, and had some much MUCH needed time to reconnect.

9 Months

Stats: Callie gained percentiles this month for the first time since she was 2 months old! She now weighs in at 16 lbs (8th %), is 22.5" long (48th %) and her head circumference is 17.22" (43rd%)!

Health:  Callie got a cold right towards the end of this month, but her reflux hasn't been an issue.  I think she's grown out of it because I truly can't remember the last time she spit up more than just the tiniest little bit.

Sleep:  I've heard that babies never sleep consistently until they're well over a year.  Callie has given us some amazing sleep nights, and some really awful sleep nights.  This month has, in general, been better than last month.  She generally sleeps until 2 or 3, and then gets fed, and goes back to sleep until around 6 or 7.  Bryann and I  haven't been crazy sleep deprived this month, so I call it a win.

She did drop a nap this month.  She used to nap 3 times a day at 9 am, 1 pm, and 4 pm, but she's been working on dropping the 4 pm nap.  Sometimes she can do it if she naps for at least an hour at both the 9 am and 1 pm nap, but if not, she needs a 30 minute catnap at 4.

Clothes/Diaper Size:  She's filling out 6-month onesies and jamies nicely now, but the pants are a little on the small side, so we're going to have to move up to 9-month pants.  She graduated to size 2 diapers, and size 3 diapers at night.

Diet:  I still breastfeed her in the middle of the night, and sometimes before a nap, but for the most part during the day, I'm pumping and she's eating either breastmilk or formula from the bottle.  She gets a big bowl of cereal and baby food in the evenings, and a few extra bites of whatever I'm eating, cut into tiny pieces.

Baby Gear Love:  I still use her swing when she's fussy but not quite ready for a nap.  Or I have a meeting (since I'm still working from home 90% of the time) and I need to pacify her for awhile.

I also use the command center and her walker (one stays downstairs and one stays upstairs) when I need to keep her out of trouble for a few minutes - like when I take a shower, or cook dinner.

The Ergo still goes with us to all events and Callie still loves to hang out in it, strapped to our chests.  Sometimes she's just chill and looks around, sometimes she falls asleep.

And we go on long walks nearly every day, so the Bob stroller is getting some serious use, and is still a super smooth ride.

Nicknames:  Baby Girl, Callie Bug, Goo Goo, Boo Boo, Caleesi (GoT reference).

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:"Dancing Queen" sung every time I'm holding her up and she does her Lord of the Dance jig. 

Milestones/Firsts: 

We saw the entire progression of learning to crawl this month.  First, she started rolling from her back to her tummy and sitting up.  Then she was leaning forward and getting back on her stomach, bringing her knees up, but not quite getting on top of her knees.  She would mostly inchworm and propel herself with her hands backward and forward.  Then she got up on her hands and knees, but couldn't quite figure out how to coordinate her hands and her legs to move forward, so she would just kind of reach forward and fall on her face.  Then, on Mother's Day, she figured it out and crawled across the floor - a good 6 foot distance - in pursuit of my hard cider.

She's also learned to pull herself up into a standing position.  She can only do it with things at her level, like window sills, mommy's knees, coffee tables, and most recently using the bars of her crib, but she's sooooo proud of herself when she pulls herself up.  There's nothing else in the world that makes me so happy as the look on her face when she's discovered a new skill.  

Callie also started sleeping on her stomach during naps and at night.  Once she figured out how to sit up and crawl around, she wasn't interested in going straight to sleep anymore.  Sometimes she'll flip herself over, and crawl around her crib for awhile before passing out on her face.  But mostly, she sleeps on her stomach, sometimes with her butt straight up in the air!

This month, Callie also spent her first weekend away from home with Grandma Lainey!  Bryann and I drove down to Klamath and dropped Callie off at my parents house, and then spent the weekend (our 3-year anniversary weekend) in Ashland.  More on this adventure here.  

Likes:  Bath time, moving, crawling, getting into things, chewing on new things.  She also squeals with delight whenever I come to pick her up from Katee's, or when Bryann gets home from work.  She doesn't mind being dropped off with others (yet) and she LOVES it when she sees either of us after a bit of an absence. 

Dislikes:  Having something she's not supposed to have taken away from her, or being picked up and redirected away from the super interesting computer cords/shoes/floor vents/trash cans.  She'll cry for a few seconds, but she's usually redirected pretty quickly.

Things I Don't Want to Forget:

Nap times got WAY more interesting this month.  With her new found mobility and independence, baby girl decided it would be much more fun if she spent the first 20 minutes of her nap flipping herself over, crawling around her crib getting her leg stuck in the slats and crying, making mommy come back in her room and place her back on her back several times before finally falling asleep.  She figured it out eventually, and stopped getting stuck in the crib slats, but we spent a good 4 days doing this routine.

Not sleeping...

One time I had put her down for a nap and Bryann and I were watching the monitor, laughing at her moving around. She grabbed the crib slats and started to pull herself up. We looked at each other and said "Welp, guess that means we need to lower the crib now!" and ran upstairs, lowered the crib mattress all the way down, and moved the monitor off the crib edge. 

When I feed her at night, and she's done eating, she cuddles up to me and falls back to sleep, completely content in my arms.  It's soooo hard for me to put her back in her crib.  Sometimes I sit there rocking and kissing her forehead for a few extra minutes.

This month has been so much fun watching her develop and become mobile and interested in the world around her.  She's so expressive and seems to just LOVE life.  She must have gotten her mommy and daddy's good humor.  :-)  

Mother's Day

All the mothers with their daughters on Mother's Day

Callie flirting with her daddy

She's so adorable when she naps!

Having a ball in front of the mirror at her 9-month check up

Morning cuddle time with Daddy!

First time she pulled herself up in her crib

Dinner date with BFF Hannah!

8 Months

Stats: No Status updates this month.  We'll know more at her 9 month well-baby visit.

Health: Baby girl didn't get sick again this month!  Woo-hoo!!  Her reflux is under control, no allergies to speak of so far.  It appears all is well.

Sleep: Up until last weekend, I was looking forward to posting about what a dramatic improvement we saw to her sleeping and how much happier and more sane Bryann and I have been.  Since we'd been doing a little sleep training with her and finally got her sleeping (more importantly, falling asleep) without a swaddle, she'd been sleeping beautifully from her 10pm dream feed until anywhere between 5 and 7 am!!  But alas... just before Easter, she threw us a curve ball and has been sleeping horribly since then.  Awake and demanding to be fed at midnight, 3, 5, and up at 7.  I'm assuming she sucks at sleeping right now because either a) she's going through a growth spurt or b) she's going through a developmental spurt.  Hopefully it will get better again soon.

Clothes/Diaper Size:  Baby clothes are officially the weirdest things ever.  Callie can still wear some 0-3 month onesies, and I still use a lot of the 3-6 month clothes, but she also fits comfortably in 6 month clothes.  So... I don't know what to say here.  She is a chameleon in baby clothes.

Diet:  This month we made the decision to start supplementing regularly with formula.  Callie is incredibly fussy and distracted while breastfeeding, except when she's super tired, or it's the middle of the night.  My theory is that she's impatient for my let down and then my milk flow is too fast/forceful for her so she ends up getting overwhelmed and gagging and coughing.  So with the exception of evenings, I pump every 4 hours, and Callie gets a bottle of either breast milk, formula, or a mix of both whenever she gives me the hungry mouth.  She eats solids for dinner with us at the dining table, and if I have time for it in my work-day, she eats solids with me for lunch.

Baby Gear Love:  The "command center" has been our most used item this month.  Otherwise she's more entertained by yogurt cups, cooking utensils, measuring cups, spoons, coffee cup lids, etc than by any of her toys.  If it's new, and she hasn't chewed on it yet, she wants it.

Nicknames:  Callie Bug, Boo Boo, Goo Goo, Baby Girl, Babers.

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:  Added to the repertoire this month is "Poop Machine" ("I'm just a poop machine, and I won't poop for nobody but you" inspired by all of the days she poops 3 times before Bryann gets home, and then nothing for the rest of the evening.)

Milestones/Firsts: SO many firsts this month!!

Callie's first two bottom teeth came in at the beginning of April about a week apart from each other.  When they get a bit bigger, hopefully she'll smile and I'll be able to get a picture of them.

She also started the crawling progression.  First she started pushing herself up from her tummy with straight arms, then pushing backward a bit to lean back on her knees, then pulling her butt up to be positioned on her hands and knees.  Just three days ago she stared consistently getting herself into a sitting position from a tummy position.  She pushes backward to get up on her knees, then swings her legs around front.  She's SO proud of herself when she does it.  Now whenever I try to set her down on her tummy, she puts her hands and knees straight down so she's already in the pre-crawl position.  I still don't think she'll actually be crawling until well into 9 months, but Bryann is convinced it could be any day now.

Callie also started moving around the room while on her tummy by pushing herself backwards.  One day I put her on her tummy and left the living room to go back some coffee, and when I came back, she was near the dining table chewing on a chair leg.

We also hosted our first Easter Brunch at the new house, and had my family + a bunch of friends with no family in town (Gma and Gpa Zaiger, Uncle Adam, David, Reezy, GG (Great-Grandma), Conner, Jess, and Nora, Nate, Belinda, Paul, and Rachel.)

Likes:  Moving around the room either by backwards propelling herself on her tummy, or scootching around on her butt.

Chewing on new things.  The world is her oyster, and baby toy no longer hold much interest if she's already chewed on it, so whatever I see laying around that isn't a choke hazard is usually her new plaything for the afternoon.

Going on walks, or car rides.  She's always so calm in her car seat, and I think really loves the motion, and the changing scenery.

Dislikes:  Being spoon fed.  She'd been doing really great for the last 2 months or so, but this month Callie would much prefer to feed herself thank you very much.  Except we need to get some oatmeal or rice cereal in her system to calm her reflux so when we do spoon feed her, she gets real fussy and grabs the spoon out of our hands.

Having the sun in her eyes.  When we're on walks and we turn a corner and the sun gets in her eyes, she FREAKS out.

Things I Don't Want to Forget:  One night I was looking at the monitor, watching Callie sleep, and I handed it to Bryann and said "Look how cute she is!!  I love her soooooo much!!!" and he said "Remember when you were worried that you wouldn't love her like you'd heard all moms are supposed to?" Oh how deeply in love I've fallen with this child.

When Callie was being really fussy one day, I put a finger in her mouth to see if she was teething yet.  When I found the culprit, I squealed "BABY??!?!  You have a TOOTH!!!!!" and got really weirdly excited and texted Bryann, Cherie, Annie, Tamara, and Katee about it.  Who knew teeth could be so exciting?!