Happy 14 week Birthday Kalia!

This week, Kalia :

• laughed for the first time.  Not just a baby gaggle, but a for real belly laugh.  She'd had a rough day on Wednesday (we thought due to teething), so to calm her down, I took her in our big bath with me.  Chris was sitting on the edge of the tub and took Kalia's wash cloth and started flinging water at her.  I might have nagged a wee bit and told him to stop aggravating her because she's been in a bad mood all day.  Then she started laughing...and she didn't stop.  He kept throwing water at her face (and my face too since I was holding her!), and she just thought it was the greatest thing.  It was so cute - she had both of us laughing pretty hard!
• went to a learning thing at the library for ages 18 months and under and loved it.  We did songs and dances and they had a little puppet show and Kalia was totally into everything going on.  She loved looking at the other little kiddos!
• for the most part, stopped crying in her car seat.  The trick?  ESPN Radio.  No, I'm not joking.  I turn the radio part on, she cries.  I turn on ESPN radio, she's just as content as can be.  Daddy keeps saying "that's my girl!!!"
• made her first trip to the pediatrics after hours urgent care place.  She felt warm to me on Friday, so I took her temperature in the afternoon, and it was just right at 100, which I just chalked up to teething.  She went down for a nap, slept 3 hours (unheard of), and was extremely warm when she woke up, so I took her temp again - 101.3.  I called her pediatrician, and they were closed by the time they called me back but told me to go straight to the urgent care place with her.  Poor baby girl - they put a cathedor in her to take a urine sample, and put a needle in her arm to draw blood.  She was looking straight into my eyes and screaming crying - her little face was purple.  Her blood count should've been between 5000 - 15,000, and hers was at 19,000. (The week previously when she had her little stomach bug and couldn't stop pooping, it was at 15,800.)  I felt so incredibly bad for her - I was crying too by the time they were done with her.  We finally went back into the room and I nursed Kalia until she fell asleep, and then the nurses came in and told me that they were going to have to give her a shot of antibiotics in her leg and that it was going to be painful.  They gave it to her while she was sleeping on me, and she woke up screaming and it took a good 30-40 minutes to get her to recover from that one.  She thought she was in her safe spot :-(.  She'd wake up in the mornings with no fever, and then by mid day have a fever in the mid 101's.  Saturday night it got up to 101.5.  Tylenol helped bring it back down.  They called us on Sunday night and said she had a UTI, and called in antibiotics for her.  As of Tuesday, she was fever free for the whole day, but she started coughing and being really really congested on Tuesday too.  Her little friends that she hangs out (and hung out with on Thursday at the library) are all sick with a throat virus, so I'm really hoping she doesn't have two things on top of each other.  Right now, she'll be playing and completely fine, and then just start screaming crying.  I think it's because it hurts her to pee.  :-(
• weighed in at 14 lbs 9 ounces at the urgent care pediatric place on Friday.
• takes after her Daddy and eats like crazy when she's sick.  It's really good actually - it helps her get better quicker, but man, I'm drained!
• learned how to blow bubbles from Daddy.  Now not only is she a drool monster, she can blow her drool all over you too!!!  Daddy is quite proud of himself.

We did still take her weekly photo's...of course!  Daddy was home sick on Tuesday too, and he was making her laugh to the side of me.  I think she grew like 6 inches between last week and this week - she's so long!!!