Babies Babies!

Michelle & Cayden










Gracie


Jack












Owen










Gabriela










Ella & Anna










Zach










Leah









What a wonderful time in life...a lot of my friends are having babies. It is so wonderful to hear their stories and see pictures of their sweet faces.
Sarah has Leah, Michelle has Cayden, Dawn has Zach, Rona has Ella and new baby Anna, Carmela has Gabriela, Kathy has Owen, Michele has Gracie and Jack, and Erica is pregnant with twins!

Tights!

I just turned EIGHT months old on Thursday. Mama and Daddy can hardly believe I am already that old! Here I am in the groovy striped tights that Grandma got me.

Growing with Mr Bear - 34 weeks

I love Mr. Bear!

I think I'm going to give him a kiss...

Arrrggghhh! Bear cooties!

Blue Eyes!

At almost 8 months, I think my eyes are going to stay blue! Yippee!

Would you believe it...snowing on October 12th? Yesterday was interesting...We have a wonderful nanny that watches Caroline on Wednesdays. Well, a bit of chaos struck as the fuse went out on her and in trying to flip the fuse back on, she accidentally turned on the burglar alarm. So as I am on a conference call with several people, including my client in Pittsburgh, she calls on the other line. I quickly put the conference call on hold and unbeknownst to the group, clicked over. I hear Rosie and I hear the burglar alarm blaring in the background. SHortly afterwards, the police came. Not a good day. Everything turned out OK, but it definitely brought my anxiety level up a little high!

The one and only Cheerios...

Well, Caroline tried Cheerios for the first time this morning. She could figure out how to pick up a cheerio, but then didn't quite get how to put it in her mouth. (Go figure - she puts EVERYTHING in her mouth except for the stuff that's actually food.)
Mama had to help out an put them in her mouth for her. She practiced chewing (really more like gumming) and came back for more.

The white sweater

Would you believe that this is Caroline's "Going Home" outfit??

pumpkin balloon

Is there anything that is as exciting as a pumpkin balloon????

Cute

Here's me looking cute...
And then here's me climbing up on...pretty much everything!

Our house in the mist...

Fall has arrived. The air is full of that wonderful crisp autumn smell. Here's a picture of our house one foggy morning.

OK - I just learned how to do links on this site where a new window opens up. So, I thought I would post some of my favorite baby things. I took some exercise stroller classes with a group called StrollerStrides . It's this great group where moms get together with their babies and exercise via fast walks/jogs with their baby in the stroller (with weights and ab work in between). Unfortunately, the class is held right during Caroline's nap time, so we haven't gone as much as I would have liked.

We love Caroline's Bumbo Seat . It's a rubber chair that infants can sit in before they really know how to sit on their own. It's what we use to feed Caroline since she's still too little for her high chair. It's great for feeding her her baby food and it wipes up really easily!

Do you love People magazine? Do you love seeing the "stars" and their children? Well, I've got a website for you. My friend Sarah (who introduced me to baby blogs in the first place!) has this link on her blog. It is definitely a guilty pleasure. Celebrity Baby Blog It is a fun site.
I mean, how cute are the pictures and comments from Chris O'Donnell...
Chris O'Donnell

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Well...we've got the lion part, anyway.

Apple picking!

We took the baby picking for the first time at our favorite orchard - Oriole Springs!

Bear Down Chicago Bears!

Go Bears! We're 3 - 0. I think my Bears onesie helped them win. What do you think?

The "big bed"

I started the day by playing in "the big bed" with Mama. I love cuddling and tumbling around the big soft bed! Then, Uncle Taylor came to visit me. I showed him my new tricks - crawling and pulling myself up to standing.
A note from Mama - Well folks, this was my first week back at work (part-time). It was unbelievably difficult leaving Caroline. We are extremely fortunate that she is in good hands with Grandma BB and Grandma Phyllis on Mondays and Nanny Rosie on Wednesdays. As I keep telling myself, it is only 2 out of the 7 days that I'm not with her during the day. We will continue to pray that I'm able to stay home with her full time someday. We'll just have to wait and see what God has in store for us.

The first crawl is the sweetest

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Welll...there are lots of new things to tell you about. I have mastered the whole crawling thing. It's great...when I want a new toy, I can crawl to get it. When I want Mama, I just crawl into her lap. It's SO much fun!





I also like to climb up in my crib and now pull myself up to standing. The view is great!


Besides for crawling, my other favorite things are...eating everything that I can see...my toes, toys, the tassles on blankets, Mama's fingers, etc. I'm still working on pushing those teeth out, but no luck yet.
Grandma BB brought me an exer-saucer and it is the best thing since sliced bread! (Actually - it's better than sliced bread because I can't have bread yet.)

First round of tennis

Well, today, I played my first round of tennis. ...OK, well maybe I didn't play, but I got dressed up in my tennis dress and played with a tennis ball. That counts, right?

Escape

Sssshhh...don't tell Mama. I'm secretly planning to escape from my crib.

Swing!

I took my first ride on the swings at the park. I'm still pretty little though, so mama had to put her purse AND a blanket in there with me so I would fit! It was lots of fun!

Growing with Mr Bear - 28 weeks

Here I am "growing with Mr. Bear" at 28 weeks.

Grass!

Despite mama's attempts to keep me on the blanket, I continued to squirm my way off the blanket and onto that wonderful abyss of green grass. I love to feel it between my toes and fingers. I like to eat it too, but mama won't let me :(

Hands and knees

Just yesterday, Caroline was laying on her tummy and all of a sudden scooched her legs up under her and got on all fours (in crawling position). She rocked back and forth. Now she is doing this everytime she is on her tummy. I think crawling is in the near future!Look out world! Here she comes!

I can sit up!

I can sit up by myself now. Sometimes I still topple over though, but I'm getting better at it! I still am a huge squirmy wormy, but occasionally, I'll just sit quietly with mama or daddy.