This weekend

We had a fun weekend. On Saturday, Karis and I had our baby group. It was fun. A new baby joined the group. Now there is a baby who was born on 8/12, 8/13, and 8/14. We were all in the hospital at the same time, and didn't even know it.

After playgroup we took a ride to Bangor. We shopped the clearance racks, and we all got a few new shirts. At LL Bean we found Karis' snowsuit for next year for $7.50. After that we went to Olive Garden for dinner. Karis charmed everyone sitting around us. When we got home though, Karis didn't think it was time to sleep. She was up until almost 11.


On Sunday we spent most of the day at home. We watched Karis try to move around the floor. She can now get up on all fours. She is rolling all around too. Duncan isn't too fond of the new development. He really wants nothing to do with her. She has taken to grabbing fistfuls of Skqueakers' fur, and he let's her. She so wants to do this to Duncan too, but he definately won't let her.

In the afternoon we took Karis to her first concert. Our friend, Jane, sings in a choir, and we went to Camden to listen to her choir. The concert was at St. Thomas Episcople church. What a beautiful church. I thought we would be lucky to get through the first couple songs, but Karis loved the singing. She snuggled into my chest, and just listened to the music. The woman next to me said that Karis was going to be a musician. At the end of the concert another woman came up to us and told us that Karis was the most well behaved baby in the United States. I had no idea where the woman had been sitting, but she said that she was sure that Karis wouldn't make it through the concert. It was lucky because they were recording the concert.

Our day wasn't done though. We stopped into the reception after the concert for a few minutes, and then headed over the grocery store. Karis now sits in the cart almost on her own. She kept losing her shoes and socks though.

Cereal and Tubby Time

This past week was Karis' introduction to cereal. We had been trying to decide when to start the cereal. Since Karis will be five months old on Tuesday we decided that we would make out first attempt. We have been giving her about two teaspoons of rice mixed in with two ounces of breastmilk. She has been doing a really good job with it. We try to give it to her right after a meal. We tried to give her some cereal before nursing her, but that did NOT go over well.

We are working on getting her to fall asleep in her cradle. We are really trying to stick to a bedtime routine of nurse, bath, cereal, rocking/book, and then bed.

Karis also got her own tubby this week. Up until now she has been getting her bath in the kitchen sink.

Earlier this week we thought Karis might be gettin a tooth, but no sign yet. She has created a new way of using her pacifier.

Visiting family

On 12/26 after I finished work we drove to Pennsylvania. The ride down went really well. Duncan, Squeakers and Karis were all good in the car. We listened to my CD collection of Christmas short stories by David Sedaris. I love the Santa Land Diaries. We got into PA around 11. John and Abby were still up, and visited with Karis for a few minutes before we all went to bed. BJ, Karis, and I were up and back in the car by 4:30 to get to the airport. Unfortunately, our flight had been cancelled, which was very surprising to us. Apparently there had been fog in Chicago the night before, and our plane never came in the night before. Disappointed was an understatement because my mom had planned a party later that afternoon. We were able to get on a flight out of Newark, and decided to go back to John and Abby's for the morning. We were able to catch a couple more hours of sleep. John and Abby were surprised to see us in the morning! The positive thing about the delay was spending time with our neice and nephews. We got to watch them open the presents we got for them.


We finally got to Chicago Saturday night. The flight was really rough. On the decent the flight attendants didn't even check our trays and seats. I had to hold Karis tightly. She was such a good girl for the flight. My parents had to call everyone and reschedule the party for Sunday. Almost everyone was able to make the change. It was really good to see everyone and show off Karis. We spent most of the visit just hanging out at the house. BJ got a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a private tour of Fermi Lab. He had a wonderful time during his tour. I had a really good time, and was sad to leave.


We had a better flight back to PA. There was a lot of turbulance as we landed. Once again, Karis was a great traveler. We ended up going out to dinner with John, Abby, Bryan, Nicole, and Hayden. After dinner BJ and I took Karis to visit Bill, Tracey and Cheyanne. We had a nice visit, and they gave us a bunch of pictures of BJ as a baby. Its funny Karis looks like him in several pictures, but when we were looking at my babybook when we were in Illinois she also looked like me in a lot of my pictures. I guess she just looks like herself.