2 months

Callie is 2 months old today. The time feels like it has flown by. You bring so much joy to our lives. It feels like you were just born last week, but I can't imagine my life without you.

Master Bedroom

There are many things on my project list, but when we changed the sliding door in our master bedroom to a window, I jumped at the chance to paint the room and get a new bedspread. When we moved in to this house, we put the dog door in our room. That way we could lock him out of the rest of the house. He was only a puppy then and chewed up everything left out in our room. Including our bedspread, blankets, pillows, mattress cover, curtains, and several other things. With the dog door in there we weren't able to close the door b/c the cat used the dog door also, and with the baby coming we wanted to be able to close the bedroom door.So with the baby coming soon we decided to move the dog door to the kitchen and take out the broken sliding door in our room (who needs or wants 3 sliding doors in their small house). We replaced it with a window that we can leave open in the night. We also get that whole wall back to put furniture on. Instead of painting the room white again, I choose a bedspread and then picked a color to match. It ended up being the color Dark Storm Cloud, and it really does feel like a dark storm cloud. It is very relaxing and reminds me of the storms back in Kansas that we don't get here in Idaho.Loren didn't know that I had bought the paint and on Monday night I snuck away while he was holding Callie and painted the window wall. About an hour later he wondered where I was and came looking for me. He caught me just finishing up. He loved the color. So after it dried I moved the bed under the window. We really liked the bed on that wall with the wall being the only one painted. We couldn't decide if we only wanted that as an accent wall or to paint the whole room. After having some friendly advice and having issues with opening the window behind the bed, we decided to paint the whole room and move the bed back to the original wall. We love it. Now all I need to do is buy or make some window treatments and hang some pictures and we will be all done.

Now on to the Master Bath...

Happy Mother's Day

I got to celebrate my first Mother's Day this year and it was a wonderful day. It started out on Thursday when I was sent roses from Callie and Loren. Then last night when my sweet husband cooked me a wonderful steak dinner. Callie ended up sleeping a full 8 hours last night and then slept the whole 3 hours of church. Then Loren cooked me biscuits and gravy for lunch and then homemade Chinese food for dinner. Callie was in bed by 9:00pm. I even was able to take some pictures of my little bundle of joy. Happy Mother's day to the wonderful women in my life.

7 weeks

Callie is 7 weeks this week and has grown so much. Only a couple weeks ago, she learned what a pacifier was. Since we got her a new one that is a little longer she can keep it in her mouth, as long as she isn't pulling it out with her hands.

Her hands are another thing. She is learning to grip, hard. She often times grips on to my clothing while she is nursing, and today grabbed on to my hair and wouldn't let go. When we are changing her diaper, she enjoys reaching over to the wall and feeling the texture. She also likes to play with daddy's goatee while he is rocking her to sleep.

Callie is such a good baby. In the morning she will lay in her bed and talk to the monkeys on the wall for at least 30 min. She is getting better entertaining herself and looking at things. Today she spent about 15 min on the floor talking to her toys and/or the TV.

Little Cowgirl

We love the handmade cowgirl gear. Grandpa Turnbow made the baby chaps and Jake Smit (Loren's Uncle) made the rocking horse. I guess they are trying to get her to become a little Cowgirl. The name Callie Turnbow does sound like a barrel racer. I'm sure she will be riding horses as soon as she can sit upright.

Trying to get a smile!

Callie has been smiling for weeks, but getting it on film is a little difficult.

6 weeks

I can't believe it has already been 6 weeks. If I were going back to work, this would be my last week with Callie full time. I think it would break my heart leaving her with someone else. At a daycare she wouldn't get rocked to sleep and have cuddle time with mommy. Not only does she need the cuddle time, I think I do too. I love spending time with her and trying to get her to smile.
We have really created a routine each day. Callie usually wakes up between 4-5am to feed and then goes back to sleep until 7-8am. Then we hang out around the house (eat, clean, go back to sleep). After that, we usually go on a walk around 9am, come home and while Callie is sleeping, Mommy is getting ready for the day. Then Mommy tries to pick up the house and eat some lunch before Callie wakes up. Then by 12pm, Callie wakes up and is ready to eat. She usually stays up for 2 hours and we are ready for a nap at 2pm. We sit down together to rock Callie to sleep and for Mommy to watch her shows and by 3 we are both asleep in the recliner. Loren gets home anywhere from 4:30 - 6:00pm (depending if he took the car or not) and we are awaiting his arrival. We spend awake time with daddy all evening. We then give Callie a bath around 9pm and wait for her nighttime poopy diaper. Then she is ready for bed and it is usually around 11:00pm.