The Big ONE!

We had a small party to celebrate Caroline's first birthday.  My parents and sister were also able to come to DC to help us celebrate.  While it was only about 15 adults and 6 kids that's a lot for our little house.  It was quite hectic and a little overwhelming for Caroline, but I think that most people had a good time and we enjoyed celebrating with family and friends.  We missed Grandpa, Meme and Uncle Brad!

Caroline got lots of wonderful gifts from her grandparents, friends, daycare and "aunties" including her first real doll, shoes, cute outfits, zany zoo, helicopter toy, block shape sorter, stacker toy, piggy bank and dollhouse. 

At the doctor's appoitment, she weighed in a t 17 lbs, 12 oz and 27.5 in (10% for both so moving up on that growth curve).  Besides her party - the social event of the season - other notables from the past month include:

- Crawling correctly and getting quicker

- Cruising everywhere and pretty fast - cruises along walls, couches, the fireplace, cabinets, appliances, tables...everywhere...

- Started on Cow's milk and transitioned pretty well

Here are some pictures from her birthday party:

 

 

Enjoying her cake (I think that she would have eaten the whole cupcake if I hadn't taken it away from her):

Opening her presents:

 

Arkansas over MLK weekend

We went to Arkansas over MLK weekend to visit Grandpa, Meme and Uncle Brad.  Caroline was a bit shy at first, but eventually warmed up to everyone.  She was really starting to cruise well so showed off her new skills all around the house (and up and down and up and down the airplane aisle).

 

Just making ourselves at home in the airport - what I returned to after turning in the rental car:

 

 

11 Months

Caroline is almost one year old!  The big notables from her last month include:

- First trip to Texas
- First Christmas
- Starting to cruise around while holding onto furniture (and getting pretty good at it)
- Better able to scoot around a bit on her bottom - really wants to crawl, but just can't figure it out (gets ones leg stuck of if she does get to her belly, she can't get up on her knees)
- At 10 1/2 months, she weighed 16 lbs. 2 oz. - it was a trip for an ear infection so we didn't get the percentile, but definitely still a peanut

And one in her cowgirl boots (it was taken about a week before she turned 11 months - we did not have our Christmas tree up until the 16th of January):