Callia loves Mario

Today Callia and I were at the computer and she was playing Mario 64. After playing for a bit, I noticed that she was just sitting there not touching the controller, and just staring at the screen. When I asked what she was doing, she replied "I don't want to wake Mario up. He's sleeping." It's funny how different kids see the world.

Chick-fil-A Fun!

Thaddeus is really getting around now, and he and Callia are having a ball testing out his skills on the Chick-fil-A playground! We love Chick-fil-A because the employees are always cheerful, they play Christian music, and they keep their playground fairly clean. Thaddeus loves it because we let him crawl around. :)

In these first two pictures you can see Thaddeus pulling up, the third one is Callia with stick-on earrings all over her face, and the last two show how happy Thad is to be crawling.

Gettin' Around

Thaddeus is pulling up now. He pulled up for the first time a little less than two weeks ago when he crawled over to me (which was a first for crawling to a destination and I was thinking "I should blog that"), and pulled up on the couch. The next day he did it in his crib. Now he is doing it all over the place, and he was standing at the edge of my chair just a moment ago when I decided I'd finally just DO IT and blog about it. :)

I'm not sure how to say when he first started crawling. I think it was just three or four weeks ago that he first crawled a little but as I said it was a little under two weeks ago that he went anywhere with a destination.

I'm sure he could have done any of it much sooner but he's a pretty laid back little guy and would rather just wait to move until his mama carries him somewhere. Until now.

Second tooth

Thad cut his second tooth today! It was the top one on the left side, directly above his first tooth. Usually babies cut their second bottom tooth before cutting their first top tooth, but Thad is not worried about being like everyone else. :)

I probably wouldn't have even noticed it, but the doctor was checking to see if that may be part of the reason why he isn't sleeping. And there it was! A little hard line in his gums.

Thad crawled for the first time today. He and I were at Maegen's house, Nathan and Callia were elsewhere (he was whitewater rafting and she was at mom's house). He didn't quite get up on all fours, but used his two arms and one leg and the other one stayed folded up under him as he slid across the floor propelled mainly by his hands. Pretty cute. At another time he used his other leg. I think he decided he was tired of trying to get up onto both of those chubby little knees!

Can I Have That, Bro?

Thaddeus, Nathan and I have been a little sick for almost a week now and have had a lot of congestion and a little bit of a sore throat. Fortunately Callia has escaped it so far, but I fear not for much longer! This morning when I was putting the two of them in the car to take Callia to preschool, Callia was already in her seat, waiting to be buckled, I finished buckling Thad and looked down in my bags for something. When I looked up I saw her pick a booger out of his nose, and as I began to say "Don't pick...", her finger shot into her mouth! So yes, I did switch what I was going to say to "Don't eat your brother's boogers"!

Later, when I told Nathan about it he of course laughed and said that when he had talked to her before about eating her own boogers she said "I just like the way they taste". To reveal something embarrassing about myself as a child around preschool age, I remember thinking that, too! I can't remember how old I was when I changed my mind, but I'm sure Callia won't always feel like that, either!

I don't think I would have ever even considered eating someone else's, though. Maybe this morning's incident says something about how close she feels to her brother. Hopefully its that and not an indicator of how much discretion she is going to end up with!

Feeling Better

Callia is feeling much better. She woke up Friday morning feeling better, and did not throw up. She was talking up a storm like her usual self, which was a good sign. At first she was ready to get out of the house and talked about all the places she wanted to go, but when she got up off the couch to get dressed and walked up to her room, she changed her mind. She said she was dizzy and her head hurt. She didn't even want to go later on when she had the opportunity to go to lunch with MeMaw, which she hasn't been able to do in a couple of weeks. Mom did come here to eat, though, and while she was here Callia went up to go to the bathroom and felt nauseated while she was up there. Poor baby. :( That night I did take her out to go to Tropical Smoothie and she rode in the shopping cart while I picked her up some rice milk and other snacks at the grocery store. We were gone about an hour, and Thad and Nathan stayed home. It was very nice to get out of the house with her, and see her appreciating it. She is sipping rice milk even now. Not being able to drink milk or eat cheese because of her sensitive stomach has made her crave it, and she has been enjoying the rice milk a lot. She is still a little weak but I think totally over the sickness.

This afternoon she goes in to the doctor for her preschool checkup and most likely some vaccinations. The appointment was originally for last Tuesday but she was too sick to go.

I think I will be asking the doctor if we can get another prescription for Thad's reflux medication (Zantac). He had run out and hasn't had it for about a month now. He hadn't been throwing up (except baby food while he was sick), but now he is not sleeping unless he is with me, which is exactly what was happening when he was hurting from the reflux, and it seems like he is totally over being sick. This morning he spit up breast milk just like he used to do. Hopefully he will start sleeping better again. The only way Thad will sleep at all is in bed with us, believe me, I've spent a lot of time trying to lay him down in his bed. Nathan and I have been sleeping very poorly and last night he slept on the couch because of how crowded the bed has been. I talked to him on the phone this morning and he said it was the best he has slept in a long time and he feels great! I feel like I hardly slept at all, even though it wasn't so crowded without Nathan. I missed Nathan and Thad kept waking up fussing over and over all night.

It makes me think of how hard it would be to have a baby who was constantly plagued with major health problems. Thad has had a couple of issues but they are minor. I have heard of things that made babies constantly cry in pain. Wouldn't that be heartbreaking?