6 months

Recent stats:

Weight: 16 lb 7 oz (70th%)
Height: 26.25 inches (50th%)
Head circumference: still 70th%

At her checkup she got 3 shots and this time she handled them like a champ. No screaming; a few cries but was over it within minutes.

She's rapidly outgrowing her 3-6 month clothing and her size 2 diapers. I don't know why the jump to the next size clothing is hitting me harder, but seeing little 9s on the inside of the onesies makes me realize just how quickly time is passing. Even faster with the second kid!

Potty successes

We'll be going to the Academy of Sciences this weekend, as Cameron's reward for using the potty and successfully getting 10 stickers!

I made him a potty chart and added one of his favorite characters, Lightening McQueen, at the bottom. That, coupled with the motivational Thomas stickers I picked up on a whim at Old Navy last Christmas, gave me hope that he'd be excited to fill up the chart and get his special reward of going somewhere fun, his pick.

We still have to prompt him to visit the potty, but hopefully soon he'll start listening to his body and telling us when it's time to go. Hopefully!

Teething already?!

Yep, at not even 6 months, Norah has her bottom two front teeth coming in. I didn't expect it so soon, but there they are. I tried to get a picture, but she didn't cooperate.

We tried a little bit of rice cereal, but she wasn't really a fan.

Testing the waters

Norah's 6-month checkup is approaching, and I was very curious to find out if she would share her brother's allergy to dairy. I wanted to be able to discuss options at the checkup if in fact she did react similarly, so this weekend we gave her some formula.

NO hives, NO redness, NO reaction! I'm elated!!!

**happy dance**

Housing woes, part III

The contractors are finally done, and after a few "open houses," we now have new renters!

We got the lease signed, the check for August rent plus security deposit, and turned over the keys.

I'm so relieved! Hopefully this is the end of the housing woes for quite some time!

5 months

Preschool bound

Cameron attended preschool for the first time today. I cried a little bit after dropping him off, but it was a good cry. It makes my heart happy that he didn't cry at all and was comfortable enough to let us go with a goodbye and a promise to see him later. My big boy!

Housing woes, part II

So the June 1 date has come and gone. The contractors still aren't quite done, and our renter isn't in yet. But that's okay; she said she can wait until July, as her current lease runs out at the end of June.

Or so we thought. I decided to call her today to check in and assure her that everything would in fact be ready by July 1. And I learned that she had gotten scared that things wouldn't in fact be done on time, and she'd gone and found another place. She was sorry she hadn't returned my calls before, and she'd been meaning to call me, really. Uh huh.

Crap. Back to square one.

4 months

Recent stats:

Weight: 13 lb 14 oz (70th%)
Height: 24.5 inches (50th%)
Head circumference: don't remember measurement, but remains 70th%

Did you notice? My baby has a mohawk. :)

Pumping gas

It's never too early to teach your kid how to pump his own gas for the car, right?

3 months

Happy Mother's Day!

We headed out to meet with the extended family today. It's so wonderful to see my kids (plural!? still kinda amazes me) interacting with all the relatives. 

I love my family, both little and big. I'm a lucky girl!

Smiles and frowns

She's all smiles these days...

unless Sophie is around.

I thought all babies loved Sophie!?

Her own crib

This past weekend we moved the crib out of Cameron's room and into Norah's room now that Cairo no longer needs the room for his recovery. (He is up and about, had the pins removed last week on April 10th...seems to be doing well though he does still limp around. Cameron still insists that he has a cast, but it's really just his shaved area where the fur hasn't grown back completely.)

So far we've had 3 successful naps in the crib! I rock her a bit (swaddled) and put her down drowsy; she's doing remarkably well at putting herself to sleep, which I'm grateful for.

Nighttime sleep is going well too. She will now consistently give us a 6-hour stretch at the beginning of the night (usually starts between 8-9pm), and then it's back to 3-4 hours. Last night we even got 8 hours out of her thanks to a few replacements of the pacifier in the mouth!

2 months

Housing woes

We moved to the Sausalito house in late January, and here we are in April just getting the house ready to rent out as of May 1. I called my insurance company to talk about what I need to do in order to rent out the house, and they say I need to convert from a homeowner's policy to a rental dwelling policy. Okay, great, send me a quote. That was two days ago, on April 5th.

Yesterday, on April 6th, all hell breaks loose at the house. I got a call from my mom saying "your smoke detector is going off, water is spewing from the bathroom wall, and your ceiling has collapsed!" Holy smokes! I race over there and this is just a small portion of the damage I see:

The leak in the upstairs bathroom has saturated the ceiling in the dining area below it. The dry wall collapsed, the insulation was a soggy mess, and the paint peeled down in one big sheet (there on the left). Oy, what a headache! We had called a plumber out to disconnect the drain and pipes leading to the tub in order to have it refinished, and sometime after the refinishing occurred a leak started. Since we don't live there now, it went unnoticed.

The bummer of the situation regarding insurance is that if I had accepted the quote to make the policy a rental dwelling before this incident, we would be able to get some assistance for lost rent, but since it was still a homeowner's policy, all they would do would be to give us money for a hotel, which we don't need. Bah.

I really hope the contractors can push all the paperwork through in order to get the repairs done in May; I would really love to get our renter in there June 1! Wait and see...