Trouble!

I know I've said this before, but Caroline is getting into everything!! She loves to find a basket of stuff and pull everything out! She has such a cute little personality and I'm constantly grabbing the camera to catch her in the act. Here's some proof!

Quick update: Caroline weighs 20 lbs now and my arms are getting a serious workout everyday! She is saying "doggie" (still no mama), dancing when one of her toys plays a song (basically bouncing up and down) and trying to clap (putting her hands together and looking at them as if they will clap by themselves!). She is such a happy baby and giggles at everything!

Bath Time!!

Caroline LOVES her bath time! She splashes and laughs and has a great time. One of her first bath toys was a little yellow fish that squeaks when you squeeze it. It's still her favorite, but now she holds it in her mouth so that she can have her hands free to splash. It is so funny to watch! She also loves when I put some bubbles in the tub and tries to eat them.

We've come a long way! At one week old, she wasn't much of a fan of bath time!!

Meeting Santa

On Sunday afternoon we went to the Operations Group Children's Christmas Party. Even though Caroline is way to young to enjoy the activities, or even remember it, I wanted to get her picture with Santa. The party is really fun for the older kids. Santa arrives in an F-16 (he almost fell trying to climb out!!) and hands out toys to all the kids, there is a bouncy castle, games, cookie decorating, etc. I volunteered at one of the activities and Sean took care of Caroline. Even though she couldn't participate much, she really enjoyed watching the kids run around on sugar highs.

Caroline's first meeting with Santa went pretty well. First she smiled at him and sat in his lap for a few minutes. Then she decided that she'd had enough, started crying, and reached up to Daddy hoping he'd rescue her. I was a bad mommy, and laughed and took pictures of her crying. I know she'll enjoy looking at them one day!!!

Getting into everything!

Caroline recently discovered that there are more interesting things outside of the living room (which is where we usually play). So she has been exploring as much of the house on her hands and knees as she can. I finally baby-proofed most of it and closed the doors to the rest. It's fun to watch her check it all out. Today she crawled over to the front door, looked around, and was like "cool". Then crawled away. Atleast, in my mind that is what she was thinking :) Here are some pictures of her adventures.

Let me in!

Just visiting the dogs!

This next one is so funny! Tonight I was sitting on the couch trying to take a couple quick bites of my dinner in between feeding Caroline and getting her ready for bed. I looked over and saw this...

I still crack up when I look at it! Guess you had to be there :) (Ignore my dusty picture frame, gross!!)

Caroline Update

WOW! Caroline has grown SO MUCH in the last month! She turns 9 months on Dec 13th, but so many changes have happened lately I felt the need to give you an update a few days early!

When we left for Thanksgiving Caroline had three teeth, she now has SEVEN!! She cut three of them during the week of Thanksgiving alone! I think she's working on an eighth too!

On Nov 24th she officially crawled for the first time! Gigi Penrod and I were the only ones to witness! Unfortunately, we traumatized Caroline by clapping, cheering and jumping up and down, and she immediately started crying. It took her a while to do it again, and when she finally did she stopped and looked at us to see what we would do. Now, she is crawling all over our house and getting into everything!

Caroline now weighs 19 1/2 pounds! She is eating more and more finger foods: (all of these torn into little pieces) grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken, pancakes, toast, pasta, etc. Recently, I made beef stroganoff and pureed it a little and she LOVED IT! Gigi Penrod gave us a great book called "100 Top Baby Purees". It is divided by age, and the last stage, 9-12 months, isn't actually pureed. It's more soft foods like pasta and rice dishes. It's really inspired me to expand Caroline's diet (hence the introduction of beef stroganoff). Yesterday, I made a mango and yogurt recipe from the book and she loved it! I even had a little taste and it was yummy! I think Caroline eats better than Sean and I!

On a not so exciting note, Caroline has her first official cold! I thought it was just teething, but she's been very congested, snotty (yuk) and fussy. Maybe it is the tooth, but she's never felt this bad before. I feel so bad for her! (and us, she isn't sleeping well at all!!)

Here are some pictures of our BIG baby!

Getting into trouble. You don't have to just sit in the exersaucer to have fun!

Then she got stuck and it wasn't so fun anymore!

Showing dada her new lovey..a sweet little lamb. She holds this when I'm rocking her to sleep, and sometimes cuddles it while she sleeps. So sweet!

Thanksgiving!

We had an AWESOME Thanksgiving in San Antonio with Sean's parents! It was a much needed vacation and it was great to spend time with family!