bath time!

ok, I just had to post about this because I thought it was hilarious. Tonight I was getting the bath water ready and as always Callen stands at the side of the tub and watches the water. Well tonight I looked down and she was holding onto the side and looking down towards her feet, she had one leg lifted like a dog and she was peeing on the floor. I had pee to clean up but I still thought it was funny, the things kids do!

Is it only mine?

I have been noticing lately that my child always seems dirty! She gets her food EVERYWHERE when she eats, I don't know how but it covers her clothes that are not protected by her bib, its in her hair in her ears, smeared all over her face. There are always remnants somewhere that I don't catch when i wipe her off, and wherever she dropped food or wiped food on her clothes. Then she crawls around, now I try to keep my floors clean but whatever is on the floor she finds it! She also crawls outside which just finishes her off. So the reason I have really been noticing is that other babies always seem clean! If I was to keep her clean I would seriously be changing her clothes just about every hour she is awake. How do you other parents do it? I'm not really complaining because she gets a bath everynight and I get to see my little angel all clean but it is a little embarassing when people come over and she's all messy or when we go out and the first thing she eats she uses as an accessory, people probably think I can't take care of my child. Any tips?

All About Callen

Ok, so I had a request to post more pictures of Callen.... so! here we go! I take hundreds of pictures, so it was no problem to post a few. I tried to upload a video but blogger wasn't quite working right. And just in case this wasn't enough pictures for you, we also have an online photo album which is pretty much dedicated to Callen, the address is www.dcleininger.shutterfly.com

Who needs a fork?

Callen and Cosmo at nap time

Doggy!!!!

Where did Cosmo go??

mmm.... tomatoes

Oreo anyone??











Callen is like a little fish in the tub, she loves it!

2E

Yesterday Dan had his transition check ride, which is his first check ride in the T-1 program. He scored a 2E which means he only had 2 downgrades so he had a really great flight! he was pretty excited and I'm proud of him and all the works he's done. he's always studying and has really been working hard and it paid off! Way to go Dan!!

Date Night

Last night Dan and I lined up a friend to babysit Callen for us while we went out to a movie. With Callen being sick and having such bad stranger anxiety, this is the first time someone other than Grandma has ever watched her while we went on a date. I've realized it's hard to enjoy your time out even when you have it. The whole movie I was worrying, not for Callen but for the poor babysitter, I was hoping that she would still be sane when we got home. We went to see Dark Knight (great movie, by the way!), halfway through the movie we got a frantic call from the sitter saying she'd tried the walk, the bottle, a bath, the binky.... nothing was working, Callen had been screaming for 1 1/2 hrs. Dan told her to try the bottle one more time and then call if it didn't work. She didn't call back but of course I still worried the rest of the movie. When we got home she said she had finally exhausted herself from crying and fell asleep.

It was really good to get out just the two of us though. It's so nice to just spend time with your spouse with no kids around, I wish i'd realized how precious that time was while we were still childless!

Anyway, Callen survived, and Dan and I had a really nice date. The babysitter however told us that she is re-thinking having children.....guess we'll have to find someone else to torture next time! :)

What a day

So, the other day I went into Del Rio, I stopped by the Nissan Dealership to get our 2nd master key that i've been trying to get since we bought our new car. Every time I go in they tell me the person that deals with that isn't there, so I have to come back. Finally they informed me that the key was lost and they would have to make a new one, so I could come in this week and they would do it. So I went in. The service dept. told me that it took an hour and they couldn't do it until after lunch. (it was 11:00). I was really ticked of at this point having made 4 trips into town to get a key that should have been there when I got the car. Ugghhh.. so I yelled at the salesmen and yelled at his boss and finally they made the key for me then, but I was still mad that I had wasted so much time already and still had to wait ah hour... grrrr.

They ended up filling my car up with gas, but that was definitely NOT enough, since I had just filed the car up a couple days before. SO, in case you're in Del Rio I recommend not using Brown Automotive, they have terrible customer service after you buy from them.

Anyway, at this point I had already spent 1 1/2 hrs. at teh dealership and I still had to go grocery shopping. I tried to be fast but Callen was hungry and tired and super cranky, so it was not pleasant. Then I waited in the checkout line for 15 min. when the line right next to me opened up, yay! Then the lady behind me jumped in front and took my spot, so i waited another 10 min. before checking out.

As i got Callen out of the cart I realized she needed a diaper change. I laid her down in the front seat of the car to change her. It was hot so I turned the AC on, while I was doing that Callen peed on the seat of our new car, then as I was walking to the back to put her in her seat, I stepped in Gum, and on top of all that, my Cell phone stopped working.... yeah... needless to say I stayed home the rest of the day. lol, it sounds kinda funny now but at the time it was so amusing. Sorry to vent I just had to complain about my rotten day. Dan just didn't understand because he never has to do anything alone with a baby, which makes everything 10x harder. Thanks for listening :)

What the cat drug in

So, this is our cat Cosmo. He has become quite the hunter. A month or so ago, he brought a ground squirrel into our house and the very next day he brought a bird in! The squirrel got loose and we had to move all our furniture to catch him, the bird got loose in the bathroom and pooped all over our tub! What excitement!

Then, this last week, Cosmo was at it again, he brought in 2 baby ground squirrels, I rescued both of them, I hope they made it.

The day after the ground squirrels this is what I see on my wall as I was eating breakfast. I thought maybe it had just found its way in but as I looked closer I could see the little puncture hole from Cosmo's tooth. ahh, the joys of having a cat!

Today, however, Cosmo came in from a night of hunting and I think he wasn't quite so lucky. He is limping and won't let us touch him. I think something fought back and he seems like he's in quite a bit of pain, hope he's ok!

Sharing

I have decided that all of my efforts to try and keep Callen away from cosmo's food dish have been in Vain. I just can't keep moving poor Cosmo's food. I've had plenty of people tell me they themselves or their children have eaten cat or dog food and most of them turned out ok, so here are my pictures of Callen and Cosmo sharing lunch. A little gross I know, but she seems to enjoy it more than her pureed peas, I'm not sure how Cosmo feels about this though.

Mmm... Mmmm good!

Weekend with the brothers

This last weekend my 3 brothers drove down from Iowa to visit. My two older brothers still live close to my parents and aren't married yet and my younger brother is home for the summer from BYU. They all decided to take a road trip and come down to TX for a few days. It was really fun to have them here. It took Callen awhile to get used to having so many strange people around but she eventually warmed up to them (a little). We had all sorts of fun things planned for them to do while they were down here.

On Friday Dan took us all down to the flight line to show them the planes he's been flying and then they were able to help celebrate Dan's birthday as well. Saturday we rented a boat and took them out on the lake. 2 of my brothers had never tried water skiing before and wanted to try that. I have some video's of that maybe i'll get uploaded of the camcorder someday. It was super fun, I'm still not any good at skiing but someday i'll get the hang of it! Everything was great until I got a ticket for not having a life vest on Callen, she screamed whenever it was on because it was uncomfortable and I finally took it off to let her sleep and of course just my luck, I got caught. Oh-well, I guess that's what I get for not following the rules. So that kinda put a damper on the whole day but all in all it was still fun.

Callen on the boat, she doesnt' look all that excited...


Dan tubing

Dan showing us the T-6
Callen with her Uncle Dusty
Dan and Tracy on T-6

Me and my brothers!

Dan's B-day!

Last friday was Dan's 27th Birthday! For his birthday he got a new golf bag which he's been needing for awhile. I also invited some friends over for a surprise birthday party for him. We had quite a few people here and we had a lot of fun! We have such great friends here, thanks to everyone for making Dan's birthday so special!!

Dan's Cheesy smile while wearing his new golf bag!
Dan's cake, I was pretty proud of this masterpiece!