Roll Over Beethoven

Ally rolled over on Monday night! So far she has only done it once, from tummy to back, and Karl was the lone witness so hopefully she will do it again so we can capture it on video. She will turn 4 months this weekend and has her check up next week so more to come soon.

Ally's Baptism

This weekend we went back to Oshkosh to have Ally baptized at the church I grew up in, which is also where we got married. We had planned to do this much earlier but with Karl's injury and the holidays, this was the first weekend we had available. It was a very quick trip but Ally did great! She slept through the entire church service and most of her baptism. My brother and Karl's Aunt are her Godparents and she looked so beautiful in her white dress. She woke up in time to take pictures at the church and stayed awake through a nice dinner with the whole family. The water and oil combination made for a very crusty hair do by the end of the night! Even after two baths, she still smells like the oil. Here are some photos from the weekend's celebration.

A Big Girl Chair

For Christmas, my grandparents gave us money to buy Ally a big girl high chair. We hadn't really done any research at the time so we weren't quite ready to buy before Christmas but we did some looking and ordered this one from Graco last week. Karl put it together on Friday and Ally sat in it for the first time while we ate dinner on Saturday. Despite not feeling that well, she was so happy to sit at the big kid table! Its a 4-in-1 chair that can be used a variety of ways so we really think we picked a good one. It also has great shoulder straps so Ally really looks like a big girl sitting up tall. We put some toys on her tray while we ate and she just loved to look around and check things out from a new angle rather than on the floor or in her swing. We are going to start solids after her 4 month check up in a few weeks so this is one step closer for her.

An Unhappy First

Ally officially has her first cold. We sort of assumed that once she started day care that she would get sick and we were right, it took all of 7 days really. Two other kids at day care were sick with fevers and a cough last week so sure enough she started to sound a little congested early in the week and wasn't sleeping well. We plugged in the humidifier in her room mid week and that seemed to help her sleep a lot better, she didn't wake herself up coughing and we didn't really her any rattling in her chest. She wasn't running any type of fever until yesterday when her little body finally decided it was full on sick. She was acting a little tired last night when she came home from day care and I wasn't feeling well either so we checked and both of us where running a little fever. We gave Ally some baby tylenol and she ate well and was happy so we decided to meet Karl's parents for dinner like we usually do. Well... she fell asleep in the car and when she woke up at the restaurant she was pretty fussy and all of a sudden was throwing up gross green stuff all over! She was hysterical coughing and crying and I was having a hard time calming her down. She settled down enough so we could get her in her car seat and get home. We checked in with her pediatrician (nice when its a family friend who is just a text away) and he said just give tylenol for the fever and watch her so we did. Her fever was back up to 100 but she was still acting happy and normal after another dose of tylenol. I put her to bed at 10:30 and prepared myself for a long night but she actually did really well. She only woke up at 12:30 to eat more then slept from 2 until 8:30. This morning she has been happy but is a little more congested and a little feverish. Its obvious she is having a hard time breathing through her nose but she is still wanting to eat, play and smile so we are confident she will survive. Good thing its the weekend so we can relax at home! Both of us hope to be feeling better when we go back to work and day care on Tuesday.

Concentration

Ally spends much of her play time hard at work trying to get her hands on things she sees. Here is a short video I took the other night of her laying on the mat. You can tell she is a thinker, she was concentrating hard until she got her hands on what she wanted. I used my regular camera and not the video camera so the quality isn't the best. I hope to have the video camera handy when she decides to roll herself over.