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| Happy Birthday, Caroline!! |
Happy Birthday to my sweet baby girl! I love you so much and I'm so very thankful for your smile and silly laugh. I love waking up to a happy silly baby every morning. It is so amazing to look back over the past year and realize all that you have accomplished! Your Daddy and I are extremely proud.
You love to explore, crawl and pull up on everything. You turn chairs and boxes to walkers. Last week you crawled from my room to the kitchen next to your highchair when I turned away... I think you were really hungry. You've been trying to chase Jackson but he is too fast for you. You absolutely love to laugh and giggle.
Caroline enjoyed celebrating with family and a few friends. She wanted me to hold her for the first 30 minutes of the party but she really warmed up! She enjoyed her cupcake but was much happier with a cracker and yogurt. I gave her a bite of my chocolate cupcake and I think she preferred it to her vanilla!
Here are some pictures (Papa and Poppi were camera shy)! Ryan and I are so very grateful for everyone's help with the party!!
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| Yummy Cupcakes! |
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| Happy Birthday! |
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| Bubba and Boo! |
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| Gigi! |
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| My sweet nurse, Krysti, and her beautiful daughter, Madison. |
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| Caroline's sweet nurse, Meghan! |
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| BFF, Quinn! |
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| Aunt Kim - It was her birthday too! |
The last few weeks have been full of fun!! We spent some time in Laguna Beach celebrating GiGi's, (Ryan's mom) birthday. The day before we left Caroline got her first ear infection... Thankfully, she was awesome on the plane and slept most of the time. Caroline loved the beautiful cool weather and hanging out with her sweet cousins!! She really enjoyed exploring the amazing house we stayed in. We even spotted a tooth... but it has not come out yet.
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| Mark, Nicole, Caroline and Luke |
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| Sleeping on the plane |
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| Family Pic in California |
After Laguan Beach, we headed to Galveston for the week with my family. Caroline had her first girls trip. It was just Aunt Em, Nonnie (my mom), Caroline and me for the first part of the week - the boys met us for the weekend. Caroline loved eating the sand and finally mastered sitting (First week of August 2011)!!!! While Uncle Patrick was taking some pictures of Caroline we saw her stand by herself for a few seconds.
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| Beach Bum! |
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| Caroline loves sand! |
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| Yeah vacation time! |
I was a little worried about being back home because Caroline really loves her beach naps.
Caroline has really started babbling. In fact, after her speech therapist was here at the end of July she master her ba ba ba. She stayed up late with Daddy and surprised me when I got home from a night out. Here is a video... it's way past her bedtime but she was determined to babble.
Caroline has been improving on feeding herself and eating big girl food. She really likes cheese toast, pasta, cream cheese and crackers, turkey deli meat, Pirates Booty cheese puffs, granola bars, nilla wafers and yogurt. We actually have to hide the yogurt if we want her to eat anything else. She has started shaking her head "no" and blowing raspberries when she is finished eating or does not like the food we are feeding her.
Tomorrow is her appointment so we will update with all her stats... Last week she weighed 13 lbs 14 ounces and was 25 inches.
She is an absolute DOLL! I love her!! I'm also cracking up that her and Lana do such similar things (shaking their heads and a yogurt obsession). I'm so glad to see how well she is progressing!!
ReplyDeletelooks like a good time was had by all! so glad that you all got to enjoy such a marvelous celebration! continued birthday blessings to little miss caroline!
ReplyDeletepraise God from Whom all blessings flow!
xoxo,
(great aunt) nancy :-)