3-Day Weekends Here We Come

Maybe the trick to keeping up with this blog thing is to make it short and sweet :o) Sorry, I know it has been a while for you followers.

Last month, most of us state workers started to get the first and third Fridays off of each month as furlough (no work no pay) to help with our budget crises. I was also able to keep my alternate work schedule of working 9-hour days and every other Friday off. So, with furlough and my work schedule, I'm now getting EVERY Friday off till June of 2010 when the furlough is scheduled to be eliminated. The bad news is two days less pay a month but the good news is I get to spend more time with Katie and Yogi’s exempt from the cuts.

Speaking of the little lady, she’s doing great! She took her 6-month shots last, last Friday and did quite well with the exception of a low fever the days following. We were on high alert just in case. She’s also sleeping very well. She usually wakes once around 2am-ish but the last two nights, she has slept from 8pm to 6am. We thought these nights would never come!!!

We’ve also been trying to get her into solid foods such as rice cereal and grind up vegetables. Unfortunately, her little digestive system needs training and greasing to run smoothly; thus, we’ve been having some pooping challenges as of late. Per docs and nurses, we've been giving her juices and liquids which have been smoothing out those inner engines. You'll never be happy to see poop until you have a child!

Katie’s been really tentative to her surroundings and is starting to recognize each and every one of us. Yogi was playing with her on the playmate Saturday morning when she accidentally fell back and bumped her head. She was more startled than anything. We were both there for her but she had both arms open only to her Daddy. That’s the first time, she showed preference for either of us! She's also really good at following us around the house with her eyes and cries when there’s no one around. Once she gets a hold of us, she’ll do the climbing motion up our arms. When she doesn’t want the bottle, she knows to turn away or spits it back in our faces. It’s amazing how fast she’s learning how to communicate non-verbally.

Her cousin Tyrus has a little walker toy which she’s starting to love. We had her stand up behind the toy, hold the handle and push it forward with us holding her waist for balance. She's able to stand on her own holding onto the handle and will walk faster (assisted) than we can follow. She’s not crawling yet but her new trick when teased to do so is to go from sitting on her butt to all fours and on her belly. It’s the cutest little thing. I tell ya, her restlessness to keep moving is starting to get a bit scary.