Laughing in the New Year

Mabel had her best bout of laughing yet and we ran for the camera in time. She could not get enough of the dogs fetching toys down the hallway.



Some laughs and a movie earlier have us in great spirits for the New Year. Hope everyone else is as well.

Home

We're back home with a one day delay that in retrospect was for the best.

While I was waiting in line to be told our connection home would be missed on our original travel day, Mabel decided it was time to develop full blown red-eye in both eyes. That coupled with her being born with nasolacrimal duct obstruction (blocked tear ducts) lead to yellow yuck streaming out of her swollen eyes. So new tickets in hand we went to the ER that Grandpa Sigafoos works at and got some eye drops. Fortunately I'd spent 6 months as an eye-drop dispenser at an ophthalmologist's in a previous life, where the elderly of Cleveland helped me perfect my technique. Mabel is now several days into drops and doing better, but still has some really gnarly yellow pus that can glue things shut post-nap. Fun, but improving.

Flights were good and Amazon Fresh had food waiting for us.

Anyhoo - happy holidays. If you want to see us on another holiday, we'll be in Seattle on on a beach.

Minneapolis - screw your weather!

After a nice 2 week tour in OH, shopping M around, we were set to get back home to the pups. As there was some airline security fiasco yesterday, we got to the airport today nice'n'early. And then our flight started the slow decline into 'delayed' territiory until 4 hours later our connection in Minneapolis was broken. Luckily the dogsitter can cover us an extra night and we'll try again tomorrow, this time through Cincinnati, where they're expecting snow showers.



Ho ho ho.

Tooth!

Driving to the airport, suspicions are now confirmed - Mabel's first tooth has arrived! Not quite sure what this'll mean for mom and nursing, but mark up another milestone.

Holiay travels

Neglected but not forgotten, we'll be back and posting regularly again in a week. We did upload some pics for December, but will have more of those too.

Happy holidays.

Birth Class Reunion

Yesterday M and I went to a reunion of our birth class. It was really nice to see all the babies outside of bellies. Several of the babies we knew already because they go to another mom group with us, but it was fun to meet the rest.

We did a big group picture of all the babies. Brett wasn't there and I had to hold M, so I didn't get to take any pictures myself but one girl sent out this pic. I'll post others as they come in.

4 month checkup

We just got home from our 4 month doctor visit. M weighs 15 lb 9 oz and is 25 inches long. She is in the 90th percentile for head size (not a surprise with our big melons) and weight and 75th for height. She is growing and healthy! She got one shot and one oral vaccine.

The best part of the appointment was that we got to talk about when we can start M on solid foods. She LOVES to watch us eat and has for a while, so we know she'll be into real food. 3 weeks before she turns 6 months we get to start her on rice cereal to see how she does. We can even experiment with some veggies too! I am so so so excited to have a start date with food.

Other than that all is well with M. She still has her pesky cold which is sad, but there isn't much we can do but let it run its course.

3 months old (a couple weeks ago)

So, a little late on a post about Mabel being 3 months old. I'd like to think that our missing things won't become a trend, but I am not making any promises.



And this morning when I woke up and said 'good-morning' to Mabel, she immediately pooped and gave me a big smile. A good morning for us all.