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!