Portland, Teething and Colds... Oh My!

So we just got back from a fun trip to Portland, OR to visit Nathan's parents and grandparents. It was really neat to have four generations in one house! Nathan's dad is the men's pastor at a church out there and they allowed us to go to the nursery and borrow any of their toys we wanted to for the weekend. We borrowed an exersaucer and some sort of toy that Bella could kick and it would make music and other noises. She LOVED that toy!! Oh my word! I'll post pics and videos later. She liked the exersaucer too, but the kicking toy was definitely her top pick. And needless to say she loved all the attention of all the people while we were there.

Nathan and I also got to go on a date while we were there. He took me to the restaurant we went to on our first date, McCormick and Shmicks. I had TASTY salmon, and he had some monster looking sandwich. It was very nice! Nathan's dad proudly donned the Moby Wrap and Bella napped happily during our date and was up and playing when we got back.

She did really well on the plane all things considered, but she didn't really sleep much. In fact, on the trip out there when we landed she was the only baby NOT screaming, and there were a TON of babies on that flight. She just looked around very wide-eyed wondering what in the world was going on! She was actually teething before we left, and had a little tooth poking through, and another one starting to poke through two days after we were there. All of which made eating, and napping, and the likes very difficult. Well, they both went back down, so we got a little reprieve from that, but the very next day Bella woke up with a stuffy nose and I with a sore throat. :-( So now, if her nose doesn't wake her up at night and nap time, mine wakes us both up. So we're tired girls. :-( Looks like Nathan may be getting it too. We shall see. But she's still super smiley for the most part. She's enjoying sitting on my lap and watching the words pass by as I type now. :-)

More to come on our trip to Portland and of course fun pics. But I just wanted to give a quick update to say that our little girl is doing great! OH! And we had the chance to take Bella by Nathan's mom's work to have her weighed. She's a lactation consultant. Bella weighs 14lbs 3oz at 3.5 months. She's almost double her birth weight!! Momma doesn't have low-fat milk, that's for sure!

Well, off to see if we can get another little catnap in and to do more laundry.