Grounded

Well, our Sweet Caroline may have a little TOO much personality. She decided that she wasn't sleepy last night right around midnight (when I had been in the bed for 1 1/2 hours). For the next three and a half hours, she had two diaper changes, nursed, had a bottle, rocked, played in my bed, cried in her bed (with my door and her door shut and a pillow over my head), sat in the living room and my room and her room, and yet did not go to sleep. She was fine as long as I was holding her! If I laid her in her bed, forget it. So, at 3:30 we went for a drive. Good ole' Port City sure is a different place at that time of night. We drove until she fell asleep, and then we drove some more. I was NOT taking any chances! Around 4:00, we went home and I put her (sleeping!) in her crib and crawled to my bedroom where Eric was happily snoring. My alarm went off less than 2 hours later. So, today I feel like I've been hit by a truck (and look like it too, no doubt). Meanwhile, Caroline's eyes were a bit puffy when she woke up again this morning, but I told her I didn't want to hear about it! Ha! I called and checked on her, and MeMaw Brenda said she's doing just fine. I'm glad to hear that, but I am going to bed EARLY tonight...and so is she , since she's GROUNDED. :)

Little Miss Personality~10 months!

Sweet Caroline turned ten months old on April 2nd! I CANNOT believe that much time has passed since we met our sweet girl. These pictures show her little personality pretty well. She is a sweet, smiley, happy girl, and we all love her! Her rocker is courtesy of Nan. She found it at an antique store, painted it, and reupholstered the seat to match Caroline's room. It is a treasure. Caroline thinks it's perfect!

Cheese! See my two teeth?! I have 5 now, including three on the top!

Modeling her Carter's (my absolute favorite baby store EVER!) Easter oufit. Nan found it when we went shopping during Spring Break...for less than $5! Woohoo! It has a bunny and an Easter egg on the left side. She also graduated to bigger bows this past week. She can now wear the ones with an alligator clip...although we are holding on to our collection of the itty bitty snap-clippies for now!

Sweetest girl in the world!

So happy!

She gets her eyebrow skills from her Grandad!

Cutie (monogrammed, of course!) booty

Precious profile

Happily playing :)

At 10 months, Sweet Caroline is showing lots of personality! She loves to be held, but will happily play on the floor with some toys for a while. She has just begun to crawl...she probably would have done it sooner, but being on the floor with her two big brothers is sometimes dangerous! ;) She will wave bye-bye and hi! She claps for herself when someone says, "YAY!" She can also pat-a-cake with the best of 'em. She says "Dada" way more than "Mama," but she prefers me (for now!). I know she will be a Daddy's girl before long...it runs in the family! She wakes up happy. She nurses first thing in the morning, then usually goes back to sleep for a hour or so. She has a 6-ounce bottle and cereal for breakfast (then naps) and another bottle and a veggie for lunch. She eats a 4-ounce snack bottle after her pm nap, then has a meat and a fruit for supper followed by another 6-ounce bottle closer to bedtime. She weighed 16 pounds and 15 ounces a couple weeks ago at her pneumonia follow-up appointment. She is growing more and more, and I cannot believe we will be celebrating her first birthday before long! Thank you, Lord, for our precious baby girl.

Spring fever!

Well, our Spring has been rather eventful! Spring Brask was March 12th-16th. We had a ball doing all sorts of fun things! The first two pics are of the boys outside Kid City...one of their favorite places on earth.

7 years old

5 1/2 years old

Sweet Caroline had pneumonia over Spring Break. She was diagnosed on Monday and had to do breathing treatments 3x/day (which she DID NOT enjoy) for a week, then she was weaned down to two...then one...then NONE! We never would have guessed she was that sick...she is just such a sweet girl all the time.

Caden got a horrible bacterial infection at the end of March and was hospitalized for dehydration and a high white count. After several bags of fluids, he was much better but is still on antibiotics and has to have follow-up testing done to be sure it is gone. It was the sickest he has ever been...his fever got to 104 and he was delusional. It scared this Mama to death! In this picture, he had just gotten his IV, and Laura and I made a huge deal about it because he didn't even cry! Such a big boy!

The bear is "Cooper." Caden has had him since he got his tonsils and adeniods out in November 2007...he was a gift from Memaw and Papaw along with a doctor kit! The Care Bear is "my lellow teddy." Caden has had him and been attached to him since he was really little. He was from Nan and has been a constant favorite among Caden's "babies." And the bunny is "Puppy," because when Laura brought it to him in the hospital, we decided it's face looked like a dog. These three stayed in the bed with our little trooper for his whole hospital stay, and he sleeps with them every night. He covers them up or wraps them in his "woobie," a cowboy pillow case that he also loves to sleep with.

John Collier HAD to put on his doctor outfit when we ran home for a few minutes to feed Caroline! He loves his brother and was very concerned when I called him on his teacher's phone and told him Caden had been admitted. He felt better once I sent him a picture message to show him Caden was okay! Caden is plaing with the monster truck Nan and Grandad brought him. That poor truck must have driven miles on that hospital bed!

Moving on to happier times...Caden got to pick up 16 eggs at his Kindergarten egg hunt on the Thursday before Good Friday. The kids had a ball!

My artist! John Collier had to search through a couple hundred eggs to find the 4 with his name on them to put in his bag. He had so much fun. Don't you wish you could draw like that?!