Post baby bump

Interweb friends I am outraged!! OUTRAGED I tell you.
Most recently the royal baby was announced and all was right with the world. Then the media started applauding Kate on her bravery of showing her post baby bump!!! The baby was less than a day old and they had the nerve to call it a post baby bump!!! And how women around the world should rejoice and be proud of their "mummy tummies"!!!! What the heck has this world come to. I mean come on. This is not a note worthy situation! It's annoying enough that women have to be conscious of their baby bumps while the baby is still in there but less than a day later we should be self conscious about it!?!?!? Mummy tummies are badges of honor no matter how long we have had them and no matter how big or small they are.
I am 15 weeks post baby this week and I have lost not only the baby weight but some more on top of it. I still have a "mummy tummy" and am proud of it. I've had a "mummy tummy" for the past two years and am proud of it. I'm proud that I have had the fortune to feed my daughter with my breast milk alone and the side effect of that has been the weight loss. I haven't done anything in particular to lose the weight, it just happened. For other women that is not the case. I hate that we as a society are so caught up with this sh*t and that women can't support one another to abolish these old ways of thinking! I will not be defined by how much I weigh.
Okay, stepping down from the soap box.
Thank you, carry on with your day.
Ciao
S

3 months

Calli is three months old!

I don’t think I’ll ever be prepared enough to post on the actual date, but oh well.
Calli is three months old and having a blast. She is such a happy little lady with smiles for everyone. She has started reaching out into the world having recently discovered her hands and tries grabbing at toys, necklaces and everything else in her path. She loves to talk and tell stories. She is especially smitten with her Daddy and her Nonna these days as they are taking care of her for the summer. She is growing fast and is already into the 6 month clothes, which we have a ton of. I don’t think she will even get to wear everything once. She has recently started showing interest in toys and books. We try to read at night, but she is generally ready for bed at that point so we read at other times in the day. 

Next month she will have her first long weekend on the Cape, we are so looking forward to some sea air.

Hope you are all surviving the heat!

Happy Summer!

xo

Ciao

S

2 months old

Calli is two months old (truth be told she is actually 10 weeks). I've been slacking on writing this post because she has been keeping me busy, as has my hubby.
This is our week off together to help hubby figure out the schedule and in true Campbell fashion, hasn't worked out one bit. Oh well. I throw him to the Calli wolf come Monday, ready or not. Although are we ever truly ready? I wasn't!
Here are the Calli stats! She weighs 12 lbs 14 oz and is 24 inches long! She is in the 95th percentile for both height and weight. She had to get her first shots at this last appointment and she did great. There were some tears and some sobbing but you couldn't tell if it was me or her. We both cried a bit. She didn't get a fever but she was MISERABLE. So we ended up giving her some acetaminophen to help her out. I didn't like it one bit, especially the part where she was miserable. She is generally such a good and happy baby that when she does finally scream and cry it is just terrible and worrisome. But we got through it and she was back to her happy self.
Calli likes to smile and coo. She especially likes to do this when she is being changed or fresh from a bath. She loves to suck on her fists and talk to her friends on the activity mat and in the lamb chair. She hasn't laughed yet but I think she is trying to. Lately (I hate to even write about it in case I jinx us) she has been sleeping an average of 6 hours a night. I'm constantly surprised and continue to check on her throughout the night. She also is falling into a great routine and schedule.

Thats all for now.
Ciao
xo
s

Random thoughts and musings

• People who say that you should pump or breast feed in a bathroom or worse yet bathroom stall have not done it nor do they understand the mechanics of it. 
• Every time I sit down to eat baby girl fusses to be fed or picked up and I have a feeling this does not end for a long time. 
• My car is in the shop again. Hubby's was there last week. Will it ever end. I feel like I'm making daycare payments to the mechanic. Also means that I am stuck at home! UGH!!!!!
• Sleep is so much more important that I ever before realized. We celebrate when baby girl sleeps more than a 4 hour stretch. The other night it was 7 and I felt like a new woman.
• I have a week and a half to go on my maternity leave. That makes me so nervous... and sad. Means baby girl is growing up.
• There isn't really anything that was a huge surprise to me about having a baby... except for the magnitude of love that you can feel and have for another human being. I thought that I knew what love was... what did I know!
• Why is it that we pine for the nice weather, and then as soon as it gets here we sit inside in the A/C all day?
• Why won't she take the bottle now?

Ciao

xo 

S

What's up?

• 8 weeks. Calliope is 8 weeks old. She likes to smile and stare at her toys on the activity mat and in her lamby chair. She is sleeping 6 hours in a stretch at night. She loves the black and white images that I taped up next to her changing tables. In 2 weeks we will go for her 2 month appointment and I will update her stats. 
• I am going back to work July 1. A little over two weeks. Originally I hoped to stay home for 12 weeks, but hubby will be done with school next week so we decided to stay home together for a week and then he will take over. I will take over again when he goes on tour so that will make up for the 2 weeks. I am sad but really happy at the same time. We feel really lucky that we haven't had to go to daycare yet and that daddy gets to stay home with her for the summer.
• It has been raining forEVER!!! It feels that way anyway. I am waterloaded. We can't go for walks and that stinks. I might try walking the mall if this doesn't let up, although we are supposed to have a nice weekend. 
• My favorite thing these days is snuggling with my girl. She loves to cuddle up.
• I am really excited about the summer and the walks and the weekend trips and all the possibilities.
• One of my BFF's is going through some pretty rough times right now and my heart breaks for her. My other BFF is coming for a visit today and I CAN'T WAIT!!!
• Sunday is Father's Day.... don't know where to begin for hubby! He has pretty much everything he wants. I was thinking of getting him a carvel cake... fudgy the whale!!
• We are considering going to the cape for a weekend in August! Would be our first family trip. hmm.... Any pointers? Definite musts or must nots?
• I've lost some weight beyond the baby weight and now my clothes don't fit. Ugh. Headed back to work and need some new duds. I don't know where to begin other than my own closet. I'm going to try to get some stuff next week. Starting with a pair of nice summer shoes and a skirt.
• All this rain! It's almost enough to put the heat on. Hate that I just wrote that.

Ciao for now!

xo

S

Night Owl

Feeding Calli in the middle of the night is not easy. Getting up every three hours on demand to change, feed, burp and put back to sleep takes about 45 minutes or sometimes longer.
But then there are nights like tonight... Calli ate at 9pm, went right down, slept until 3:40am. When she woke up to eat she had the biggest smile for me. She ate quickly and fell asleep in my arms with a grin on her face. Love that little face.
We've been giving her a bath every night and it puts her out for at least 5 hours or almost 7 like tonight.

Back to bed!
Xo
Ciao
S

What's up?

I know that I have mainly posted about Calli lately, but wouldn't you? She is ADORABLE!!!
So this is my attempt at not only blogging about my beautiful daughter...

• So being home is not that bad; except when my husband gets home all I want to do is talk his ear off and all he wants to do is not talk. It can be a little challenging but we are making it work.
• My computer sucks. I have owned this thing for almost 7 years and every time I turn it on I am afraid that it is going to die!  I just don't want to put too much money into this thing if it isn't going to last... I haven't upgraded the operating system so I can't even do all the new fangled stuff on it! SUCKS! I hate to say it but I don't think my next computer will be a mac. It just doesn't pan out in the end. It is the biggest reason why there aren't more pics on this blog. 
• I love hot days. I don't mind the heat. I hate sitting in air conditioning all day. I know, I'm weird.
• We got offered a weekend away in August. I can't believe I am considering going away with an infant. I always said I wouldn't be that mom.... but the idea of a walk on the beach might just be too appealing!
• My oldest nephew is graduating high school this weekend. He was at my high school graduation!!! Can't believe how time flies. His prom was last night and he looked so handsome.
• I am struggling lately, trying to find something to read. I started the Night Circus and couldn't get into it. It wasn't a bad read just not my speed right now.  I guess the fact that the only chance I get to read is during middle of the night feeding doesn't help. 
• I also didn't think I would turn into a frumpy mom overnight. I swear, every time I look in the mirror I am horrified. Nothing fits me well and inevitably I leak breast milk on all my clothes. Sure as hell wasn't ready for that!
• I was a nervous Nelly during my pregnancy and have become a little neurotic with a newborn; is this normal? My mom and sister and all tell me to just relax... easy to say.
• Because of the nerves I am trying to take Calli out at least once a day so shout out if you want a visit!!!
• Here are a few things I am LOVING right now: my chicco stroller travel system, my squeezebox, the boppy, my iphone and ipad, mary kay cleanser and moisturizer, my gorgeous Calliope.

That's all for now! Have a great weekend!

xo

Ciao

S