Let Me Try It

Kalista had a few visitors this past weekend, Grandma Susan (Por Por) and Uncle Bill (Kau-Fu). It didn't take long before she warmed up to them and remembered who they were. She was spoiled again for another few days with constant attention and being held in everyone's arms. Kalista showed them her new talents of standing up with a little assistance and the start of crawling.

Kalista is looking more like a little girl now with Grandma

Speaking of standing and crawling....we saw Tami, Kali's physical therapist, this week and we have been challenged to work on getting her crawling and standing up on our own. For the past few days, Kalista is getting better at pulling herself up to a stand and has taken on getting into crawling stance on her own (which is a big step for her). Every little day we are learning something new.

We even saw the neurologist, Dr. Mehl, this week for our routine developmental milestone check up. We found out the size of Matt's head circumference at this visit since they measured Jen's at the very first office visit. It is to get a sense of what Kali's head size should be. After a few peeks with his scope and a few taps with the reflex hammer, Dr. Mehl told us that Kalista has a "good brain" and that we don't have to see him again until six months from now.

Bleh....that plum is so tart!

I love paper products

Kalista has taken on to touching and mouthing everything, except food of course. Well, we take that back, she does have a select amount of "allowed" foods that go in her mouth. Today, she took on licking a plum, gumming Baby Mum Mum rice crackers and mouthing her favorite vegetable item, carrot sticks. Baby foods and purees have not been a big hit lately for some reason. Besides that, she loves to suck on paper and all sorts of items that don't seem threatening to her.

You could be the next one I call...

She is definitely a kiddo of the future. Her favorite items happen to be electronic products ranging from the laptop computer and remote control to our cell phones. She seems to know how to text and IM folks too. Her little thumbs come out and dance around the keyboard. Her messages look like this most of the time: "qoeieieo....skakalaskfjalsi ....afalsifhoaiw" and on some occasions they get sent to some lucky friend/family member. So you may be next lucky person to get a message directly from Kalista.