We put our gate up on the stairs. Ally has started trying to crawl. She does pretty good, except that almost all of her progress is backwards. I wondered if she'd have any trouble getting that huge belly of hers off the ground, but she manages. She even scoots her legs forward, but hasn't managed to figure out how to move her arms. I hope it takes a while. While she's stationary, she's a lot easier to watch.

We made our first trip to the ER this weekend. Not really an emergency situation, but since Rob's got friends there. We had her checked out and got advice on how to medicate her. She's got a pretty bad upper respiratory cold, which morphed into her first ear infection. She's feeling a lot better now, except for when we make her take her antibiotics. She's not real thrilled with them.

Last Tueesday was her first experience with a babysitter. Rob and I went out for dinner for our aniversary (thanks for the card Harriett). We left her with a nurse that Rob works with who's been asking to babysit since Ally was born. I'm proud to say that I didn't call home to check on her once! I'm not so proud that the first drink I had made me dizzy. It's been a long time! We couldn't think of anything more exciting to do than have dinner. We lead very boring lives. Well, that's about it for now. Love you all

food!!
Ally is starting on eating from a spoon. Mostly she's just slobbering it all over, but she's learning fast. I posted new pictures, so check them out.

Come on...it's "chillin' ". "Chilling" is a scary movie, or the thought that I'm probaly going to turn into my mother someday.Chilin' is kivcking back and being cool. It's an art that Ally has already mastered. hjmnh.l0 - She says hi by the way. She just doesn't spell too well.
(In response to a comment from Uncle Roger re: a picture that was posted)

Oops. Obviously, she inherited the spelling thing from me

Okay, this time Ally cooperated and we got a naked weight. As of 3/24/04 (4 months old) she weighed... 16 lbs 3 3/4 oz. The doctor says she's perfect (ok so maybe there was a little paraphrasing) We also went to get pictures taken (Yet again) at Sears this time, where I was disappointed to find that they don't have online capabilities. So I have to wait until we get them back to scan them in. We won't go back there again. Penney's works just fine. Although, Sears did a great job on the pictures. You'll see. Ally has really mastered the rolling from belly to back, and is now working on the other direction. She discovered her toes last week, and 90% of the time now, you find her with feet in the air holding on to her toes, talking to them. It's the cutest thing!

So life is going on as usual here. We get more playing done than cleaning. Ally slobbers all over everything. So her clothes get washed and ours wait until we need them. Then, one day we're both home, we take turns playing with the baby and try to get everything done in one day. We invariably fail because we don't really take turns. Babies are too fun to let go of. Not much more rolling over. Mostly it happens when she's asleep. She gets her arms under her then. When she's awake, her arms are out next to her and get in the way.

Rob graduates with an associate degree in May!! Then I think he's taking the summer off and starting real school in the fall. Nothing new with me. My life is all about feeding, changing and playing the baby. She's just too much fun. It's a good thing I didn't know how much fun babies are until now...otherwise I 'd have a lot more already! I'm too tired now to have more. We need time to recuperate a little

weight check
I had Ally weighed on Thursday. So far she's up to 15 lbs 12 1/2 oz (with a full diaper. She filled it when I was getting ready to take it off to weigh her, so I thought it wise to leave it on!) No more rolling, but she's been eating up a storm, so I think she's getting ready to grow some more. It's hard to remember how little she was when we brought her home.

Ally rolled over again last night! This is the second time she's done it now. She doesn't quite know what she's doing though. She'll be crawling before long. She tries now and gets very angry when she can't get to all her toys she can see. I can't believe she's growing this fast! We go to the Dr. on the 24th, so we'll see then just how fat she is. For a while there, she was growing in length and making her belly thin out a little, but she's packing it on again now.

Until later
KT