Hanging out with Kyson

Time spent with other small humans

makes this girl very happy!

Especially when they are big enough

to help her out by giving her the paci.

Kyson decided to give her paci a try,

even though his mother (my best friend Keysha)

says that he never ever has taken a paci.

He might even try to pick her up

and get her wherever she needs to go.

Even though we should try to tame that wild hair

before we let him take her out in public.

It's even fun to be fed a bottle by her new friend.



I just know these two are going to be friends for a long, long time.

A rolling she can go...

Callie can now roll over any way she would like. She has been able to roll from front to back for about a month. And now she has mastered rolling from back to front! She had been trying to get it but she seriously couldn't do it very well on Wednesday and did it like a champ on Thursday. Like it was the easiest thing in the world.

I caught her on video on Saturday (2-19-11). Rolling over like it's nothing. Atta girl Callie!

And Lambeau really is alive in the background. He's just a heavy sleeper. Literally. HAHA

Bye bye bouncy seat

We moved Callie to her crib at 3 weeks old. At first she slept swaddled and in a sleep positioner in her crib. Then somehow, we ended up putting her in her bouncy seat to sleep. I seriously cannot remember how or why we did this. At all. Maybe she had fallen asleep in there once and I decided to start putting her in there at night. No idea. Can't remember for some reason. I can't remember how old she was when we started that either. I do know that when I took Callie to Holdenville and then to Tulsa to meet her cousins for the first time, she was sleeping in it then because I traveled with it. That was November 14th. She was 2 months old then. But either way, she has slept every single night in her bouncy seat in her crib in her room. She started sleeping through the night in the bouncy seat on December 14th at 3 months old. She got a cough right before Christmas and her pediatrician said to make sure she was sleeping upright while she had the cough, like maybe in a bouncy seat. See? I was really just a step ahead.

Not really.

I was just doing what worked. She slept well in the bouncy seat so we left her there. It worked. I really have only one thing I don't want to do with her as far as sleeping is concerned and that is have her in our bed. And she wasn't. She was in her bed. Just in a bouncy seat in there.

But not anymore.

As of last night, she is sleeping happily in her crib! Since she has started to roll over so easily, she had gotten a bit agitated in the bouncy seat, wriggling around and trying to turn over. So, since I have a long weekend because of President's Day, I got up the nerve to try putting her in her crib with no bouncy seat. Since she is sleeping through the night, I really didn't want to do anything to mess that up. But it didn't mess anything up! I put her in the crib on her back and she immediately rolled to her belly and fell asleep.

Success!

This picture is from tonight. Tonight she is snoozing away on her side. Which, by the way, I like much better than her being on her belly...that made me very nervous last night. I clicked on the monitor probably 100 times to make sure she was still breathing. Even though she can hold her head up so well and roll over, she's never really slept on her tummy. Ugh, scared me! I guess I better get used to it though because it seems to be her preference. I put her in her crib tonight with her head facing away from the camera, but she turned herself all the way around until her head was at the other end of the crib. I very much like this view.

This, my friends, is the best show on tv tonight!!

Holding on

As Callie learns to hold on to more and more things,

I find myself wanting to hold on to this time. 

Grab it tight.

I want to capture it all.

Every second.

And never let it go.

5 Months Old

Callie is 5 months old today!

This picture says it all...

 ...because she is so into things now!

She is very observant and pays attention to everything around her.

She's a smiling, giggling (every now and then)...

 ...happy little thing.

She loves her feet...

...so very much.

-Callie weighs about 16 pounds now.

-She can roll from back to front with ease now. In fact, she does it easier than she goes from front to back now. She just started going from back to front really well. She loves to do it and if I put her on her back, she rolls over very quickly to her belly. She used to hate being on her belly so much that I was thinking she might not ever crawl! But now she is spending more time on her belly and she's beginning to scoot herself around a bit.

-She has very strong legs. If I sit her on my leg with her feet flat on the ground and let her hold my fingers, she can stand herself up.

-She sat up today on her own when I picked her up from daycare! She was sitting up, leaning against me and she started playing with *big Callie's purse. She leaned onto the purse and I moved away from her and she sat up all on her own! We are getting so close to her sitting up with no support at all!

     *there is another Callie at daycare. Our Callie is "baby Callie" to all the kids and I refer to the other Callie as big Callie. She is 4 and she loooves baby Callie!

-We haven't started her on rice cereal or food yet. I don't have any good reason for that really. I feel like she has no tummy issues with breastmilk and she is quite content with it, doesn't seem like it isn't enough for her. So, I don't feel like making any changes yet. My plan is to start her on it at 6 months.

-She sleeps from 8:30pm to anywhere from 6-7am.

-She eats 5-6 ounces every 3 hours during the day.

-She still takes at least 3 naps a day, usually 4.

-She thinks the dogs are just about the coolest thing EVER! If they walk into the room, she lights up...all smiles and squeals. She spends a lot of time watching them. She reaches out for them now and likes to pat them.

She is seriously getting more and more fun every.single.day. So, I'll ask again, can I please freeze time??

Sleeping beauty

Oh man, I love this little girl so much. So much it hurts a little.

Precious.

Awwww.

SNOW DAYS!

During the great SNOWmaggedon of 2011, we were home from school for FOUR fabulous days! That meant a lot of time for picture taking and snuggles with our sweet girl. I really enjoyed this time at home again with her.

I put together her excersaucer. It was such hard work to put together! I think I needed to be a rocket scientist to understand some of those directions, but I got it done finally. Courtney was the overseer of the project. haha

But it was well worth it because she loves it!!

 checking herself out in the mirror (she LOVES to look at herself in the mirror!)

The dogs enjoyed the snow, kind of. They were troopers anyway and would go out in it to potty without any compaints. I'm thankful for that!

We finally ventured out on Friday to go turkey bowling with some friends. What is turkey bowling?? Glad you asked. You get ten 2-liter bottles as pins, a frozen turkey as a bowling ball, an icey road as the lane, some willing friends and voila! Turkey bowling! It was so much fun! Good times had by all.

Callie and I got all decked out for the cold.  

Wish I had better pictures of the one time she will probably get to wear this adorable, fleece-lined snowsuit that we borrowed from my dear friend Emily but unfortunately these pics snapped on an almost dead cell phone were it. My camera died. My cell phone died. Courtney's cell phone was on it's last leg so I was happy to even get these. *sigh* By the way, dontcha love my Green Bay scarf?? Knitted by my talented sister. Thanks Harrison! :)

Oh and my baby loves to sit up now and wishes she could do it all by herself. She is getting close!! She actually did for a few seconds the other day before toppling forward. If she is sitting with us, she wants to be straight up, not leaning back at all.

She was checking out the dogs in this shot. Another fascination of hers for now. :)

Well, I'm off to enjoy looking at the snow. It'll be all melted soon and back to normal.