20 weeks old, and a sad milestone for daddy

Olivia at 20 weeks. She's getting downright HEAVY these days. She hasn't been weighed in a couple of weeks, but we're pretty sure she'll be over 15 pounds now. She's a Sack of Sugar. So sweet. Especially when she's asleep. Then her sack-o-sugarness is complete since she's limp in our arms.

But lately (in the last few days) she's been having periods of painful gas in the evenings, we think (hope) due to us eating tofu. It's been very difficult since there seems to be nothing we can do to ease her pain, so we just have to try to help her through it as best we can. But it's so hard to see (and hear!) her in such pain.

And the saddest thing of all for me as a dad is that tonight is the first night I need to be away from her (and Suzanne!) since they came home. I'm blogging right now from a hotel room in Venice where I'm staying for 3 nights at a meeting. It's hard on so many levels, from just missing them both, to feeling bad that I can't be there to help as I've been helping all along, and especially with her recent painful gassy episodes. But we've stopped eating tofu, and hopefully that helps. Unfortunatley she still had some pain this evening but Suzanne said it seemed less bad than previous nights and that it seemed shorter also, so we'll hope it's on its way out. I guess there are other things we'd miss more if we had to cut them out of our diet than tofu, but we _do_ like it.