Lunch Date!

On Good Friday, Morgan Kate and Caroline had lunch plans! They ate a very good lunch at Nick's House of Pizza in West Columbia and they invited their mommy's and Raven to join them!
These precious babies enjoyed each other too! I am so thankful for good friends and its great having our children be friends too!

Bumping Up and Down In My Little Red Wagon!

Caroline's Pops and Grand bought her a wagon for Christmas! I could not wait until spring until she could go for a ride in her new wagon! She had a great time riding in her new wagon and we had a great time watching her enjoy her new "car"!

Like any new "car" you want to check out all the

parts!

Hey, I'm ready to go!

I really do like it! My mommy was wanting daddy to stop

the wagon so she could take my picture! I was ready to go!

Are you having fun, little girl!

Me in my fast "car"!

I like it!

She loves turning around in her new wagon!

We are so happy that you are so happy about your first ride in your

        new red "car"!!

Here's Caroline's First Birthday Slideshow! Enjoy!

Before playing slideshow you will need to mute the music that the blog automatically loads to. You will need to scroll down until you see my music playlist and then mute it.

What's this very precious little girl up to...

I've been meaning to post these things about Caroline ever since her 12 month well baby visit but as of right now here's the latest...by the numbers!

365+ is the number of days where my life has been sweetly changed by our Sweet Caroline!

41 Is the number of hairbows that little girl has. We've misplaced a couple that I know about, but it looks like we aren't lacking in the accessory department for hairbows! I love having Caroline wear hairbows!

29.75 is her height! She's in the 75th percentile for her height! Tall girl?

19.2 Is what little girl weighs! She's in the 25th percentile for her weight! She doesn't have the weight yet to be in a big girl carseat but we're going to buy one on Thursday!

17.25 is her head circumference. (Didn't get the percentile for this).

12+ I have had the opportunity of breastfeeding her for this long! We are down to two feedings a day. I think this was one of the best things that I could possibly do for her and I have enjoyed it! I'm going to miss our time together when she's finished :(. 

12 this is how many hours of sleep she will sleep on the weekends! During the week I wake her up at 5:30 am but as soon as she's in the car going to Ms. Leah's she's sound asleep again.

9 is the number of pairs of shoes she has and one pair of these is bedroom slippers! I do not think that this is a lot of shoes for a baby and we've run into some issues in the shoe department. Everytime we go to Stride Rite they don't have her shoe size in the shoes that we want/need her to have. Tennis shoes are a must have but try finding them in a size 3 and that are cute, New Balance makes a cute gray shoe but can't find it in her size! We are trying to find her a walking shoe without it being the traditional walker but it looks like we're going to have to go that route! Any suggestions in this area would be much appreciated!!

8 is the number of words she can currently say: Da Da, Daddy, Ma Ma, Thank You (in some form when we give her, her sippy cup), Hi, E-I-E-I-O, Yay, and Uh-oh!

7 is the number of times she's been sick in her first year. 5 ear infections, 1 virus..she only ran a fever, but it lasted 3 days, and 1 sinus infecion.

4 teeth! She also has two new ones coming in so technically she has 6 but you can CLEARLY see 4 little chicklets!

3 is the number of steps she's taken as this post is being written and it is also her shoe size!

2 is the number of naps she still takes a day...but mostly for Ms. Leah.

1 would be the number of naps she takes for me on the weekends or even during the week if I'm not at work!

0 is the number of days that we've been without her! Her aunt Rhonda can't wait until she spends the night at her house for the first time without her mommy and daddy!


Little girls loves to:
Give her mommy and daddy tons of hugs! I absolutely love when I pick Caroline up and how she just squeezes my neck with both arms so super tight! This is the best!

Play peek-a-boo! She now uses her hands to hide her face but she still loves playing the game with blankets, towels, sheets, etc! She is so funny when she plays peek-a-boo! She knows she is quite the entertainer when it comes to playing this fun game!

Walk behind her walk behind toys: her lawn mower, her vacuum cleaner, and her sing along walk behind toy! When she runs into something she still tries to make it "go"! She grunts to try to move it and I love how she figures it all out to try and "go" again!

Be determined! She never gives up easily! She tries and tries to get things just right...sounds just like her mommy, uh-oh!

Eat mac-n-cheese, green beans, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, squash, biscuits, french fries, mini vanilla wafers, saltine crackers, baby yogurt, yogurt melts, puffs, baby goldfish, teddy grahams, applesauce, rice cereal, peaches, any baby food dessert, and pink lady apples. She is not so sure about bananas and ground beef yet, but she does like pork chops when  I shake and bake them!

Drink applejuice and milk!

Play cause and effect games like throwing her paci and sippy cup to see if we're going to pick them up and give them back to her. The effect is she usually gets them back!

Read the pictures of her books and be read to! Her favorite book is this Sesame Street book with big bird on the front (probably because she can put it in her mouth and it feels good to those teeth that are coming in), and the second is this felt book that has a pig on the front.

Crawl up the stairs! She is fast as lightning. In the blink of an eye she can already be at the top of them. Gates are being bought tomorrow.

Be chased.

Stand up! It's so funny to watch her scoot when she's trying to stand up. She does this little bouncey thing with her bottom and then TA-DA she's standing! She also loves to stand up on all fours. She looks like a monkey when she does this!

Laugh, babble, squeal, and talk gibberish. I sure wish I knew the Gibberish language!

Cuddle and hold her stuffed Baby Gund Lamb that we named Lambey! I found her twice today in her exersaucer watching Nick, Jr. with her arms holding Lambey while her head was resting on him! She just gave me this big ole smile when I went to check on her and found her this way!

Splish and Splash in her big bathtub! She especially likes to lie on her belly with her face in the water! This can be very good and very bad, but its great that she doesn't fear water! She also enjoys her bath toy friends!

Be outside! She loves the wind blowing on her, the grass beneath her feet, and the sand and leaves she gets to eat! She loves playing with her friends outside at Ms. Leah's!

Be strolled in her stroller or wagon! She thinks that as long as she's moving in one or the other life is good! When we stop to shop or talk to someone she tries to make it go forward by leaning forward and pushing. She also believes that talking while doing this will get the stroller or wagon going again!

Take her shoes off (like in the picture that I posted with this post) of her feet and her bows out of hair. When they are off and out then she'll sling them somewhere and we end up losing them. This is how we are down to nine pairs of shoes! Losing the hairbows is my fault. I clip them to the sides of her diaper bag and then they come off in the shuffle.

Bebop to music! She loves when her toys play music and she loves when she listens to "her" music on the cd player in the car! This is great that she loves music! I want her to take dance when she's older just like I did and I'm sure her daddy would be thrilled if she had a singing voice just like him!

Clap her hands to anything and everything! When we are singing "If you're happy and you know it", she'll grab my hands and clap them together too! She will also just clap to well just clap!

Sit on your lap! She likes to play games like peek-a-boo, read books, and for us to sing to her!

Be rocked! I always heard that if you choose to rock a baby to sleep then when she's two she won't know how to put herself to sleep. I don't believe that this is absolute. I was rocked as a baby and even as a child (when daddy would read books to my twin sister and me). This may be why C won't take naps for me in the afternoons or on the weekends much, but today I put her in her crib and yes, she cried but it was short lived and she put herself right on down to sleep! So I'm all about rocking my baby to sleep!

Play with her friends at playdates, birthday parties, or at Ms. Leah's. She's so gentle with her friends (well when she's not pulling their hair for their attention). She likes to look at, play with, and talk to babies that are her same size. It's so funny to see the friends laugh and squeal at each other and to watch how they watch each other. She also notices older children too and she loves when they notice her back!

Roll her hot pink ball! When she tries to hit it back at you...it's just the cutest thing ever. She'll hit it with all her might and it might only go an inch or two but she thinks she's doing something big and then she'll just laugh and laugh. Then when it's your turn to hit it back to her she'll just wait and bounce in her little spot for the ball. I love how happy she is!

Play with paper, (she's even tried eating a few pieces of mail, magazines, and sales papers), boxes (diaper, wipe, and cardboard boxes), bags or anything that crinkles for that matter. We have a house full of toys but she'd rather play with JUNK!

Sit and stand in her favorite spots around the house! I blogged about this already! But some of her favorite places to stand are in front of the fridge, beside the highchair (literally beside it and when she's sitting in it), in front of the glass door in our dining rooom so she can look outside (its funny to watch her hold the curtain back as she looks), and up under the dining room and kitchen tables. She likes to sit underneath our coffee table, end table, exersaucer, and dining room chairs. Her new favorite place to sit is under the kitchen table!

Juke when music is playing!

Have her pap pap in her mouth! This helps calm her down when she's excited and it also helps her to go to sleep. It even stops her from eating leaves, grass, and whatever yard trash she can find to put in her mouth!

Have fun!!

March 29, 2010

This was Caroline's Birthday! She woke us up and we sang to her and then we headed downstairs so she could open her presents. It was a lot of fun having her Aunt Rhonda and cousins Courtney and Kelsey to share the day with us! (We do have videos of her first year but we've never posted them because somehow we lost the cord that connects to the computer. We've since bought a new one but we are in the process of transferring the videos to cd's and its all in real time, which means its going to take forever to get them all on cd's. Needless to say when this process is complete we're buying a new video camera..our current one is not even that old, but we want one that records on a memory card).

Here's our little girl on her first birthday!

She loved opening her presents! The paper

was more fun than the gift!

You are too funny little girl!

I am going to like my choo choo train!

Look at her face!

Happy girl!

OH!

You sweet baby girl!

She absolutely loves this vacuum cleaner!

Trying to let her tongue figure it all out!

Eating my very first happy meal at McDonald's!

What is it?

Caroline is very happy but occasionally she

will cry, but only for a half second!

Yum! Yum! Yum!

Are you stressed on your birthday! No, you're

wanting to play peek-a-boo!

Love all of your funny faces!

Mmmm mama this is good!

Thinking with our tongue again!

I can eat these all day!

After my happy meal my cousins took me to play!

She wasn't real sure about this but she did it!

Then on to the zoo!

Look at Courtney and Kelsey! I had no idea they

were even in the picture! They are too funny with their

glasses and their poses!

Mommy and her favorite girl!

Our little family!

Courtney took her in to look at the Lorikeet's! She

loved it!

We wanted one to land on her arm so bad!

The flowers were gorgeous! So is our little one!

Aw!

Little girl loves her girls!

I think Caroline had a very happy first birthday!

It was a day that I willalways cherish just like the

day she was born! We are so blessed to have

her and thankful for the opportunity of

being this little girl's parents! I just don't

know how to thank God more for her!

Happy Easter!

We had a lot of fun yesterday watching Caroline depict her Easter basket! She liked the grass and eggs more than the book, bunny, and animal crackers that we got for her! Since this is her second Easter (yes can't believe we're already doing seconds already), I've also posted my favorite Easter picture from last year..her very first Easter!

She's pulling out the grass and eggs! Never minding

the goodies!

She has the funniest facical expressions!

Happy Easter baby!

Everything must go in the mouth! Tastey or not!

Still liking the grass!

So do you like what the Easter bunny brought you?

Last year she was two weeks old at Easter

 and I completely forgot to get her a basket

for Easter or anything else for that matter! I

promised myself that I would never be

so forgetful again! Her Aunt Rhonda and

Uncle D, however, brought her an Easter basket

last year filled with goodies!

Our little family! She is sockless because we

lost one of her frill socks at church!

We took her outside to take pictures and brought

along her basket so she could play with it!

The pictures, the weather, and the colorful

eggs were very exciting to her...

but I believe the grass was more fun!

Look at this cute pie! This is my favorite picture

from this year and this is my....

most favorite from last year!