Happy 2nd Birthday, Caroline!!

Happy Birthday, Caroline!

Happy 2nd Birthday!

We celebrated Caroline's second birthday this year with family and Elmo.  She was so excited and actually giddy about all the Elmo party food and spending time with her favorite people.  Seriously, who wouldn't be happy to be the center of attention?

Super excited!

Elmo Cupcakes or "cookies" as Caroline
calls them

Oscar vegetable tray and Elmo fruit tray

Poppi and GiGi!

Nonnie!

Big Pappa!

Uncle Packy!

Uncle Trey!

Aunt Emme and Uncle Jason!

Helping herself to a cookie

Eating an homemade Elmo cupcake

Caroline - You are such a silly little girl and you make your daddy and me laugh on a daily basis.  We continue to be so blessed by your amazing spirit and determination.  You have really taken off with communicating and learn new words daily. You love to tell everything bye bye and night night.  You take care of your stuffed animals - among your favorites are Elmo, Curly and Zoe.  In fact, you never leave Elmo.  You are very obsessed with trucks, airplanes, bracelets, purses, music and water.  You love your Little Gym class and try to swing from almost everything like it's a bar.  While we were at the doctor you started swinging from the desk.  

You are 31.5" tall and weigh 20 pound, 6 ounces.  This puts you at the 10 percentile in height and 0.33 percentile for weight.  We continue to work hard to find high calories foods that you like.  Last week, you had a physical therapy evaluation because you are still tippy toe walking and curling your right toes.  You are going to wear night braces on your feet and start weekly physical therapy.  The therapist is hopeful that this will make a big improvement. We continue to thank God and remind ourselves how lucky we are that you only have these small issues.

March for Babies

As some of you all probably know, Ryan, Caroline and I were the Ambassador Family for the March of Dimes March for Babies this year.   It was a neat opportunity to learn about the work March of Dimes does for babies born too early.  Caroline received surfactant therapy to help her lung development and the effectiveness of this therapy was discovered by March of Dimes grantees.  Most importantly, I learned that at any given time there is $9,000,000 in research money from March of Dimes in the Texas Medical Center.  For this reason, I am asking you to consider making a gift in support of March of Dimes.  As Ryan and I found out 20 months ago, prematurity affects all types of people… even moms with good prenatal care.

If you are interested in learning more, I’ve included a link to a podcast of a radio show that I was a guest speaker on before the walk.  Podcast

Here is a clip from KPRC the day of the walk.  Caroline made the news again.  KPRC News Clip

 Here is the link to Make a gift

Thank you so much for your support!

Happy 18 Months Caroline!

Caroline you are are so much fun and incredibly busy.  You absolutely love the park and cry when it's time to leave.  You are finally starting to gain weight (17 pounds, 4 ounces) and you got your first tooth (followed by 9 more!).  You've started talking more and love to roar like a lion and bark like you best friend Charlie, our dog.  

17 lbs 4 ounces!  

Playing in a fort under the coffee table

LOVE my bike and taking it to the park

Things get crazy when mom leaves town

Cowgirl!  Ready for the rodeo!

We celebrated your baptism with family on January 29, 2012.

You are wearing a dress worn by your Great Great Grandmother, Honey Grandy.

Here are some favorite videos of ours!

This is yesterday while Daddy was watering the tree.  You couldn't get in the water fast enough!

You love to wear my shoes and carry around purses.  

You and Charlie love each other!