March Madness

There is a major thunderstorm going on outside. Actually for the past three days we have had a ton of rain and storms but this storm seems to be the worst. The power has been out for quite a while this morning but luckily it just came back on. Apparently there have been some tornadoes in the area. I love thunderstorms and luckily I was raised in Nebraska so I know what to do if it gets bad. Thanks to family who checked in to make sure we were OK. Even Eric texted us so you know it must have been bad.

Anyway, back to the title of the post, there has been a lot of madness in the Fisher home this past month. Eric has been working like mad at his surgery rotation at the Bay Pines VA hospital. His first two weeks there he was working with the plastic surgeon and learning a lot. The past two weeks he has been working general surgery and has been working like crazy...14 hour days including weekends. I think Caitlyn forgot she had a dad for a little while. Madness I tell you! He did not love general surgery but he did well. He told me all of his video gaming days have paid off. I guess he impressed the surgeon during a gallbladder surgery by using his arthroscopic wands and dunking the removed gallbladder into the little sack before they pulled out. I am so glad that his hours of Call of Duty and Black Ops are finally paying off. This week he has been working with the orthopedic surgeon. He seriously loves orthopedics and said he totally impressed them his first day during a total knee replacement and they even offered him a job for when he graduates. He starts his ER rotation in a couple of weeks which will definitely be a continuation of the madness. Therefore, Caitlyn and I have decided to getaway from it all and go visit my parents in Nebraska for 3 weeks. We are going to miss Eric but I am so excited to spend some time with my family and catch with my friends that I haven't seen forever. We also get to take a long weekend trip to Utah so Caitlyn can meet all of her aunts, uncles and cousins there. However four-hour flights with a four-month old alone and multiple LONG car rides may be a completely different level of madness. She has actually had a few really bad meltdowns the past few weeks and unfortunately they have all been in public so wish me luck.
Other than an occasional meltdown Caitlyn is doing well and growing like a weed. She is 16 lbs and 26 inches long at 4 months. We love our chubby little girl! She started rolling over a few weeks ago and for a while you couldn't get her to stop. She was rolling over in her crib, in the bathtub, everywhere. As soon as you laid her down on her back she would roll over to her stomach. She has yet to learn to roll back over onto her back. Anyway, all of a sudden she just quit rolling. It has been a week now since she last rolled over. At first I was a little worried and thought she was regressing developmentally but then I read somewhere that sometimes they stop doing certain "tricks" while they focus on developing a new one. Lately she has been expressing herself more, making some pretty hilarious faces and playing with her mouth, chewing on her tongue, blowing bubbles, smacking her lips, etc. Anyway, this morning her rolling ability suddenly returned so I guess all is well.
The pediatrician recommended that we start Caitlyn on some cereal so she could practice eating normal food. I was a little hesitant because she is doing well on breast milk and her formula supplements and lets face it, the girl doesn't really need any extra empty calories. But for the past several weeks she would stare at the fork while I ate and not take her eyes off of it. Sometimes if I am eating an apple or banana and she is staring at it I will put the fruit up to her mouth and let her suck on the juice a little. She loves it. Anyway, I got some organic brown rice cereal and thought we would give it a shot. If anything I thought that Eric would want to be a part of this "milestone" and since we will be gone for a while we might as well get some practice in with him.



She did okay but she didn't love it. She was more interested in the spoon. I gave it to her a couple of times and she shoved it in her mouth and gagged on it so we still have to work on that some more.

Now, on to the craziest madness of all...NCAA basketball March Madness! Our brackets are pretty much pointless now but there have been some pretty awesome games. It was fun to watch the BYU/Florida game. That day I had sent some mild trash talking emails to my old coworkers. We had watched last year's tournament game at the office when BYU beat Florida in overtime and I was hoping for a repeat but I guess it wasn't meant to be.