The Booker Post

Well, for those of you who haven't heard, we took Callie to the specialist and we're waiting on the surgery for at least two years. We're really happy about that, but at the same time, we're having trouble finding an antibiotic that she won't have a reaction to and she's able to take. Right now, we're working with a medicine that we have to mix into her food but it apparently changes the taste of her food enough that it's a real battle trying to get her to take it. In a year, they'll retest her for the condition, which she has an 80% chance of growing out of. If she still has it in a year, we'll wait another year and retest again. I'm not sure exactly when they decide that she's not going to grow out of the condition, but he said that he'd a least wait two years. So we'll see. Hopefully, she'll be clear at the next test so we don't have to continue the "Battle of the Antibiotics" chapter in our lives. The surpris...

I am so excited to have a baby that enjoys sleep. With Callie, we fight bed time and we fight a "normal" time to wake up(6 am most days). As I write this, at 8:00 am, Gabriel has been asleep since his 1:30am feeding, He fell asleep at 7:30 last night, just waking up briefly at 9:30 to have a little top off feeding. I feel amazing! :) Gabriel's been eating rice cereal for the past few days (he's a little early, but he was SO ready - last night, he grabbed my popcorn and would have eaten it if he could have figured out how to get it to his mouth!). He tries to sit up in his bouncer all the time and he does a crunch, holding his head and upper back up and his legs. It's pretty cute. Both Philip and I agree last night that he's really growing into his little personality. He's almost always a happy baby and just gets a little cranky when he's ready to take a nap and goes to sleep really easily (unlike his sister). He laughs out loud, smiles a lot, and has ...