3 months old, 6 months clothes

Miss Livie is officially wearing size 6 month clothing.  My baby's growing like a weed! :(  We also took her down to Chicago for a Gerber casting call last week Wednesday.  After getting all the way there, sitting was a requirement!  Argh!  I wasn't very happy with the agent about that!

She's also lost most of the hair on her hairy little ears.  Yesterday, she laid under the fish playmat at my parent's house and was actually reaching for them intentionally!  Also, we survived her first illness.  Last week Monday and Tuesday she ran low-grade fevers and had some congestion.  Luckily we were better by Wednesday.

Mr. Whitaker continues to grow and amaze us as well.  He can now sing AND recognize all uppercase letters.  He can also get most of the lower case letters.  He's also been doing some simple addition in the car using his fingers.

In other news, I'm looking for new jobs.  I had a phone interview on Friday.  An in-person interview yesterday on a GI unit and another one tomorrow on a heart care unit.  Wish me luck!

Park Date

Yesterday (9/5), I got an early morning text message from my friend Tracey who happens to have a son, Wyatt, who is 6 months older than Whitaker.  They were going to a park in Waukesha and invited us.  So, despite the 88 degree temps I agreed to meet as Whitaker has needed the interaction with others.  Livian wasn't a big fan of the heat, however, and cried quite a bit, but after about 45 minutes fell asleep.

After playing on the "diggers," running on the equipment (where Whitaker hit his head so hard it knocked him to the ground) and then finally swinging (Livian fell asleep here) we went for a walk down the Glacial Drumlin Trail in search of the train tracks.  Well, it was roasting hot on the asphalt we decided it was too far.  We went back to our cars and drove to the train tracks.

The boys played on the tracks for just a few minutes when Wyatt fell and got a lot of owies.  It was also so hot, and I had left Livian in the running car with the air on.

The hot weather warmed the pool up to 92 and Whitaker and Joe went swimming in the evening.  Whitaker actually swam using my raft!!!  Livian was her usual "if someone isn't holding me and walking, then I'm going to cry" mode that evening.  Thus, I didn't get a chance to go in and just held her.

Edit: 10/3/12 - and as fate would have it, that was our last warm day and last anyone was able to go in the pool.  :(

Yay! I have fingers!

Livian has discovered her fingers and is working very hard to try and move them on command.  She stares and stares and even starts to tremble while looking at them.  She's getting very good at getting her fist to her mouth when she wants to sooth herself.  :/

Joe's back from his trip to Phoenix for work.  The kids and I did remarkably well together.  Livian cried most of Sunday.  My dad came and got Whitaker that afternoon and he helped him move dirt and ride the tractor.  Livian and I went and picked him up that evening.  Poor Whitaker was so tired he fell asleep waiting for me to put Livian to bed.  Monday we went shopping and both kids were so well behaved after a not-so-great night of sleep.  In other news, I got a pair or normal waistband jeans!!  Tuesday was just an at home lounging day with some cleaning.  We also made a welcome home present for daddy to hang in his office - 3 canvas, each with a dinosaur painted on it.

Ashley is coming to meet Livian tomorrow and Friday we have 3-month pictures with Shannon!  Saturday I return to work and couldn't be sadder about it.  Tome is just going waaay too fast!!!