Chirp!

I don't want to be a deduction!Our little Chick!

Meal time fun!

6 months old!

Big Girl!

It's my 1/2 B-day!

Sitting up in the recliner

Playing on her mat

I can't believe my baby girl is 6 months old today. Where does the time go?? Calia has been fighting another cold/teething, otherwise she has ben wonderful. She now drinks from a sippy cup (water) with dinner. Along with peas and carots, her menu now includes squash and sweet potatoes. She remains not a huge fan of cereal (rice or oatmeal) and they still leave a rash on her chin. After her pictures today, I'm just going to start giving the cereal to her more frequently so she can try to get used to it. She is 75% sitting up alone, pulling herself to sit whenever given the chance. Grabbing and any and everything in her path of destruction! Our little princess is quite the fireball (a bit of mommy perhaps?) She brought home her first piece of artwork from daycare last week, a finger painting. It is proudly posted on the fridge.

The previous photo dump were all pictures from our recent trip to Stowe, VT last Wed-Sat for a medical conference. We stayed at the Stoweflake http://www.stoweflake.com. Calia slept in one of the queen beds, Kevin in the other, and I jumped between them both. We had a fireplace in our room, which Calia loved to watch. She hated the pool, loved going for walks in her pack, and was perfect everytime we went out to eat. She did get sick, fever 102-103 that would not come down and we end up in the local ER... Note to anyone traveling to Stowe, if anyone gets sick and needs an ER go to Fletcher Allen in Burlington, rather than Copley in Morrisville...what a nightmare. After 4 hours and the local Oxycontin seeking trash who dropped the "f" word like it was normal and got into a fist fight with her sig other in the lobby (poor Calia her little eyes were like saucers!) The ER doc asked me to lavage Calia's ears and currette the wax out (his job). What a waste, I ended up treating my own child, which I try not to do and is the reason we went to the ER in the first place. Oh well.

Photo Dump

MacWorth Island

Since it was 50 degrees today, we decided to take a family walk out around MacWorth Island. Calia in the Kelty pack on Kevin and Coda on the gentle leader with me. She could have been off leash, but we thought the frigid ocean might be too tempting. It was a beautiful day, nice to be outside in January and not be freezing to death!

This week's pics

Sucking on Daddy's nose

Sitting on Mommy's lap
Carrots...yum

Carrots=Success

So, we finished our peas trial on Tuesday night by giving peas with some cereal. Wednesday night we took off to let Calia "cleanse her palate." Last night, we introduced carrots. Once Kevin and I got over the horrible smell, Kev fed her and she ate with gusto again. And this was after finishing a big meal from mommy! It's funny, Calia is such a watcher...she just takes everything in. When I opened the jar and smelled the carrots, she was watching my reaction. So, I smiled and said yummy! Guess she bought it. Yesterday, we also had a late lunch with Amy and Ben Farb (baby Ben will be 3 weeks on Saturday). While Calia sat on my lap grabbing at everything in sight, Ben slept the whole time...ahh the good ol' days!

More pictures

Twins?

Farming for toes

Sitting pretty (kind of)

What do you mean daddy doesn't like peas?

Because I love them!

Peas and no internet at home

On Saturday, Calia started eating solids. Her first venue was peas and she loves them (now if only Kevin would try peas). She has had them for the last 3 nights and success! And now she has these amazingly nasty poops, which she thinks are hysterical. I have some great pictures, but our internet access at home is on the fritz. I'll download them once Time Warner comes to fix the problem or Kevin figures out a solution. One more night of peas tonight, mixed with a little cereal for good measure, then it's on to carrots! Good Times.

A growing girl

Another week has flown by and Calia continues to change and amaze us! She has been fighting an cold for awhile, so I took her in to be seen at Kevin's request. We decided to treat her with some Amoxicillin for a sinusitis (just based on the length of sickness beign 2 1/2 weeks). It hasn't made too much of a difference, probably becuase she's just viral, but it's fun to watch her try to gargle the medicine instead of swallowing it! The blowing of raspberries has gotten out of control, it's her favorite thing to do food or no food in the mouth. Calia is obsessed with glass. She licked the outside of my water glass, and found her way to the rim, where she continued to lick and took a couple sips. And wine glasses, forget about it, she tracks them with her eyes and screams if you take the glass out of site, same with beer botles... We may have a future wild child on our hands. Eating is progressing slowly, we are up to 5-6 bites before she starts to blow raspberries and laugh. We are going to start veggies this week, maybe that will help keep her attention. Oh, and fully dressed (sweater, jeans, t-shirt and diaper) at the sick visit she was 15 lbs, but without any clothes at my grandmothers last weekend she was 14.5 lbs.

Long time, no blog

With Great, Great Aunt Ruthella

Who needs toys when you've got toes?
With Great Gram

We just got back from a long weekend "downeast" visiting Calia's Great Gram and Great Grampa Jack. She loved having new people to show off for. Some of her newest tricks are blowing kisses, blowing raspberries (especially fun with a mouth full of food), sucking on her toes, playing peek-a-boo (she's mastered this one, she will cover her face and wait for you to ask "where's Calia?" before pulling the blanket down to reveal herself), giggling at anything(especially herself, with mommy and daddy running a close second), scooting around the room on her back, and sitting alone for up to 30 seconds at a time. She is still not too interested in rolling from back to front, too busy moving around the room on her back! Tonight when I put her down to bed, she was still awake and grabbing at her mobile, guess it's time to lower the crib mattress. We also took Calia to meet her great, great aunt Ruthella. Calia made quite an impression, and she got to see a cat for the first time. She had this look on her face watching the cats walk around. I think she was thinking "kind of like Coda, but smaller, and faster, and fluffier". It was a wonderful weekend. I hadn't ventured "downeast" since 1994. Unfortunately, it was icy and rainy all weekend, so Kevin didn't take the 4-wheeler out. I'm sure we'll be up again soon, so Kevin can play!

Allergy Free!!

All of Calia's bloodwork has come back and she is allergy free. She was checked for almost all foods, including milk, wheat, rice, seafood and all nuts, dog and cat (good news for Coda), and all molds/dust. So, her episodes of vomiting after eating were nothing, unless she's got an eating disorder? And that horrible rash on her chin, guess it's just from the drool from teething. Good news all around! She ate her rice cereal last night with gusto...guess it's time to start adding fruits and veggies. Now, if only those teeth would make an appearance!

Those Damn Moose

Ok, so the story of the moose is long, but apparently, my mother thought it would be fun to take pictures of my sweet girl with the hideous creations. This will take years of therapy for Calia to get over. Notice how startled she is!

Entertaining

Yiayia's are fun!

Teething, food allergies, and more

Well, It appears Calia may have food allergies. I am taking her for testing today, UGH!
She is full on teething, poor thing has sores on both hands from sucking/chewing on them. She's a drooly mess. Otherwise, she's as cute as ever, talking up a storm. More later...

Pictures

Hangin' with Abby in the Bumbo Seats

3 Cousins
My futures so bright, I gotta wear shades
What a saucy little thing

Happy Holidays

We returned home to Maine from Pennsylvania last night. We had a great first Christmas with sweet Calia. She has perfected her laugh, which has many facets. Her favorite thing to laugh at is her reflection, with mommy's "boogity-boo" a close second. She has also started to make motions toward crawling (heaven forbid). On Christmas Day, while laying on the playmat, she started bringing her knees up under her and pushing forward. She moved 6 inches, then did it again. If only she knew to lift her head up at the same time, she'd have been off. Kevin and I just looked at each other and thought "we're screwed!" She did great in the car again, except on the way home we got stuck in traffic from the Newburgh Bridge to Danbury, and Calia kept crying and letting out whimpers. Too cute. The Tobin's got her a Bumbo seat for Christmas and man was that a hit! She loves the thing. When I get home and download pictures tonight, I'll put some on. If anyone has a baby, that wants to sit up and see everything, but can't do it alone yet, this seat is a Godsend! Calia was especially cute with her little cousins Abigail and Declan, who are almost caught up to Calia in weight, but not quite in length. She would smile at them, especially when they would sit next to each other in their Bumbo seats. Her big cousin Jeremy even carried Calia around the house a couple times! It was a great trip, but we are glad to be home in our own beds. We still have Christmas to do with my mom and Ben, Lea, Lance, Aisha and Angelea (this Saturday), then find room for all Miss Calia's bounty of gifts!