Happy! Happy! Happy!

Olivia is feeling MUCH better and is the happiest little girl on the block.  Such a relief!  She still has the occasional green goo poo, but the diaper rash (especially the oozing wounds) is gone and she no longer seems in physical pain with tummy aches!

A couple weekends ago, when Olivia was having a bad Saturday night, Mum-Mums Bellenger decided it was time for a visit.  Lo and behold, Sunday morning after our visit to urgent care, Kevin, Olivia and I were picking up my mom at SFO for a three day visit!  I think Olivia decided to recover as soon as Gma bought her plane ticket!  Mom being out here allowed Kevin to relax a bit after all his crazy work travel, and gave me the opportunity to work for 7 hours and semi catch up from the last several weeks of single-mom'ing it with sick kiddo.  I really appreciated the help.

Olivia stayed home with Mum-Mums for Monday and Tuesday.  They went for walks, Olivia refused to nap, she showed off her trick of holding the bottle, they read books and did LOTS of jumperoo.  At one point, they had so much fun, Mom's tooth fell out!  Mom made us beef stroganoff and beef stew.  We really had a lovely, relaxing-ish time.  The big thing is that I was finally able to concentrate a little bit on work.

 
 

 

Wednesday through Friday, Olivia was back at daycare and while she had a few green goo poos, the diaper rash remained at bay.  Thank goodness!  The solution seems to be putting rice cereal in her bottles to firm up the poop.  Olivia is temperamental on whether she'll eat purees, so the best way to make sure some "solids" make it into her tummy is via the bottle.  We are also adding probiotics to her food to help her gut. 

Last weekend, Olivia and Dad spent lots of time together at home while I ran a number of errands, including finally joining a gym!  Now I have to figure out ways to get there and workout!  Poor Kevin came down with a head cold, but it seems to be lifting now.

Okay, time for sleepy sleeps time.  Just a quick update for now and I'll add pics later.

Fun tricks:
- Blowing raspberries, especially while eating puree :)
- Reaching for the spray from the faucet while taking a bath
- Just about rolling over, reaching for things all around her
- Holding her bottle
- Still jumperooing, but even higher than before!
- Teradactyl screech
- Baby-Led-Weaning on a few things, pizza crust was tonight, cantaloupe yesterday, carrots
- Sat up in a restaurant high chair last Friday night for the first time
- Just about sitting up on her own.  She'll do it for awhile, then flop backward
- First school picture!!!

Nighty-Night!