The Oistad Family: Callison is six months old!

Our sweet "Callie girl" is six months old today! She is such a sweetheart and rewards us with the very biggest smiles all the time! One of her favorite things to do is to stand up on our legs and dance to music. We hold her up by her arms and she will wiggle around happily and give us her best "cheerleader face" (Huge open mouth smile!) Adorable.

Callie loves to lay down and grab her toes. She is very flexible and can actually put her toes in her mouth. She is a very oral baby and likes her paci and to suck on teething toys. We are still waiting for that first tooth, but expect it will be soon as she is a little drool monster right now. She soaks several bibs a day!

She is very good a picking up toys with her little fingers and has a blast spinning round and round in her exersaucer. Big brother enjoys helping her go for a ride and she will squack at him happily like she is asking him to go faster, faster! too cute. Speaking of squacking, one of her nicknames is "our little dinosaur". She will make the loudest squacking noises that sound just like what you would imagine a dinosaur to make. She is gonna be a talker, we think.

Another cute thing about Callie is that she loves the camera. This is good because her mother is obsessed with taking adorable photos of her and we do mini-photo shoots often. She smiles so big for the camera and looks right into the lens. Our mini supermodel.

Callie's six month appointment is next week and her Pao Pao and I have been doing all we can to encourage her to increase her feedings both in quanity and frequency to get her weight up a bit. Unfortunately for me, she has gotten to the point where she now refuses to nurse at all (unless she is half asleep in the middle of the night) so I am pumping a lot more and we are giving her breastmilk in bottles. She won't nurse, but she will down a 5oz bottle happily. Our silly girl. But it is worth the shift if she will start eating more. Since I was already pumping at work, it isn't that much different, but now I have to make the time to pump at night, in the morning and on weekends and which is hard when our lives are already so hectic. sigh. We gave her a little bit of rice cereal this weekend and she did great! On to the world of first foods!! :)

On a final note, one of the biggest things we noticed this month was how much Callie ADORES her big brother! She loves to play with him and just watch everything he does. (We try to distract her from watching when she catches him being naughty) But seriously, she would just stare at him all day with stars in her eyes if she could. Noah is very gentle with her and loves to sit with her and hold her hand. If they are both in the car and we are unloading the kids, he will say we can get sissy out first. If she isn't in the car yet, he will sometimes cry and tell us that we have to "go get sissy!!" It is sweet how he looks out for her.

She had her first real giggle fest today. She has made lots of happy loud noises before but we wouldn't really call them laughing. But today Noah started playing hide and seek with her and she started giggling non-stop!

We are so in love with our little miss. Can't wait to see what is in store for the next few months! I'm a little behind on blogging, so below are a few pictures from the past two months!