The Adventures of Callie Victoria Ortiz: Callie is 3 months old!

HAPPY THREE MONTHS TO OUR BABY GIRL CALLIE!!!

Callie is just SUCH an amazing daughter! She really turns my day around! We have had our ups and downs lately with battling a terrible diaper rash since day 1 of formula, congestion, a bad cough, a scare of RSV from daycare, drooly days, poopy days, throw up sessions, funky eye movements, and MORE.

All of that aside...

She is a healthy, beautiful, growing baby girl.

She has a followup GI appointment next week, and also an ENT appointment. Her pediatrician wants her looked at because she grunts on her exhales almost all of her wake time. I just think she is talkative, but that is just Mommy instinct... I am not a doctor.

Some milestones she has hit recently:

Held her bottle once, laughs, coos, smiles when recognizing Mommy and Daddy, enjoys bath time, sits in bumbo, holds head up, sleeps through the night, moves her neck left to right, and as of today, tries to sit up from a laying down or inclined position! (Daycare teachers said she looks like she is doing crunches!)

An update on her GI issues: We are on day 3 of trying a new formula: Neocate. After ALL of those coupon requests and mailings from friends and family, as well as samples from a few of our doctors and even my maternity sub's pediatrician friends, we are on a prescription formula. Long story short, we think she has an external allergy to Nutramigen. It was predigested, for her cow's milk protein allergy, however she battled through a BLISTERY, nasty diaper rash since day 1 of it. She had $130 worth of prescription butt creams, and nothing worked to keep it away! Her rash is GONE as of tonight!!! She has new black poop- exciting, SUPER STINKY, but normal... supposedly it will stay this way! The good news: time to celebrate a smooth tushy! She still has some random throw up sessions, like tonight.

Cough: Someone in her daycare had RSV, and she did have a cough from starting daycare... so we had the "first cold" scare, and as new parents, it was not fun. She does have a cold mist elephant humidifier by her swing where she sleeps now, and until the cough is gone, she will not lay flat.

Callie makes a cute Elvis-style lip gesture, and it makes us laugh. She also lifts her eyebrows up and wrinkles her forehead!

Below are some videos and pictures :)

Callie at her first BIG MINI event - MINI bib and onesie compliments of Orlando MINI. She caravanned with 17 MINI's to Ocala National Forest, where we saw some cabins, had a BBQ, and enjoyed some motoring!