Climber

Cali is a climber.

I was trying to get things ready so I could take a shower Sunday morning. So I put Cali in her crib so she would be safe while I moved furniture around. You see Cali learned how to free herself from her baby seat during my last shower so I had to bring the bigger swing upstairs. While I was moving the furniture and the swing around I thought how quiet Cali was being and how good of her to be playing nicely in her crib. I went in to check on her and found...



She was on her knees and trying to pull up. When most moms would grab the baby, I grabbed my phone to take a picture.
Needless to say, Nick lowered her crib tonight.

Weekend

As Cali gets older it is great to be able to do things that we used to do BC (before Cali).

This weekend was a good example. Friday night all 3 of us went out to dinner at Olive Garden. Cali sat in the high chair, ate her food, and played with her toys. After dinner we walked around Barnes and Nobles and Target! She did great and even got some new toys. (It is dangerous to take Nick into the kid toy section!)

Saturday morning we all went out for breakfast at one of our favorite breakfast "greasy spoon" restaurants. We ate here a LOT when I was pregnant. It was nice to be back. Then we spent the day helping Nick get ready for Sunday.

These may seem like little things, but it is nice to not feel tied to the house because you don't know what the baby will do or how long you have before she needs to eat/sleep/poop/scream.

7 Months Old

It is hard to believe our little girl is 7 months old! Yesterday was the official big day but it was a long, hard day so the blog update had to wait.

New tricks now that Cali is 7 months old:
- She can sleep all night long!! (8pm-7am)
- She can stay awake during the day for 4.5 hours without taking a nap
- She can sleep on her belly
- She can sit up like a champ!
- She can get places by rolling there (She discovered rolling is more fun than trying to crawl. We are working on it)
- EVERYTHING goes in her mouth
- She is eating 3 solid food meals a day plus nursing
- Some of her favorite foods so far are rice cereal, sweet potatoes and carrots
- Separation anxiety has set in - She screams if I leave the room!

Trying to get her to sit still for her 7 month photo shoot was difficult. Here is what I got!

Shopping Cart

Since the high chair at the restaurant went so well we decided to try a shopping cart tonight.



We used the same cover and went to Wal-Mart. She did great! I just clipped a toy to the cover and she was good to go for the hour we spent shopping. Wal-Mart trips won't be so hard now!

Another first

Friday night we meet Nick's family at Macaroni Grill for dinner. We decided to avoid one of us having to hold her the whole time and tried a high chair. We have a cool chair cover so we put it in the car. I also brought some food for Cali to eat at the table.

It turned out to be a success! She liked the high chair and played happily. We did have to put a sweatshirt in the chair behind her so she wouldn't move around too much. She ate well and kept us busy as she threw her toys on the floor.

11 Hours!!!

That's right Cali slept for 11 hours last night!!!
I put her down at 8pm and she got up at 7am ( had to wake her for work)! We didn't have to go in once!
We don't even know what to do with ourselves!

Escape

It seems like every Monday Cali does something new. One week is was rolling back and forth, another it was sitting up, and today it was this...



She is trying to pull herself up and OUT of the pack n play. The picture is fuzzy because I wanted to get the picture before she was successful in her climbing. Luckily gravity was on my side and she fell back into the pack n play with a huge grin on her face. She was so proud of her accomplishment.

We are in trouble!