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Callie is still sleeping so I have a minute to blog. I guess this 13 hours of sleep is why she doesn't nap that long during the day ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM (NONNA)! We'll be calling if Callie wakes up soon!

It's so nice when different cars pull up to your house every morning (joke). I don't know why they have to park in front of our house. There's plenty of space on the street in front of the unoccupied houses. Oh well, hopefully they'll finish the house next door soon. Then, every time I look out my front window I won't think someone is here to visit me.

I don't really have any news since I've been blogging so much. I posted a picture of Gustav that I just took. He's still sick so I don't think I'm going to be able to work out again today. Ho hum. Maybe I'll go grocery shopping.

Gus' hair is really starting to grow back, I'll try to take another picture tonight when he gets home. Ok, I better go before this gets any more boring!

A New Obsession

Jenni's recent blog reminded me of Callie's newest obsession - taking off her clothes. I guess all kids go through it at some time. It started off innocently with her taking off her shoes and socks in the car (she still does it every time), but this morning I was changing Gustav and I turned around and Callie had completely taken off her pj's (all except one foot which she was waving in the air while completely bent over with hands on the floor. Ok, Callie I guess we'll be getting you dressed now too, huh?

Gustav remains stubborn about completely rolling over. He constantly plays on his side and I know he could roll over, but he just doesn't want to yet. He is officially sleeping 12 hours at night! I finally feel like a human again with my full night sleep. He got sick after Callie (big surprise) and now cries pathetically while coughing all the time. It's so sad when they're sick.

That's all for now!

Washing hands with Daddy

This is how I like to roll over - only half way

Playing around on the bed this morning

We're getting better at eating NEATLY with a spoon, but sometimes she regresses:)

Poor Gustav, this is what happens when you're the second child. I didn't even notice I put a pink kitten bib on him until he was finished eating and playing with Callie. :)

The Sick Home

Well, Callie is sick AGAIN. I don't think we have all been healthy in this house since early November. I was supposed to have a playgroup here today, but instead I am home for the second day in a row with a cranky, sick child. Luckily, Gustav started coughing again so he'll probably get sick as soon as she gets better.

On to a more positive note, thanks to Mary Lauren I figured out how to put links to the other blogs. So, if you haven't checked out hers or Steve and Jenni's blog you can!

I am baking some whole wheat bread right now. Gus won't eat anything except white bread so this will be for me and Callie. It smells good so I hope it tastes good. I'm contemplating making chocolate chip cookies for him so he doesn't complain about only having wheat bread :) That's all the news here for now. If you want to come and visit, our house should be as humid as our house in Florida with all the humidifiers running!!
Bye!

I don't think I published this one yet. This was taken a few weeks ago when Gustav discovered his tongue. He was constantly like this for a couple days until he got over the excitement

Just a Quick Post

Well, so far this blog is easier to maintain. I think I may have to purchase extra web space if it continues to go well. I posted a couple older pictures (from my hiatus). I have decided that Callie is ready to potty train. I just don't know if I'm going to try "potty training in less than a day" or the more gradual approach. I just have to pick my day (or week). More on that when I decide. Nothing else going on here. I'm spending lots of time at the BAC and Callie and Gustav are great in the nursery. Counter to all my working out, I have decided to try baking. My biscotti and cupcakes turned out pretty well, but I still have a lot of practicing. I now have a little girl walking through my legs as I type this so I gotta go!

Callie cleaning baby's 'poopie'. Notice Piglet and Tiger got the changing table :)

Not Much News

Not much new has happened here. Gus and I spent way too much money on some nice area rugs for the downstairs. I am sick of the tiny ones we have and wanted some nice ones, so off we went to spend money, which isn't hard for us to do! We had to special order them so they'll be here in a week or so!

Other than that, we had a nice weekend with Gus home the whole time! :) We took Callie to the pool and Gus video taped her swimming. She really is remarkable in the pool. Some day maybe I'll figure out how to post a video online.

Gustav recently started eating peas in addition to his rice cereal. I know that's not too interesting, but noteworthy possibly for his future wife :) He has also started 'sleeping' through the night. I put in in quotes because he wakes up one or two times and cries for a few minutes and then goes back to sleep. We're getting 12 hours out of him at night!! Woo hoo!! He still has the most annoying cry of any baby I've ever heard. He actually screams at the top of his lungs. If he wasn't so cute I won't publish what I sometimes wish I could do to him :) I guess that's why God makes them so adorable.

Speaking of screaming, I think it's time for him to eat! I feel like there's more to say about Gustav, but maybe I'll remember next time. Enjoy the pictures!

Ready to go in the pool (btw, that's her smile for the camera - pretty funny)!

Callie plotting what to do to Gutstav next - notice how scared he looks - that's his normal face when she is near!

About to munch on a chip at our favorite Mexican Restaurant!

Happy Gustav

She was "frosting" her cupcake (more like eating)

The Bald Family

All the bald jokes lately have reminded me of my maiden name (Baldini) :) Anyway, Callie and Gustav finally got to see Gus with his head shaved for the first time yesterday. Gustav didn't seem to notice because he thinks everyone should be bald, but Callie didn't know who gus was at first. Then, when she touched his head she called him Nonno. If you didn't know, my dad (Nonno to the kids) shaves his head too.

I only have another second, but I wanted to brag for Callie a little. She has really begun talking well. She gets compliments on it all the time. Yesterday, I went to the dentist and the kids sat in the stroller while I got my teeth cleaned and one of the women there was talking to Callie and when she finished she went on and on about how amazed she was that Callie could talk so well at 20 months old. She can repeat ANYTHING you say and strings 3 and 4 words together now. She is still obsessive about some things like "Mommy jacket off!" or "Callie jacket off" when we get inside - just remember to take you jacket off when you come to our house!!

Gotta go!!

My two bald boys

Callie kept wanting to get in the picture

She counted "one, two, tree!" and jumped off the plant mound and face planted into the grass, that's why she's all dirty :)

They are actually beginning to play together (Callie makes faces at him and makes him laugh)

I guess Gustav wasn't too excited about his rice cereal meal :)

Starting to eat rice cereal!

Also beginning to put EVERYTHING in his mouth!

The Whole Story of the Head Shaving

As you can see from the last post, Gus had his head shaved last night. I got a babysitter for the kids so I could witness the event. Before Gus got hired in this job, the market team had a deal with all the managers in the market, that if they were in the top 10 in the country for two consecutive quarters, the market team (which consists of Gus, his boss Doug and his co-worker Mike) would shave their heads. Well, when Gus interviewed for the job, he had to agree to this deal, which at the time we thought would NEVER happen because this is so hard to do and it is incredible that it actually happened! So, although Gus has a bald head in the middle of January that was shaved by the top managers in his market, it is a really good thing for his career. I believe they were number 7 in the WHOLE COUNTRY for one quarter and number 6 for the last quarter, but don't quote me on that.

It was a pretty funny event. The managers had WAY too much fun and decided to shave most of Gus' head and leave 'horns' or 'pigtails' for a while before shaving the rest. They did the same to Doug, but left a little 'tuft' at the top - so funny. Callie and Gustav still haven't seen him because we got home at 10 pm last night and he won't be home until about then tonight. I wonder if Callie will be scared!

I'll post some more pictures of the kids soon, but I have to go watch One Tree Hill. Bye!

Re-Post

Ok, I am re-posting these pictures and if it works, I will delete the last one. I just want you all to be able to see the pictures at their full size when you click on them!

Mike, Doug and Gus

The first picture of BaldGus

Still Trying to fix things

I republished all the pictures from the previous post so that you could click on them to make them bigger, but after the first one it doesn't seem to be working. If you can click on the pictures and see them larger will you email me and let me know? Thanks!

Here are the pictures of Callie with Grandpa Hertz that I promised!

Callie and Grandpa!

Serious phone conversations!

Bye!

Back Online!

I'm back (hopefully)! I decided to go with another blogging software and upload it to cox's server. I hope this will work for a long time. Ignore the date of this post. I am going to try to copy an entry that I created on January 4th and then try to catch up from there.

January 4, 2005

It sure has been a while so I think I'm going to try to tell our Christmas story in pictures mostly. When it's been this long since I've blogged I get a bit overwhelmed and don't know where to begin. Forgive me if this is confusing! Let's see, Christmas started out with me being sick the whole time!! I went to the doctor on Dec. 22nd and found out I had bronchitis. Then the next day Gustav got sick and while it was really sad and scary we had some temporary relief from his screeching hyena cry (he lost his voice). THEN, a day after I finished the antibiotic I got the FLU! Yesterday was the first day I really felt pretty good since the beginning. Today I went to aerobics and was kind of able to breathe... Enough about that - on to PICTURES!

This one is in a class of it's own! This was Gus' costume the week before Christmas. Doug was Santa and he and Mike were elves. I even heard they went to a bar dressed like this one night!

A little pre-Christmas fun. This is Gus' new mountain bike and Callie had tons of fun riding 'bi-kl' with daddy!!

She even got to ride on his bicycle!

Some of you probably heard that it took us 2 1/2 hours to open presents on Christmas morning. Having a toddler is so much fun at Christmas! She liked all her presents so much that she had to play with each one after she opened it. I don't think she realized that there were so many and she could play later!

You can see our dilemma. We have opened 2 presents and she is content to sit at her new table with her new baby! No rush Callie!

Ta-Ta thought that it was hysterical (or maybe he's laughing at one of his presents!)

Yes, we even had to TRY ON the presents that were clothes!

At one point, we decided to open a few ourselves and turned our back on Callie for a second, when we finished we found her with one of her presents completely opened and she was acting like she was waiting for US!

Gustav got a big wow-wow from Nonna (she made it for him!)

Callie showing off on of her best presents this Christmas (thank you Nonna and Nonno!) She has been playing with the table and chairs non-stop

I'm sure most of you out there know what Christmas with a toddler is like, but it was a new experience for us. Callie had so much fun and she thinks she scored this Christmas because she thinks all of Gustav's toys are hers too. She has been playing with his presents almost as much as her own. Sometimes she lets Gustav play too.

After Christmas (and the only day I was feeling a little better - thank goodness) "ba-ka" (Grandpa) Hertz came for a visit. Callie LOVED Grandpa and made him hold her the whole time. Unfortunately, right before Grandpa was going to leave, I had to take Callie to the emergency room. She fell on her leg and we thought it might be fractured, but she is fine and only limped for a little while :) She got a baby hospital gown this time that was really cute - I'll have to see if I can get the picture off my phone.

Ok, well I had some pictures of Callie and Grandpa and for some reason I can't get them to load on this post. I will try to put them on the next one.

I have spent so much time dealing with all this I hope it all works out. Check back often to see if I'm not so fed up with this that I actually blog again :) Bye!