Due Sept 27th!!

2 Going on 13

I tell you, my child went straight from no words, to an attitude. Here is an example.

Caitlyn was refusing to get into her car seat. She was running around and screaming no. The rest of the conversation went as follows:

"Caitlyn, please get into your car seat"

"No!"

"Fine, I'll just call Daddy and tell him you are being bad."

"And what? He at work."


Seriously!! No one ever warned me it would start this soon. One day at a time....one day at a time. lol.

Acting like her Baby

Caitlyn is in love with her baby doll. It goes everywhere with us. Caitlyn not only likes to put her to bed, but the other day, she decided that she would try getting into the baby doll's little bed. A little too small for her? Yes. Was I afraid it would break? Sorta. Although fisher price is awesome and makes toys that seem to last forever. Could I pass up a cute photo op? Heck no!! Enjoy :)

Girly Time

Caitlyn is a huge fan of painting her fingernails and toenails. The child might be a clumsy tomboy who loves to get into things, climb up things and jump off or over whatever she can, but she is also very girlie. Definitely fun for us, and yet very hard. Mommy took advantage of a quiet moment (which is rare around here) and decided to paint our nails. Caitlyn then insisted on taking pictures of her pretty nails. So here are the results. It takes her less than 5 seconds to smudge them and less than a day before it's non existant on her nails, but it's always worth the fun times when we do it.

Snow!?!? (Feb 16)

Yes, you read that right. "Snow" greeted us on this lovely morning. I knew once the sun came up, it would quickly disappear, so I grabbed Caitlyn and we rushed outside to enjoy the once a year occurrence here in Virginia. Mommy's not complaining though. I've had more than my share growing up, and am sure that once Daddy gets out of the Navy, chances are we'll end up somewhere with snow. We'll see. Anyway, we took some pictures to remember this moment and still to this day, Caitlyn, with a memory like a steel trap, will go out, and ask "where's the snow?" But for that brief moment, we enjoyed what we did have.

Finger Paints (Feb 6)

Having a bunch of bath paints, and Mom always forgetting to let Caitlyn play with them in the tub, I got creative and let her use the paints on paper. Unfortunately, at this point in time, Mommy couldn't stand the smell of the paints and had to watch from afar. Caitlyn loved it and was proud to show off her works of art. If you let it set out in the sun long enough, even those paints will dry!

Jan 25, Fracture

On a quiet evening, I took Caitlyn to the grocery store, as I normally would have. As we were about to bring all the groceries in, Caitlyn decided to help and shut the door. Well, she shut the door right on her thumb. After lots of crying, swelling and blood, Mom and Dad quickly took her to the ER. She did great. Hopping down the hallways like a frog, dancing, oh yeah, getting x-rays and her hand bandaged up just in case. Turns out, we were very lucky, and she just squished it good and nothing was wrong with it. But seeing her hand all bandaged up did make me see into the future. I guess she will be more like her Uncle Jason then I would prefer. I guess like Uncle, Caitlyn will know the ER staff and make yearly visits. Let's just hope she breaks that trend!!