Beautiful Baby Blues

Love these beautiful eyes!!

Look What I Can Do!!

Seven Months Old

Yes, I totally forgot to post a six month old picture and update, but we were leaving for vacation and came back to school starting and an event at church and things just got crazy and before I knew it, it was almost time for the seven month picture. Can you believe this year only has three more months in it? I even pulled out all my pumpkin decorations today (all three of them)!

Anyway, here is what little miss Caroline is doing at seven months old...

I can crawl pretty well now and I have started pulling up onto my knees, mommy and daddy had to lower my crib mattress because I like to pull up on the side of my crib.

I figured out how to sit without balancing on one arm, I'm pretty cool now and I can play with toys much easier now that both hands are free.

I like to eat pretty much anything I can get. I even got to try yogurt this month and I love it!

I'm still not the best sleeper. I always end up in mommy and daddy's bed and wake up a few times during the night. We're working on that (or so mommy says)...

I love to "play" with my brother and sister, they let me crawl all over them. I also like my superstar stage toy, my pink keys, anything that belongs to Timothy or Charlotte...

I love to take baths and I like to splash and kick in the water. On vacation, I loved to be in the pool!

I love to go to Bible class and I have lots of fun, my teachers say I smile and play and I don't cry much!

I'm such a happy girl and mommy and daddy love me so much!

First Day of School

I'm not sure how we got here so fast, but today was Timothy's first day of Kindergarten! He's in the afternoon class at Edgerton Elementary and as of the end of the today he says he likes it! I got information about his day bit by bit tonight...I heard that he played on playground and they had a cool spinning thing, he made two new friends, they read a book about monsters and he colored a picture of a monster (and later he told me what all the monsters in the book were doing) and that was all I got but I figure he's only there for a few hours so that's not too bad! As usual, his teacher told me he had some trouble keeping his hands to himself, but we're used to that so it's a normal battle for us each year. I'm hoping some changes we're making at home will help with that! I turned in our volunteer forms and PTA forms so we are all now official Edgerton Wolves!!

Vacation!

We were blessed this year to be able to go back to Gulf Shores, AL for vacation. It is our most favorite vacation spot and it was so nice to go with our whole family! We had a beautiful house that was more than large enough for 18 people (including 8 kids!), it was right on the beach, had a big pool and it was just awesome. Sunday we played on the beach and in the pool and started the week off right having to call a tow truck to pull the rental car out of the sand (seriously, they only rocked one side of the driveway and someone thought that our rental Ford Expedition could drive through the sand but it didn't quite work out). Monday we played on the beach and in the pool some more and played putt putt. Tuesday we (translation - me) were a little sunburned so we didn't spend as much time on the beach and we drive over to Pensacola to meet Brandon's sister for dinner. Wednesday my brother and his family got there so there were even more kids to play with! My grandparents also drove in that night so while my mom and dad went to meet them for dinner the rest of us cooked out at the house and hung out. Thursday we spent the morning and afternoon with my mom's parents and her sister and her husband. Most of the family went fishing that morning so we grilled out fish that night (I ate pizza) and then Friday we did our traditional Grammy Grumpy Games and took family pictures. Saturday we sadly had to go home but after such a busy week it was nice to be back in our own house! We had such a great time at the beach though and Brandon's already trying to figure out when we can go back! Thanks mom and dad for such a great week!! We all love you both so much!!

Happy Birthday Charlotte

We've had a lot going on in the past few weeks so I'm going to try to get these done in order...I also posted all the pictures from everything on facebook, so I'll probably only put a few on here.

Charlotte turned 3 a few weeks ago, she's growing up so fast, I still think of her as a baby but she reminds me every day that she's growing into a big girl! At her three year check up, she was 39.5 inches tall and 34.5 pounds. She's a big tall girl and it's hard to find clothes to fit her since she's so tall and skinny! She's just getting into a 4T now and she wears size 10 shoes.

At 3 years old, she LOVES to "read" books! She isn't real big on crowds, she doesn't even like to spend too much time with her family and I'll notice that after she's been with us for a while she'll sneak upstairs and I'll find her sitting in her room reading all her favorite books. She's definitely different than Timothy was at the same age. She still doesn't like to cuddle much so I cherish it when she wants a hug or wants to sit in my lap. She is incredibly independant! She is also incredibly girly! She loves all things pink and purple, she loves to wear dresses and jewelry, she loves baby dolls and barbies and princesses, she's so prissy! I absolutely love it, she really is everything I dreamed of when I found out I was having a daughter. She is so much like me sometimes that it scares me! She looks like her daddy, she has his eyes and I love keeping her hair and bangs short. She's a very picky eater and pretty much lives off of chocolate milk, we're going to try and break that habit soon. She is by far our best sleeper and always has been. As long as she has her blankie and her thumb (and lately her Jessie doll), she is good to go. She definitely keeps up on our toes and we love her so very very much!

Stats

Caroline had her check up last week, I know she isn't technically 6 months yet, but they schedule the well child checks with the classes, so we had it done. She came in at 16 pounds, 5 ounces and 26.5 inches which makes her our smallest six month old. She was "crawling" (scooting, really) better than some of the other babies, but not quite sitting up by herself yet. Hopefully I'll get her six month picture up before we leave on vacation. I also forgot to report at her last visit that the doctors heard a heart murmur so we had to go to a pediatric cardio specialist and they spent forever mapping out her heart and doing an ultrasound but it turned out to be fine. The doctor said at her check up this month that, if he didn't know she already had it, he wouldn't have even heard it. She's growing right on track though, doing well. Things are finally slowing down a bit for us, VBS is over so that's been a HUGE relief! We have just under two weeks till we leave for the beach and then when get back, Timothy starts KINDERGARTEN!!! I'll try to get some pictures on later this week from Charlotte's birthday party, still can't believe she's going to be 3!