Suri

What, you might ask, could we possibly have in common with these people?

We both dress our daughters better than ourselves.



Sounds familiar.



I think Suri gets more attention than her mother.



Sounds familiar. :)

Wait a second, I think I've seen this top before.

Stocking Stuffers, Teethers & A New Series?

Hello blog world! We're back. Did you miss us???

How could you not miss seeing this cute face?



My perfect little angel did not pull out all of the diaper wipes and scatter them all over the floor.

And her onesie definitely is not hanging out of her clothes.

Of course she doesn't have a bump on her forehead (from falling on a toy).

I bet her diaper doesn't need to be changed, either!

Not my perfect little doll!

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In case you haven't heard what Callie's first word was, the following picture might give you a better idea. She says the word whenever she sees this:

"Hot." Not mom, not dad, but "hot." It's so cute. She says it all the time, in context! The first time she said it was with my mom... I was a little sad that I wasn't around to hear her first word, but am more happy that her grandma got to share that moment with her. I wonder if there's any connection that her first word has to do with coffee, when both of her grandmas are usually spotted with one of these cups! Of course she loves Starbucks, already!

Here are the following contexts when she's said her first word.

• She says "hot" when you hold up a coffee mug or Starbucks cup (and always wants to touch it...is that bad that we taught her to touch things that are "hot?"
• In the bath, when the water was warm, she says "hot."
• When you get something out of the microwave, she says "hot."
• I accidentally fed her some babyfood that was still hot, and she let me know it.
• At Ikea the other day, we walked by a huge display of coffee mugs, and she said "hot."
  

So smart, just like her dad! :)

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Among other news, she's found her favorite teether. I spent $20 on one of these because I heard about how great they were, and she prefers to chew on this. It's in her hand, and she likes to carry it around the house. (By the way, Beth, I know I still owe a bottle from when I borrowed yours. So sorry.)

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We recently celebrated Uncle Matt's birthday. Count the candles to see how old he is! Happy Birthday, Matt!

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I had originally planned to blog about this great idea I had. I made a "baby-friendly" coffee table centerpiece. What you may (or may not) see is that this is actually a plastic bowl, with plastic apples.

I thought it was a great idea, until I realized that I was picking this up a million times a day.

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One of my new favorite things is the Sharpie retractable pen. I love, love, love the way it writes, you have to try this. A great idea for a stocking stuffer!

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Oh, if you haven't heard, Kiley and Matt found out what they are having (boy or girl)! I won't give it away on my blog, but be sure to ask them! Callie is soooo excited to have her first cousin. We are going to help paint her nursery this weekend!

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One thing I've been considering is doing a series on blog design. I don't claim to be a web designer or anything fancy, but have somehow picked a few things up here and there about blog design. Is this something any of you would be interested in?!?!?

Announcements!

It's been awhile since I've blogged. And I'm honestly too tired tonight to write much (Callie's 5:30am morning wake-up calls are wearing on me), plus we've been super busy (with settling in, minor house projects, etc.) so this will be short. I think I just want to lay on the couch and either 1) read Breaking Dawn or 2) watch TV.

But I just wanted to announce a few things (three). First thing...

#1 CALLIE HAS SAID HER FIRST WORD! Yea!!! It happened last weekend. Can you guess what it was??? I'll give you a hint. It has three letters. So cute.

#2 CALLIE IS GETTING HER FIRST TOOTH! It's cutting through on the bottom, I think the right side (I just had to wrestle her down to tell which side it's on and she didn't fully cooperate). A few weeks ago, she was pretty fussy and I thought it was due to teething, but it was actually due to an ear infection (that turned into a ruptured eardrum, which is how we could tell what it was). Thankfully we're all healthy now. The tooth doesn't seem to bother her too much. Yet.

#3 CALLIE STARTED GIVING KISSES! It's so sweet and slobbery. She goes "mmmm-mah" with her mouth open on your face. We just love it.

I just re-read what I wrote, and realized that as her mom, these things are probably a lot more exciting to me that they are to everyone else. You know life has changed when the highlight of your day has to do with a tooth... :)

P.S. Today, I accidentally boiled my broccoli cheese soup and it curdled (I have such a sweet husband, he didn't even complain). I also think I may have forgot to put yeast in the breadmaker when I was making bread because it didn't really rise very much. And, on my way to the store today I realized I had sweet potato dried in my eyebrow (I made a big batch of sweet-potato-garbanzo-bean baby food in our trusty old magic bullet). Oops!