Rich and Kath’s Weblog

Alison met her Uncle Bill and Uncle A.J. last weekend. Unfortunately she was having a bit of a cranky day, but she perked up a little bit for part of their visit. Perhaps one day Uncle Bill will direct her in a play with Uncle A.J. playing her, um, older brother Following the pics of their visit are some random cute shots from the last couple weeks.

Some pics from the last couple weeks:

Ali loves her baths.

Rich and Ali love to play running/bicycle

Saturday was my first birthday as a mommy. Our Doula, Lorra, came over so Rich and I could go out to dinner. We went to a BYOB called Roberto’s, and then Alison was kind enough to sleep for 8 hours straight!  I’ve always liked to wear a pretty dress on my birthday, and I decided that Alison should also wear a pretty dress on her mommy’s birthday. This was her first time wearing a dress, of course we had to take a million pictures because she looked absolutely adorable.

Alison loves to stare at the Monet painting above her changing table.

We took Alison for her first of what will be many trips to Fitler Square. She met the goat, and the bear and the turtles (as you will see, she seemed to be a little cranky by the time she met the turtles). For those not from Philly, Fitler Square is a lovely little park in my favorite neighborhood in the city (our apartment last year overlooked the park). We will look forward to attending the Halloween parade, Christmas Tree lighting, Easter Egg Hunt and other events they have for kids at the park.

Ali loves to look all around and take in everything

As my friend Kim said, maybe the turtle was moving too fast for her

What a difference a day makes. After some of the changes we have made with medicine and formula, Alison is doing better. She still has fussy episodes, but nothing as bad as she was about a week ago. Above is Rich holding her in a position that is supposed to help colic babies. As you can see, he was not very successful then, below you will see how she took to it one day later.

She loves her new chair (it’s one of the things that has helped calm her)

In deep contemplation

Alison had her first real bath last week. Unforunately the tub we got doesn’t fit in our sink, so she had her bath in the sink. Luckily our doula, Lorra, was here to help.  She seemed to be okay with it until her hair got washed, she was not pleased at that point. The last week has been very challenging. Alison has become very demanding and fussy and we fear she has colic (that’s what the peditrician says it sounds like). She wants to be held all the time, so I haven’t been able to have much freedom during my days to do anything. And at about 6:00 the last 4 days, she screams inconsolibly for hours. We have started her on some medicines, changed her formula, and tried some behavorial things. That has helped her during the day, but as far as her evening freak outs, we fear there may be no cure (as we are told, there is nothing you can do about colic).  Tonight was better than the last few, so that’s encouraging, but we aren’t getting our hopes up. So, this has made it difficult to stay in touch with people, check emails, or post on this blog. So, I apologize to anyone who I haven’t gotten back to. Hopefully over the next few weeks things will get better and I will be back in touch.

Safe and Sound after the bath

First Tummy Time (which she seems to love)