What I Love About You...24 Weeks

24 Weeks

January 14, 2010

I love....

-watching you play and playing with you. You really laugh hard at many things now and you get Mommy and Daddy laughing too! You are such a happy baby and we have so much fun!

Caroline says, "I will win this staring contest!"

-seeing how big you are getting! You act like you have been sitting up your whole life and you only started a couple of weeks before this picture was taken!

-seeing you use your teething toys that we have had for you for a while, but you weren't interested in them until now.

-how you look like you are so ready to eat that chocolate, but it will be a WHILE before you have any!

-LOVE, LOVE holding you while you are sleeping! You just melt my heart and I feel like you melt into my arms when you fall asleep in them!

-watching you try to catch the light from Daddy's headlamp. You just couldn't figure out why the light kept moving on you!

Too cute!

-you loving on me! You are such a sweet, good baby!

-watching you surrounded by the many toys you have. You defitnitely aren't hurting for entertainment!

-watching you play with your spoon we bought you. You LOVE chewing on this spoon!

-how you sink into the hole by Daddy while sitting by him and playing. You look too cute all sucked in there.

-how stinkin' cute you are!

-how you love your baths! You really love taking a bath. I can never say that enough! This is your new Primo Eurobath that your Grammy and Pops got you. I love this bath because it is made for you to be able to sit up easily and it saves on water too. ;) If I had had it when you were a tiny baby, I could have used it then too. It's very versatile!

Caroline's First Cereal

February 5, 2010

Caroline is 6 months and 6 days old today!

I finally gave up and gave her her first cereal. She has only had breastmilk up until this point which I am very proud of! All 15 pounds 12 ounces of my little girl is ME!

I fixed what I thought was way too much cereal, but Caroline ate it ALL and when the spoon stopped coming...she fussed because she wanted more! She really liked her cereal and wasn't very messy with it yet. I couldn't get the spoon to her mouth fast enough. She was leaning towards me out of her chair trying to get it. I'm SO glad she enjoyed it!

I am getting more excited about the foods that she will be sampling over the next weeks/months. She is such a big girl! I just can't believe it is time for solids!

This first picture is just after her first bite. She wasn't quite sure what was going on just yet, but she caught on quickly!

Notice her leaning towards me in the picture. She was really trying to get her cereal!

So good at eating already!

Ready and waiting!

Empty Bowl, Full Belly, Big Girl!

Don't miss the video below!

You're just like your Nonna and your Mommy!

I went in on January 16 to get Caroline up from her nap and below is a video I took of her. I couldn't believe it! She is making the same exact sound that my Mom (Nonna) and I make while we sleep. It's so sweet to see traits that she has picked up from her family!

Caroline's First Snow II

Our Street

Ready to head out into the snow!

So cute! Caroline loved the snow!

Our House

Red cheeks after some fun time in the snow!

Caroline's First Snow!

We were starting to get Caroline ready for bed and looked out the window to see the snow had started! We took her out for her first look at snow!



I think she didn't know what was going on at first, but then......

I think she LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!!

We will be going out in it with her again tomorrow! Look for more pictures!

What I Love About You...23 Weeks

23 Weeks

January 7, 2010

I Love...

-how good you were on New Year's Eve at a party at our Sunday School Teacher's house. We had so much fun, but we didn't stay late. You're a little too young for that just yet!

With Mr. David

With Mrs. Melanie

-seeing you snuggling with your Daddy in the bed. I see you trying to sneakily get the remote!

-how good you were at the adults only party with one of the Sunday School classes at church. They told us it would be fine to bring you. Most people didn't even know you were there because you were so quiet!

You played with the white elephant gift Daddy ended up with for a while. You are fascinated with the simplest things these days!

-you, my sweet, baby girl! Notice your bib that says "Brand New Baby, Brand New Year"! I'm so glad you are here!!!!!!!!!!!

-your HUGE, super cute, gummy smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-seeing you in all the super cute positions you like to be in. I have no idea why you like so many weird positions, but it doesn't matter, it's so cute!

-how easily you are entertained. You are such a good and happy baby. I love being your Mommy!

-you "maxin' and relaxin' " while playing with your toys. You just look so comfortable in this picture!

-you "drinking" Daddy's soda. This picture completely cracks me up because it looks like you are drinking the soda, but there's no way we would let you do that yet!

-you standing up. You are becoming such a big girl and you will stand up balanced on something for a little bit before you start to fall over. What happened to my tiny girl that relied on Momma for everything?

-how you love the new toy Aunt Carrie gave you. Of course, as you can see in this picture, you really love tags more than the toys sometimes.

-that you are such a great sleeper!!! You sleep between 11 and 12 hours every night and 3 - 4 hours total in naps during the day. I am so thankful!

-to see you fascinated with our computer. You have your own (picture below), but you just love Mommy and Daddy's!

-your "God's Child" paci. There's your new laptop too. You enjoy playing with it!

-how you love to play with paper much more than your toys sometimes. It's so funny!

-seeing you with your "adoptive brothers and sisters". We had a great time when we had our Christmas celebration with the Murrays. It was a blast!

With Graycen

With MaryEvelyn

With Cooper

With Ella

With Annagail

-seeing you sit in a shopping cart for the first time! Since you are sitting up, it was time to try you in a shopping cart. You did really well and I think you enjoyed it pretty well!

-watching you sleep! I say it all the time, but it's so amazing to watch you slumbering away. It's even more wonderful to hold you while you sleep! I love you!

-you in your Alabama outfit. This is the night Alabama won the SEC Championship! You love football already. Roll Tide!

-your necklace Daddy made you. You thought it was pretty cool!

-the joy that you exhibit when you are taking a bath! It's so much fun to play with you!

-you!

A Little Jaw Flappin'

I wanted to share with all of you Caroline's new favorite thing to do! It makes me laugh out loud when she does it. I just love it!