Deirdre's neighbor's hosted a baby shower for her on Saturday, Feb. 16th. This is Deird's 3rd baby, but it's her first girl!!!! I'm only ashamed that her closest girlfriends didn't think to host one for her first baby girl!!! Deirdre got a lot of PINK baby things! Deirdre is due March 1st, but she doesn't think she'll go that long. Her first 2 babies were born early, so she thinks this one will be early too. We'll see. Deirdre looks like she's about 4 months pregnant, but that's because she's 6'2" and has a lot of room for the baby to spread out in!!!
Sofia and I made new friends in Atlanta - Abby and Sophie!!! Sophie is 4 months old, so about 3 1/2 months younger than Sofia. We met at a La Leche League meeting back in January. I snuck and got her e-mail address from the sign in sheet and e-mailed her a couple of days later. It seemed like just from talking with her for a few minutes that day that we had a lot in common. Sophie is 100% breastfeed and doesn't take a bottle either. Also, Abby had her naturally like I did with Sofia. Abby is also practicing Attachment Parenting with Sophie, which is what we are doing with Sofia - check out Abby and Sophie in their cool wrap (the carrier she is using). It's just this long piece of fabric that you can use to carry the babies in all different kinds of positions. She just ordered a Mei Tai carrier that I'm going to look at and see if I like. I have a Maya Wrap Baby Sling and a Baby Bjorn. We use the sling around the house, but the Bjorn when we go on walks because it seems to be more sturdy when I'm carrying Sofia AND holding back 2 BIG doggies. The downfall of the Baby Bjorn is that they say that you shouldn't always carry your baby in the same position (and the Bjorn only allows for 1 position) because it could be bad for their legs/hips to always be in the same position. So hopefully Abby can show me how to use the Mei Tai and we can get one of those.
I was surprised, but didn't think much about it. Later that night, after we got home from dinner, Sofia threw up!!! A LOT!!! Looked like everything she had eaten all evening came back out. This was the second time that this had happened and the last time it was also after eating cereal (Nathan remembered that it was after cereal the last time!). I figured out that the pumped breastmilk that I was using to mix in with the cereal has gone bad. I moved it to the deep freezer about a month ago and when I opened up the freezer to get the milk that night it smelled fishy. I guess that smell penetrated the milk bags and made the breastmilk go bad. POOR SOFIA!!! I threw away all of the breastmilk from the freezer - all of the stored breastmilk that I had!! SO SAD!! But no point in keeping it if it's bad!! I'll just have to start pumping again to get more to mix in with her food.
Ileana, Neil and Diego came over for dinner on Saturday night. Ileana is my stepmom Aidita's neice (so she's almost my cousin!). It was our first dinner party at our new house where we actually ate in the dining room (it's crazy how now that we have a breakfast area off of the kitchen how we NEVER use the dining room - very sad - but I was glad to use it last night). We had a really great time! We talked for a long time and Diego got to hold Sofia. He was very loving to her! Also, Diego had fun playing with Rubi and Dudley, but only for a little while. He decided that the dogs were a little too big for his taste. I guess when you are the height of Dudley, it can be a little intimidating. Dudley just wanted to lean against Diego, as usual. Diego is such a great kid. He's 4 years old and is extremely well behaved. He played with some toys that he brought and he played with Sofia's bongo drums and he watched some movies. We'll definitely be doing dinner with their family again - soon! 
