Calliope
Today, we were sitting in the kitchen and were playing on our computers with Calliope in her mobile saucer device. At some point, we both turned to catch her opening one of the drawers (thankfully, not the one with knives in it) and reaching in… her curiosity is starting to truly blossom and boy are we excited and afraid all at the same time!
So I will just preface this with the following disclamer: I think I will be saying this a lot over the next several years.
So Calliope did the coolest thing this evening when I got home. She had been with Mikey all day, and he was feeding her while sitting on the couch when I came in from work. I came in and stood next to them and said hi to both of them. Calliope stopped sucking on the bottle and just looked at me and smiled. The really crazy thing is that she didn’t go back to the bottle, she just watched me even though the nipple was right there in her mouth. She did that again a few minutes later after I had left the room. She definitely recognized me and it was amazing.
Mikey, Calliope, & I went our of first vacation this week down to Palm Spring (technically Ranco Mirage). We spent a week at one of our time share’s sister resorts, The Westin Mission Hills. Jenn, Eddie and his niece Christina joined us for most of the time there and we had so much fun.
Calliope had her first time in the pool and loved every minute, except the getting out part. I think we need to get her signed up for swimming lessons very early on. She really loved being in the heat and slept so well poolside.
We played a lot of Carcassonne which is one of our favorite games. I think Jenn, Eddie and Christina all got hooked. We even resurrected Canasta after Eddie and Christina left.
We leave tomorrow for a 10 hour drive home (allowing for stops). Calliope did great on the way down and hopefully will be just as much a trooper on the way home.
You should have seen all the stuff we brought (especially me for all the kitchen stuff). We did end up using most of what we brought, except for maybe the pool toys. We leave tomorrow and I’ll be spending the morning packing up the car again.
Calliope had her one week check up this morning and is doing great. She gained 5 oz of weight and everything is looking great. We asked about two small bumps on her bumm which turned out to just be some small diaper rash. To which the doctor commented with a smile: “I judge parents by what they notice as diaper rash.” Guess we are doing OK. 🙂
