Boyfriend

So it seems that Caitlyn all ready has a crush on a boy. This doesn't make her dad very happy because he is supposed to be the only man in her life until she is at least 30 or so and then maybe she can date, but that is still debatable. She gives him bigger smiles than her dad. So her new boyfriend comes from her favorite movie, of course. She smiles so big every time his solo song Bet on It comes on. And as you can see she is sitting up on her own, she started doing it really well about a week ago, she still takes a face plant every once in awhile!! If you click on the picture you can see how big her smile is.

6 MONTHS

Wow! Our little baby is a whole half a year old!! I only wish that the time went by this fast while I was pregnant, that seemed to take forever! Now it seems that time is going by way to fast and that she is growing up too quickly for me. Life has been entertaining and tiring here in the Richards home. That is mostly due to the ever changing world of our little Caitlyn Roo! She is such a little sweatheart and stinker all rolled up into one irresistibly entertaining girl. Here are some more pictures! I apologize for the excessive amount of pictures in her diaper. I am the crazy mom that always has to have her dressed. But, lately all the pictures take place in her diaper because she has to eat naked since she makes such a mess and she likes to scoot around and try to crawl without clothes because clothes make her knees slide out from under her!!


She likes to drink from the sippy cup and gets really excited and crossed eyed all the time from trying to look at the cup. She also gets really excited to be up on her hands and knees.

So jealous that she can do the plank position! I sure can't. She is getting so good at hoping onto her knees, then she pushes up into this pike position. She hasn't figured out how to move her arms yet and usually ends up taking a face plant in to the carpet!

She has now graduated to the duck bath and she loves it. She just lounges around and trys to flip onto her stomach, fun and relaxing for her, not so much for me!! She all ready has the mischievous look down!

We took Caitlyn to the park for the first time since it got semi warm, around 40 or so. I felt like I was back at BYU and at the first sign of warm weather everyone is hanging out in their shorts outside playing Frisbee, laying out and trying to get a tan, now I am part of the Spring Fever crowd!! Caitlyn loves the swing, I know she looks funny in the hat but it was the only thing I could do to keep the sun out of her eyes because she hates having the sun in her eyes!

All for Caitlyn

Mike once again requested more pictures of his little girl since he has hard days at work now and she is one thing that makes him smile. So this week I have been a little out of it on the blog thing since I didn't have a computer most of the time. See, I used to have a computer room and a craft room, not that I am very crafty but it was fun to say that I had one. Now we had to combined the two rooms since we are making the craft room into Caitlyn's play room. Since we have all ready seen how destructive Caitlyn can be, we can only imagine the messes she will get into when she can crawl and walk. So, we are giving her a whole room to do what ever she would like in and then barricading her from the rest of the house!! We think that it will work for about a week until she figures out how to get around the gates! So that has been my fun week of painting and organizing and all the fun stuff that goes along with that, all for Caitlyn. Next month we have to start fixing the actual play room, unless she starts crawling in the next week or so, which is always possible with her. So here are some fun pictures from the last week or so:


Caitlyn has a new toy, thanks to her Dad. He took a box and hooked a rope to it, actually a ghetto extension cord, and a blanket and pulls her around in it! She loves it more than all her other expensive toys!

So this is how my little girl sleeps every night! Seriously! I haven't been able to get a picture in the act but the other night we were getting her ready for bed and she was rolling around and this is what she did! I put her to sleep on her back but she always ends up like this, on the other side of the crib too!! She is a crazy one!

She's just chillin' watching her favorite show, High School Musical 2!

She loves her Daddy, and they always seem to somehow have the same pose going on, it's not staged I promise!!!

She now loves to just open her mouth as wide as possible, which is pretty wide. That is how she smiles and laughs, I think it is pretty funny!

5 Months of Joy...

So here is my monthly update on who I consider the most beautiful baby in the world, but I am a little bias! I really can't believe that another month has passed allready, it is crazy. Caitlyn continues to amaze me everday with the new things that she learns how to do. Here she is sitting up:

It was only for a minute or two but it still counts! She continues to roll over and is starting to realize that she can roll back and sometimes she even hangs out on her side for a little while. Last night she actully started scooting herself along!! It was crazy, Mike was getting her ready for bad and she rolled over as usual and then she got up on her knees a little and pushed. She was so excited that she could actually move by herself. So we'll see how that goes in the next couple of weeks!!

So a little note about this last picture. Caitlyn loves music and she has discovered, thanks to her parents, High School Musical 2. We have it on Tivo so she can watch it all the time, so much fun for me. But her favorite part is the begininng of the Fabulous song and this is her face when it starts! She does it everytime, even when she is totally distracted by something else. I think it is so cute!!! Also today Caitlyn's cousin, Sadie, is going to be born. She probably is allready here but I haven't heard from Mary yet. The lucky girl got to have a planned C-Section so her birth should be quicker and less dramatic than Evan's!!

Wiggle Worm

So Mike told me to update the blog so that he can have new pictures of Caitlyn to look at. So since she has decided to take a two hour nap I have a little time to do so. The long naps are not something that she usually does! So a little fact about my sweet girl, all she wants to do in life is move! Seriously, since she was about 1 month old she has managed to wiggle herself around her crib even while swaddled. I would come in and find her on the other side of the crib all turned around. While this may seem like a cute thing, it causes many problems. Then at about 3 months she started rolling over onto her stomach which caused more problems. We had to take out her bumper so that she didn't suffocate on it, then we would find her with her arm suck in the crib slates and that didn't make her very happy. So no more cute crib we had to move her to the pack and play so she can't get stuck anywhere.

She's not as happy when she wakes up after sleeping on her stomach - notice the sleep lines on her face - Another time she was licking the mesh - Yummy!!!

New Addition to the Family...

I am so excited that we are finally done with the old, very old, Camry and have moved on to bigger and better things. Seriously the Camry was 11 years old, had survived my two brothers, mom and multiple others. When I say survived I mean barely, that poor car had been through so much and it showed. I wish I had a picture but the car is gone and I can't get one. All that needs to be said is that it had a gray stripe on the side from where my one brother wrecked the car and my other brother said that he could fix it for cheaper and never quite got around to painting it! But now we have a new Pilot and I am so excited! Caitlyn likes it too, it is so quiet and smooth that she falls asleep anytime we drive anywhere! It should be fun, my favortie part right now is the seat warmers because it is so cold here! Here's a picture:

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!