4 Months down...

So once again we reach the 22nd of the month and I realize how much has happened in the last month. It seems like Caitlyn learns something new everyday, then moves on the another adventure. She is seriously the most curious child that I have ever known. All she wants to do it moves and explore and figure out this new world that she is in.

In the last month she has continued to babble on and now she talks to her self while she is sleeping! She discovered her tongue and how to stick it out and now she makes noises while sticking it out. She has just started to click with her mouth. I don't think that she knows exactly what she is doing but she will copy me sometimes.

She is finally almost big enough for her jumperoo, her toes touch the floor so we put her in it and she loves it most of the time. She rolls from her back to her stomach and back again on both sides, which is good and bad, like when she is trying to sleep and she rolls into the side of the crib.

She can see further now and she looks when you come in the room or say her name and just starts smiling. Oh, and she has started taking out her Binky from her mouth and trying to put it back in , she makes it in her mouth about 1 in 10 times, it is always funny to watch her try! She is so much fun and she makes me laugh everyday!

New Discovery

So Caitlyn's new discovery for last week was her tongue. She was fascinated by it and the fact that she could stick it out. It was her way of saying hello and smiling. Every time I would go pick her up from her crib she wouldn't smile, just stick out her tongue, she is a crazy one. But just like all the other new things she learns, she is over it all ready. In the time it took me to get the pictures on the computer and then on the blog she has moved onto new adventures like rolling over on her left side, she all ready conquered the right side a couple of weeks ago, she has a very short attention span which we blame on her Daddy!!

Blessing

So yesterday was finally the day that our little Caitlyn got blessed. It was a little delayed due to her cousins blessing and other things. It was a great day and Mike did a wonderful job at the blessing. We were both a little nervous that she might have one of her melt downs during the middle, but nothing, she just stared at all the people holding her and didn't make a peep! Then I broke down and did the cliche mom bearing her testimony, I had too. I now realize why all moms do it. The spirit was so strong and I realize just how much I had to be grateful for. I even broke down and cried, Mike laughed at me because I said I wasn't going to do it, but I did and it was great!! I didn't get any good pictures of her because she was so tired after church. I should have realized and taken them before, now I know for next time. Any how I am probably going to just dress her up again in the next week and take more pictures, it counts all the same!!

2007

This year has been quite the adventure, mainly focused around our little angel. We found out I was pregnant is January and then the year focused all around her! I got to retire in June and hopefully I won't have to go back to work for a very long time!

Life will never be the same for Mike and I, and that is a very good thing. Cailtyn is challenging and frustrating at times, like when she won't sleep and eat (which is everyday). Yet, I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world! Next year will be full of more firsts in her life and ours and we are excited to see what each new day will bring!

I am reminded everyday how blessed we are to be able to help this little spirit through this life. It's a very daunting and overwhelming task, but it has many more ups than downs.

3 Months

So we made it to 3 months and we are all still alive and semi awake! It really is crazy how time goes by so fast. Caitlyn and I pretty much do the same thing everyday and you would think that time would go very very slow that way, but it doesn't. She is growing up so much! She has started babbling and I swear that most of the time she is telling me off and talking back all ready! I will do something that she doesn't like and then she will proceed to babble on and on in a matter of fact tone! She is still the most opinionated, stubborn, and most loved baby that I know!! My world wouldn't be nearly as complete without her in it and I am reminded every day how blessed Mike and I are to have her in our lives and be entrusted to take care of her!! I almost forgot, Caitlyn laughed for the first time last week. It was great and Mike was there to hear it and it made the day worthwhile!

Let it snow...

In the last two weeks we have had two big storms that have left a ton of snow in our yard! Mike wanted to take Caitlyn out to build a snowman, but she is a little young for that. So he just held her and I took a picture. She didn't seem to like to snowflakes to much when they landed on her face, she doesn't like that wind either!

The other pictures are of us singing her favorite song, "once there was a snowman...tall tall tall, in the sun he melted...small small small." She doesn't like the small part to much because she hates laying down! She always has to be sitting or standing, she's only 12 weeks old and all ready very opinionated!!!!

Bubbles

So like a new mom I always think that my baby is doing the cutest things all of the time. About 2 weeks ago Caitlyn started blowing bubbles with her mouth. I thought that it was so cute and that she was the smartest baby in the world. Now she just drools everywhere and I realize that it's not as cute and that every baby does it. But I still think that she is the cutest baby around!!!