Sunday, July 3, 2011

Happy 3rd of July

A busy day, the day before the 4th, in our household.  To begin the day, Cailin woke me up, she nursed, then came downstairs to play as I wrote in her baby book..  I was working away merrily when I see a little bare bum coming my way.  Cailin had been standing on the other side of the toy box next to me and somehow took her diaper off while talking and chewing/sucking away on one of her sister's toy necklaces and legos. I was watching her closely, but did not notice she had gotten her diaper off.  To make matters worse, she pooped after taking her diaper off.  I guess this girl will always have clothes on from now and and will not be allowed to be in a diaper only.
 And the mess...
Then there was some outside fun with Brynn's Slipe and Slide and Cailin's baby pool!!
 Paris, Brynn and Cailin in the baby pool
 Cailin trying out the slipe and slide.  C is our little water baby!  We brought her to the splash pad and she was all over the place.  So it was no suprise she was interested in what the big girls were doing today.



Friday, June 17, 2011

Stroller walking

This video was taken about 2 weeks ago. Cailin has been pulling up to standing since 7 months and has been doing an excellent job cruising around furniture.  This was the first time I handed her the stroller!  She took right off.  We have a month to go to see if she will walk before her sister did.

Monday, May 23, 2011


Wednesday, April 27, 2011

On the move!!!







Monday, March 21, 2011

Big Sister!!

BRYNN... Our smiley, loving, friendly, caring 3 year old.  Brynn as a 3 year old is a wonderful little girl.  She has her days or her occasional tantrums, but overall she is a very nice girl with the best of intentions.  She is very caring for others to the point of crying when her dad told her he was sick, or wanting to give her money she won at the superbowl game to the other kids to help them (the salvation army bucket outside of Macy's).
Brynn is an excellent talker.  She only has a few hold ups on some things.  Like underwear is underwears, mine is mines, forget is got for, 

She is an excellent big sister.  She loves her little sister a little too much at times, but enjoys being able to "watch" her for us.  Watching means calling for us if Cailin happens to crawl off the blanket, or like yesterday I was outside in the dog area cleaning up and I had her tell me when she heard Cailin crying when she woke up from her nap.  She loves having these little responsibilities.
Brynn is a self proclaimed vegetarian who doesn't eat salad.  Brynn used the be the best eater when she was younger, but her pickiness as a two and so far three year old are still there.  She won't eat meat, salad, or anything that looks unusual.  She will even refuse to eat a hotdish/casserole if she can see the meat in it.  We have started to make her try to eat the meat or eat the little pieces in her hotdishes/casseroles, but this comes with lots of drama and gagging on the meat.  She does occasionally mention she will eat salad (she really wants to eat it at "two cheeses".  (Two cheeses is Olive Garden, so nicknamed because they add the parmesan cheese to her mac and cheese at the table, hence two cheeses.)










Underwater world!



Trip to the mall to spend her money at American Girl


Riding in the car with her new American doll!  Thank you Weikle Family!!!
Her drawing of a snowman on her magna doodle.

Family picture at Cailin's baptism.  Her pink party dress was picked out all by herself...


The end of the cookie making.  She loved the flour

Trying to get Cailin interested in my phone...
She wanted this picture taken

She loves her Ella.  And yes she really fell asleep this way

Being videotaped... She or her ball may make it on a future commercial

Watching her ball roll down the lane

The bowling alley even has shoes now for her size!


Building a fort for Cailin. PS Cailin is under there at the time

 Taken the night before Brynn turned 3. 

Always fashionable, headband with the PJs
Matt's last picture with the 2 year old.
This says it all!!!!

Real FOOD!!!

 We made it to 6 months before giving Cailin any baby food!  She really did not show any interest until the week before she turned 6 months, and in reality we held off an extra week because she has been so sick we wanted to make sure we were on the mend before we added anything else to the little thing.  (I will post about her being sick in another post later).  So here is the pictures from the first feeding and a week later.  I can't seem to get the video to post, so I will try again some other time.
Our little chef preparing the food..
 She loves playing with the spoons, and this is before feeding




  Sunday night... We love our peas!  We have had rice cereal, sweet potatoes and peas so far...
So good, we want to lick the jar clean!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Trouble with our Hat!!


I heard cries of anger when I was in the kitchen last evening and I walked to Cailin and discovered this... No wonder she was mad!

A quick recovery!!!