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?!

7 Months

Stats: Callie actually doesn't have another appointment until her 9 month well-baby visit, so no more stats until then.

Health: Sweet baby girl got sick again this month.  Luckily it was only another 24-hour bug, but Bryann and I still suffered a miserable night of crying baby and no sleep.  Unfortunately it coincided with the night we were trying to get her to sleep un-swaddled and doing some cry-it-out, so we didn't realize she was running a fever and was sick until well into the night, at which point I felt like a terrible neglectful parent for letting her cry so much!  Mostly she just wanted to be held and snuggled so we took turns going in every 45 minutes and picking her up and snuggling her back to sleep.  I even took her to bed with me at one point because we were so desperate for sleep, but she didn't sleep long even laying next to me.  After a healthy does of Tylenol late into the night, we all finally caught a few hours of rest, and she was pretty much back to normal 36 hours later.

Sleep:  As mentioned above, we began some serious sleep training this month.  She had started to wake up every 2 hours at night like a newborn and we'd have to go in to her room and put her pacifier back in to get her back to sleep.  Plus she's at the age where, since she can roll from back to tummy (though she rarely does) she shouldn't be swaddled at night so that, if she somehow manages to roll onto her tummy in the middle of the night she has her arms free and can get back over and doesn't suffocate.  So we've started the process of unswaddling at night.  Currently she has 1 arm free and 1 arm swaddled down.  It took maybe 2 nights of some pretty painful progressive crying to get her to self-soothe and put herself to sleep at night, but we are back to the point where we can lay her down awake and she'll babble to herself for awhile, fling her pacifier around a bit, put it in her mouth finally, and fall asleep.  She's even been sleeping in some pretty nice 6 hour stretches.  She's even given us 7 and 8 hour stretches before.  Hopefully this becomes a thing and she'll consistently sleep longer.  We ALL need the extra rest...

Clothes/Diaper Size:  Callie is still wee-bitty.  I can still squeeze her into Carter brand 0-3 month onesies, but for the most part she's wearing her 6 month clothes pretty well.  She's still in size 1-2 diapers during the day and size 2 diapers at night.

Diet:  We've been exploring some new and exciting baby foods this month!  Callie gets solid foods every night for dinner, and Katee feeds her solids on the days when she watches her.  We usually mix 2 tbs dry oatmeal with 1 oz formula and 1/3 of a jar of the baby food du jour.  That way we can test new foods for 3 days to see if she has any allergies.  We've gone through apples, bananas, apple/banana/strawberry (which I think she had a reaction to because her chest broke out in a little rash), sweet potatoes, squash, and we're currently making our way through a jar of peas.  She's gobbled down every new flavor we've tried so far!  She's also had a few finger foods like banana and graham cracker (which she just gums) and pear slices with the skins peeled off.  I may look into making our own baby food purees at home, but it just wasn't worth the energy or cost savings right now since we're just trying one new food at a time over the course of several days.  Eventually we'll take her off purees entirely and give her finger food versions of what we're having for dinner.

Baby Gear Love:  Bryann bought her one of those exer-saucer things she can stand in and she's been LOVING life while playing in it.  We call it her command center because she can do 360 turns in it playing with all the toys and looking around the room.  She loves to stand and jump and it's the only place we can set her for any length of time without her getting super fussy.

Nicknames: Goo-Goo has morphed into Boo-Boo lately, so mostly I call her Baby and Boo-Boo.

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:  Callie gets a song before nap time and I'll cycle through Rock-a-bye Baby, Moon River, Baby Mine, and Mockingbird.

Milestones/Firsts:  Callie has been sitting really well on her own this month.  I can sit her up in the living room with some toys in front of her while I go in the kitchen, get coffee going, let Sam out and feed him, and get breakfast ready.

We survived Bryann's first business trip away.  I guess Callie has already experienced having BOTH of us gone and a weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Z, but this time it was just us girls for four days, and we did pretty great on our own.  I got exhausted and was glad when Bryann came home though.  :-)

Callie is also experiencing her first remodeling project.  We started on the family room this month, tore out the carpet and the built-ins, and installed new pot lights, bar lights, framed out part of a wall for new built-ins, and have done some painting.  Callie LOVES being in the basement because it echoes and she screeches and squeals to hear the sound of her own voice.  She plays in her command center while we work, and then when she gets fussy, I strap her into the Ergo and continue working.  It's been a lot of fun.

Likes:  Sitting up, playing with non-baby toys like phones, and cords, and breakable items, playing in her pink walker and her Command Center.  Being in the basement and screaming to hear the echos.  Being outside (she starts crying when I bring her in).  Chewing on anything she can get her grabby little hands on.  Splashing around during bath time (she starts crying when I take her out of the tub).  Hanging out with all of her aunties and uncles (aka our friends) at all of our various parties and goings-on this month - Wine & Dine, Kimber's going away party, book club, general hanging out and only very mild shenanigans (we're parents now!)

Dislikes:  Being tired and getting put down for a nap.  I still haven't figured out the right timing for putting her down before she gets REAL fussy.  She always seems to get to the crying/screaming point before I've got her all changed and swaddled and ready to go down.  Being on her stomach for extended periods of time.

Things I Don't Want to Forget:  This has been my favorite month so far.  Callie's personality has really started to shine through.  When I look at her, I don't see a baby anymore, I see a real person with thoughts and emotions and opinions.  She's started to communicate in her own baby way.  She's developed all these different sounds that are absolutely identifiable to communicate what she wants.  Mostly it's that she wants to be picked up, or wants a new toy to play with, or wants to sleep or eat.  But it's so fun watching her interact with the world and with people.  She smiles and squeals with delight and even gives in to giggles every once in awhile.  She's a very discerning laugh-er.  Only the MOST hilarious things elicit a laugh from her.

One night in particular I don't want to forget - Bryann came home late and I had been having a long day at work, so he took over baby duty and got Callie in the bath, and while I'm sitting in the living room having quite "me" time, I hear her splashing away in the bath and Bryann giggling at her, and I couldn't help coming in and joining in the fun.  "Me" time didn't matter anymore.  I wanted to have these memories of playing together as a family.

Trying out her rocking chair - passed down from GG

6 Months

Stats:  
Callie had her 6 month check-up postponed a few times because I had to travel so much for work this month, so these are her 6 1/2 month stats.  Callie weighs 13 lbs 9 oz (5th percentile), is 25 1/2" long (30th percentile) and her head is 16.63" (36th percentile).  Our pediatrician says she's small but hearty and that her height/weight growth curve is moving along normally, so she isn't concerned about her growth.  WHEW!

Health:
Callie caught her first cold this month.  I also caught the same cold on the exact same day, so poor Bryann had to take care of a sick baby AND a sick wife.  Callie was really, uncharacteristically fussy on Saturday while Bryann was at school, and I was like "WTF is going on?".  Then that night, she REFUSED to go to sleep for more than 45 minutes, and I didn't notice she was running a little warm until I fed her at like 2 am.  So I took her temperature at 100.4, called the RN line to see what to do... Apparently nothing- stupid babies and colds - we were told to let her immune system do it's thing and not to give Tylenol for fevers below 102.

So I basically breastfed her every hour and sucked the snot out of her nose with the Nose Frida (amazing invention).  When she wasn't sleeping, she was crying, and both Bryann and I (at one point or another) got so annoyed and fed up with the crying that we needed to take a break or we might have gone insane.  I don't know how single parents do it.  I'm completely baffled that anyone is able to survive raising a kid on their own.  We actually gave in around 4pm on Sunday and gave her some Tylenol.  30 minutes later she was 90% back to herself.  By Monday she was fine, but I was still sick.  Stupid babies and their stupidly amazing immune systems...

I DID learn a few things though - apparently breast milk delivers antibodies specifically tailored to fight whatever illness she's dealing with, and adjusts it's temperature to suit her body temperature.  Breast milk also helps keep the mucous in the nose from proliferating and keeps babies from getting all stuffed up.

Poor baby girl is sick...  :-(  

Sleep:  
Callie has gotten into this terrible habit of waking up at 1:30 am now.  Usually Bryann puts the pacifier back in and she's asleep again.  Sometimes that doesn't do the trick and he bottle feeds her.  But she's always up again between 3 and 4 am.  Then again between 6 and 7 am.  We are exhausted...

Clothes/Diaper Size:  
We moved Callie into size 2 diapers at night and are going through the last of our size 1/2 diapers during the day.  She's fitting nicely in her 3-6 month clothing, though occasionally I can squeeze her into a 3 month outfit depending on the brand.  I even have Cherokee brand NEWBORN clothes that she still fits nicely into.

Diet:  
Callie is still breastfeeding, and eating nicely from the bottle.  I'm SO glad the bottle battle is over!  We introduced some solids to her diet towards the end of this month.  We started spoon feeding her bowls of oatmeal at night, and she's played around with some mushed carrots.  I think she even got a few carrot chunks in her mouth, rather than all over her face!

Baby Gear Love:  
We're still getting great use out of her Ergo carrier, her strollers (both the BOB and the stroller frame for her car seat), and since she's still a little (ok, a LOT) small for her highchair, I purchased a used Bumbo with tray on CL, and she's been much easier to feed in it.

There are lots of mixed opinions out there about whether Bumbos, or walkers, or any sort of seat that enables babies to sit before they're "ready", but we really only put her in them for short amounts of time (10 minutes here and there) and closely monitor her while she's in them.

Nicknames:  
Nothing new this month.  Lots of variations with the word "Goo" and "Monster" in it.  Googley Bear came back since we watched Monsters Inc. the other day.

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:  
Callie seems to enjoy any music at all.  I turn on my Pandora stations during shower time, or while I'm working and she's playing on her jungle mat.  I also sing all the usual silly songs while I'm feeding her, burping her, changing her, or playing with her.

Milestones/Firsts:
Sitting up.  Callie can balance herself pretty well leaning forward and doing a tri-pod thing with her arms.  She sits really well on my lap, leaned against a corner of the couch, or with the boppy pillow supporting her sides. 

Sitting up before she's even 6 months old!

Eating cereal from a spoon.  Lots of adventures in eating this month!  She likes to grab the part of the spoon with the food on it, but never manages to actually get any food in her mouth.  So I end up holding her hands while I feed her so she can slurp the oatmeal off the spoon.  She's SUPER smiley through the whole process and leans forward for the next bite.

Exploring some oatmeal and some spoon

Half-rolling back to tummy.  We have to help her roll over because she hasn't figured out the leg fling yet.  So we hold her leg down opposite side and she flips herself on over.  She's enjoyed playing on her stomach a lot more this month.

Doing the half-assed half-roll

Crying to get attention or to protest against having whatever she got hold of taken away.

First Snow.  We had Snowmagedon 2014 hit Portland this month and got a good 8 inches of snow at our house!  We couldn't help taking her out and snapping a few pictures.

SNOOOOOWWWW!!!

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I know this is all about Callie, but look how cute Sammy is!

First cold.

First baby play date.  I had Annie & Clara, Tamara & Hannah, and Katee & Isaac over for a good ol' baby play date and mommy gossip session.  Annie brought her camera and snapped some awesome photos, and it was really nice watching all the babies interact with each other.  Isaac brought his farm over because he wasn't sure whether we would have an appropriate amount of toys, but he ended up ignoring his farm and SUPER into Callie's Disney Princess walker and her Jungle play mat.

First time spending a few days alone with Grandma Lainey and Grandpa Jake.  Bryann and I both had work trips scheduled (me in LA and Bryann in Tacoma) over the same period and my parents were amazing and came to watch her for a few days while we were gone.  She fared just fine.  She ate from the bottle like a champ and even slept well.  I think I had a harder time being separated from her than she did.  I came back at like 10:30 at night, went in to feed her and she woke up for a few minutes, said "goo goo ga ga" (translation "Hey mommy!  How was your trip?  Nice to have you home. Welp, gotta get back to sleep.") and went straight back to sleep.  For my part, I enjoyed a few nights of un-interrupted sleep, and work and some LA friends kept me occupied while I was away, but I think 3 days away from my baby and my family is about my upper limit.  By the end of the trip I couldn't WAIT to get home.


Likes:
"Coffee Talk" (in the voice of Amy Pohler and Maya Rudolf on SNL).  This is where I drink coffee while Callie talks to me, and I ask her to expound on her thoughts.  She really does have some fascinating opinions already!

Putting things in her mouth.  Seriously.  Everything she gets her hands on goes in her mouth.  I even got her a little too close to my valentines roses when we were having mirror time in the kitchen, and she got hold of the rose buds and yanked the rose out of the vase and started chewing on it.  And she moves SO FAST, I couldn't stop her in time so she ended up yanking out a bunch of the petals.

Getting "kiss-monster"ed in the face.

Being thrown in the air.

Dislikes:  
Being tired.  Callie definitely has some great "put me down for a nap IMMEDIATELY" signals, including rubbing her eyes like crazy.  I once caught myself rubbing my eyes when I was really tired and cranky one night, and I was like "Hmmm... I now know where she gets that from!"  Perhaps it IS just a baby thing in general to rub ones eyes, but I prefer to think she's inherited all of my adorable quirks.  (Yes, my quirks are ADORABLE!!)

Things I Don't Want to Forget:
Spoon feeding her oatmeal cereal for the first time.  She would get a good bite down her gullet and then look up at me and smile oh-so-proudly!  UGH she's the cutest!!

One time we put her on her stomach in her nursery to try to entertain her longer before putting her to sleep, and she full-on planked like a seal, and lifted her legs super high up in the air behind her.  I swear they went above her head.  Bryann and I laughed and laughed and laughed.

Singing "Happy Half Birthday to You" in our family room with my parents and with Reezy on the phone.  Bryann was still in Tacoma on a work trip, and I had just gotten in from my work trip and was exhausted and hazy.  But it was still wonderful to reach that milestone with her and sing to celebrate.

Tummy time with Daddy

Enjoying her toes these days

She's quite the early reader

Just being adorable.  Don't judge the Reindeer jammies in February!

She LOOOOOOOVES playing with her toes

Pumping in the airport while I'm on my business trip

My milk stash when I got back from my 4-day trip

Polk-dot Queen of the World!!

5 Months

Stats:  We skipped the 5-month check up, but I took some measurements at home.  Our bathroom scale (measuring the difference between me and Callie) says she's about 13lbs. (11th percentile) and I measured her at 25.75" long (68th percentile).  Apparently she's just growing tall and not growing chubby yet.

Health:  We seem to have gotten her reflux under control.  At Callie's 4-month check up, our ped upped her baby Zantac dose to 0.7ml twice daily.  Since then I've seen a pretty big improvement.  She still spits up occasionally, but doesn't soak her clothes requiring several outfit changes a day like she used to.  

Aside from the reflux, she's healthy as can be!

Sleep:  I wish I'd appreciated her sleeping more during month 2 and 3...  This month has been really up and down.  At one point this last month, she was up every 45 mins to 2 hours.  Then she'd sleep long stretches (10pm-5 or 6am) for one or two nights, making me think waking up so often the few nights before was just a fluke.  But really it's the sleeping long stretches that was the fluke.  Usually she's down at 8, dream feed at 10, then she's awake and hungry between 1:30am and 2:30 am, and again between 4am and 5am.  

At one point last week, I was so exhausted (and my boobs were worn out from her eating at 2am and increasing my milk supply for that time frame, then skipping that feeding the next day and sleeping until 5am, making me engorged and in pain,) I told Bryann I couldn't do any more feedings before 4am, and if she woke up before then, he'd have to take over with a bottle.  Since then, she's still woken up a few times in those early morning hours, but Bryann's been starting by putting the pacifier back in, and she usually falls back to sleep.  She's only not fallen back to sleep once, and she took 2.5 oz from a bottle at 1:30am with no problems.  (yay!!)

Clothes/Diaper Size:  I officially had to pack up all of her Newborn sized jammies and onesies.  She's filling out the 0-3mo, and just starting to fit comfortably in the 3-6 mo clothes.  She's still wearing the 1-2 diapers from Costco, but once those run out, we'll be able to use all those size 2 diapers I got my baby shower.

Diet:  Still breastfeeding!  Yay!  She gets pumped breastmilk in a bottle when I'm at work and Katee is watching her, and she's been doing SO much better with the bottle this month.  Almost no fuss anymore!  *crossing fingers it will stay that way...*  

She also gets a bedtime bottle with rice cereal mixed in to the breastmilk, because 1) we need to get some extra calories in her to help her gain weight better 2) rice cereal helps manage her reflux and 3) she eats more from the bottle at bedtime than what I can pump.

Baby Gear Love:  I still use her swing and her jungle play-mat daily.  We've been able to use some of the toys we got from the baby shower and as hand-me-downs and we particularly like her soft Elephant rattle and a sunshine face rattle.

Nicknames:  Callie-bug, Goober Boober, Babers, Goo-ga-moo, Googley-Bear.  I've also nicknamed myself "Mommy Kiss Monster".

Favorite Songs/Lullabies:  If I start singing the feeding song "Yummy yummy yummy, you've got milk in your tummy..." she'll stop eating and look up at me and smile and giggle.  I taught her "Auld Lang Syne" this month so she could sing along at New Years.  She just generally appears to like any old song with any old words I seem to make up and sing to her all day long.

Milestones/Firsts:  Callie has officially started (purposely) reaching for and grabbing toys, and then sticking them in her mouth.  Really anything she gets her hands on goes in her mouth.  She's almost figured out how to put her pacifier back in her mouth, too.  

We heard her first giggles this month.  She's not one to giggle easily, so sometimes it takes quite a bit of silliness on our parts to get her to giggle.  Mostly she just squeals with delight and does this extended-smiling bit, but every so often, she lets out a "hee-hee-hee".  

Callie can also stand supported for a goodly length of time, and she likes to sit up supported, either with our hands under her armpits, or leaning against us sitting on our laps.  

This month, Callie experienced her first New Year's Eve.  We hosted the 3rd Annual Turner's New Years Bash, and she REFUSED to go to sleep.  So we ended up bringing her downstairs to join the party, and putting her in the Ergo when she finally got tired (which I think was around 10:00).  She woke up again right around 11:30 and Bryann almost missed the countdown because he was feeding her and putting her to bed. 

Callie also got to meet her Great-Grandpa Joe!  Papa came to visit for a few days just before the new year, and I know it was really special for Bryann, and meant a lot to us both.   

Callie with Great-Papa Joe

Super Dad with Grandpa

Likes: Watching me shower while I sing and dance and make funny faces at her.  Standing up on the bathroom counter and cooing at herself in the mirror.  Talking, thbbt-ing, and coughing on purpose, discovering all the sounds she can make now.

Getting her diaper changed.  Being thrown in the air (but just the teeniest tiniest bit, or I get a little anxious!)

Dislikes:  Not being put down for a nap or being fed IMMEDIATELY when she decides it's time.

Things I Don't Want to Forget:  Every DAMN time I watch Bryann playing with Callie...  Just KILLS me.  I think I might die of my heart melting.  

Bryann feeding her with a bottle at bedtime and remarking "Remember when this used to be hard?"  

Callie squealing at me while I sing for her and play peek-a-boo in the shower.  

The Baby Zantac Saga:

Day 1- Kristi leaves cap off newly refilled prescription. Bryann unknowingly spills said newly filled prescription into drawer and soaks baby clothes in baby Zantac. Kristi notices bottle is missing from dresser and Kristi and Bryann get into spat about whose fault it is that baby Zantac is now out again. 

Day 2- Kristi refills prescription yet again while pharmacy lady wonders what sort of underground baby Zantac drug ring tired mom is running. Bryann spills bottle of baby Zantac AGAIN, this time through no fault of Kristi's, but Bryann tries to blame the baby and her exuberant kicking. Perhaps if Bryann left baby lying down on changing pad and hadn't picked baby up and placed her legs within kicking range of bottle, bottle would not have been kicked over. Bryann takes full responsibility for his actions and hopes Kristi won't kill him. 

Day 3- Kristi refuses to be seen at Pharmacy again, so Bryann goes in to pick up prescription YET AGAIN as well as deli dinner for the drive out to beach house. Bryann leaves bottle in the same bag as deli dinner. Kristi finishes deli dinner and throws away bag. Kristi asks Bryann where the baby Zantac is when they arrive at beach house that evening. Bryann says in the food bag. Kristi bangs head against wall. 

Day 4- Kristi refills prescription for the 4th time, claiming it was forgot at home while on vacation.  Monkey at Tillamook Fred Meyer Pharmacy is inept and Kristi spends 2 hrs on the phone back and forth between pharmacy and clinic. Insurance now thinks something fishy is going on and won't pay for prescription. Luckily baby Zantac is cheap...

Callie with Great-Papa Joe, GC, and Auntie Whitley

Winter walks with the baby through Cook Park

Bryann with our other "child"

Hanging out in Hannah's Bumbo

Chewing on her hands, enjoying life after keeping us up all night

Enjoying a cuddle nap

Playtime with Daddy

Colts V. Patriots!

Colts V. Patriots with the mamas

Trying to eat her Mr. Sunshine rattle

Throwing a tantrum during "tummy time" 

With Uncle Adam and G-pa Jake after Adam's MBA graduation ceremony

Look how big she's getting!

Ready for some football!

Kitty napping on top of baby, napping on top of me.  

Daddy-Daughter playtime on the kitchen counter.  I love the way she's looking at him!