September 29

She thought it was hilarious to push and pull her wagon back and forth and also push it into mine and Ryan's legs tonight.

52 Weeks Old

Caitlin,

You turned 52 weeks old on May 24th.  Here's the very last weekly recap in pictures (of your 52nd week)!  

You played with the recycle box. 

You played by your high chair and talked to me. 

You "read" your lift the flap book. 

You tried to get out of your bath tub. 

You talked to me and I caught a funny face. 

So serious. 

You found your yellow animals book. 

And then you read it - you LOVE that book! 

You made a cute face for me while you were eating. 

You pushed your stroller around the house.  The stroller goes pretty fast  when you push it on the hardwoods, so you were struggling to keep up a little bit.  Those pants are also a little too big for you, so they were falling down a bit (you can really see it in the next picture).  

Still pushing your stroller.  You love that thing.  

Roadblock - the wall got in your way. 

Daddy let you drink from his glass of water. 

I love these next 2 pictures of you.  You are just so happy.  

So happy about pushing that stroller around the house! 

Our community had a yard sale, and Daddy and I decided that we should go on a family walk and check it out.  We scored this walk-behind toy for you for $2.  The best way for us to bring it back to our house was to put it in your wagon.  At the time of this post (about 4 months later), you still love this toy - best $2 we've ever spent.  

You tried to take your hat off. 

You were very excited about your new toy, so you clapped your hands!  Yay!  

Not sure what it is about this picture, but I love it.

You looked so darn cute in your hat. 

You played by your exersaucer. 

And then you tried to chew on the mirror. 

You crawled on the bottom of the exersaucer.

You remembered that the fan was up there.  

You played with your farm animal push toy. 

You chewed on your teething ring.  

We went to Connor's 2nd birthday party at the petting zoo, and you weren't sure what to think about everything.  

I took a cute picture of you and Daddy together (even though you wouldn't look at me).  

You rode a horse with Daddy's help.

You gave me a pretty smile.  

You played outside and you were talking to me, and I caught a not so cute face.  

Still jabbering away! 

You found your hair, and gave me a pretty smile. 

We gave you some new finger foods to try - carrots, broccoli, and strawberries,.  

Turns out, you were allergic to strawberries as you can see by that nice little rash on your face.  

Some Cute Videos

Caitlin is a big helper.


Caitlin and Leah and the bouncy seat.


Playing in the bouncy seat.


A little dance party in the living room.


A quiz in the car (while we were parked in the garage).  The quality isn't the best because I took it with my phone, but I still love it!


Tickle time with Daddy.

September 28

Caitlin loves drinking from my cup of water (that's almost as big as she is)!

September 27

She thought it was so funny tonight when she threw almost all of her toys out of the bathtub at bath time.  Silly girl.

September 26

Happy 16 month birthday, Caitlin!  Caitlin watched some Elmo videos on YouTube tonight with Ryan, and I caught this picture of her signing and asking for more Elmo (there is never enough Elmo as far as Caitlin is concerned - she could watch it all day long!).  Although she will always be our baby, she is officially a big girl because we are completely done with bottles as of Sunday night.  She was only getting a bottle at bedtime, but we gave her a sippy cup at bedtime on Sunday, and she was completely fine with it.

September 25

We took Caitlin to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore today.  We rode the tram and saw polar bears, elephants, penguins, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, a lion, turtles, a raven, prairie dogs and farm animals!  She wasn't thrilled about being in the petting zoo area with the goats, but overall, we think she liked the zoo.  She looked pretty darn cute sitting on the saddle near the farm animals exhibit.  Take note of the snack cup in her hand... If you give her a snack cup, she holds it with a death grip even if she's not eating the snacks in the cup.

September 24

We went to the Ellicott City Fall Festival today, and they had a little area with hula-hooping for the kids.  Caitlin wanted to join in the fun, and she loved watching all the other kids hula-hooping too!  Thanks to her cousin Stacey for coming to visit and going with us!  Caitlin loved hanging out with her!

September 23

Just a girl and her bunny.  I took off work today, got some stuff done in the morning, and then picked Caitlin up early from school.  We spent a nice afternoon together - it was so great to see her after my almost week away!

September 22

Caitlin's mood improved as the week went on.  I really missed this cute little face while I was gone!

September 21

Ryan and Caitlin took a trip to Target tonight, and she decided to sing in the cart for Daddy.

September 20

Ryan and Caitlin went for a walk after work and school.  Caitlin threw her water and Bunny out of her wagon.  At least she was nice enough to wave bye-bye to them.

September 19

I left for training in Fort Worth on Sept.18th, and Ryan played single dad for most of the week.  The first night did not go very well. Caitlin was in full-on meltdown mode the whole night.  Doesn't she look so sad at bath time?

September 18

Today was a day for messy faces...

First, it was milk and cereal at breakfast.


And, then at lunch, she devoured her mac and cheese.  I think she'd eat mac and cheese every meal of the day if we let her.

September 17

Somebody figured out that her alphabet mat came apart and wanted to give the pieces a ride in her stroller with her baby.

September 16

Today was a rainy, cold day, and we didn't make it to the beach.  I thought Caitlin looked super cute in her outfit that Grandmom and Granddad gave her (for Christmas 2010) - it finally fits!  I also thought this outfit made her look like such a big girl!


Leah played with her toy from her bumbo seat.  Every time she dropped it on the floor, Caitlin would pick it up and shove it in her face give it to her.  She did pretty well with Leah towards the end of the week, and I kind of believe that she has the makings of a good big sister. No, I'm not pregnant, but maybe some day we'll think about having another, and it was fun to see her interacting and helping with Leah.

We attempted another cousins picture, and these pictures make me laugh.  Neither one look thrilled about this. I'm totally biased, but I think they are still so stinking cute.

Leah started to fall over, and Caitlin was like "what do you think you're doing?"

And then I got the "Mom, she's touching me.  Get me out of here" look.