Caitlyn finally did it!!

That's right she took her first steps today. I was in the floor with her and she took two steps toward me then fell into my lap. Unfortunately she was tired and screamed at the fall, it was just before nap time. Also Jordan is out of town working. I called him and his response was "oh no."
I knew it was just a matter of days. Well we'll keep practicing and maybe by her party she'll be walking.

Where has the year gone

It doesn't seem possible that we are planning Caitlyn's first birthday party, but we are. I guess when you look at all she as learned so far it is. I never would guessed it would go by so quickly.

We went in earlier this month for our weight recheck and well She's just going to be skinny. She is 29 in long (90%) and 16 lb 4 oz (10%). The doctor said if she stays there or decreases on the parentage charts we may have to do bloodwork. We think she's fine. She's healthy and she's always eating. She eats four or five times a day and she eats everything, as you can tell by the pics below. She just never sits still, even in her sleep. Besides I was never on those charts, my sister was always at the bottom and I'm pretty sure Alisa was never on the charts either. So it runs in the family. Oh well we'll see at her next appt in June.

On to other wonderful Caitlyn news. She has unfortunately learned a new word. One Jordan keeps telling my nephew is a bad word in our house. That's right she learned "no". It was cute when she shook her head no because she thinks it's funny and doesn't understand the meaning but actually saying the word, not so good. Of all the words she hears, she repeats the one she hears the most, go figure. Maybe we should focus on another word.

Well that's pretty much it at our end of the world. I'm going to go work on the invitations. Oh and of course the cute pics.

Our first spaghetti dinner

and of course the bowl is on her head

She's really good at climbing on us when we are in the floor


and Jordan has found a new exercise program

That program works great, we have both been losing weight.

10 Months.

Well, she's almost a year old. She's been hitting every milestone about 2 months early, but she's still merely making noises, instead of really talking. She does "ma-ma-ma..." and some other noises like that. We've been teaching her a little sign language for certain things she wants like "up, please", "eat, please", "drink, please", etc.. We think she did "up" today, so I picked her up and she was happy. Hooray for communication! She has, to this point, signed "please" a couple of times, and she's also clapping on her own. Sometimes with prompting, sometimes without. It's pretty cute.

We're gearing up for her first birthday party, which will probably be here before we have everything ready. Of course, we'll probably have ridiculously messy cake pictures and fun present opening pictures...maybe not in that order.

Kacey's parents visit pretty regularly, and my parents came in last weekend. She has a lot of fun playing with all of them. (pictures to follow)

She's still zooming (crawling) around the house, following Kacey and I whenever we go into another room.

Now, some way cute pictures:

She had fun playing with Grandma:

And Grandpa:

I figured we should get some from her perspective:

She finally convinced Grandpa to put down the camera and let her take a real picture:

She loves to explore, and she's learning to love to read:

I said to Kacey as we were talking about the books on the shelf, "You know what she should read..." She got it out on her own.

And apparently wanted to read it:
She was so proud of herself:
Afterwards she got out a book that Kacey got for her so that she can understand why I'm always griping at the TV during the football season. Well, really it just explains the game. I'll still have to teach her about salary caps and bad coaching choices:

She only has her pacifier (plug) while she's in bed, but often she tosses it out anyway:

I've titled this piece "Consequences of Actions":

And here are some more cute ones:


This one really made me laugh:


Only a couple more months until she's one year old. Yikes!


-jordan