Week 29

This weekend we celebrated Jonathan and Aja's beautiful fall wedding.  Grandma Marsha came with us since Caitlyn was not invited.  The wedding was everything I wish our wedding was minus the rain.  It started to pour Friday and into Saturday morning, but somehow the sun came out just in time for the outdoor ceremony.  Colby was the cutest ring bearer.  He did go straight to the ceremony (only because I was holding his hand) but once he got to the alter, proceeded to run into Bill's arms.

The wedding was gorgeous with beautiful lightening and tons of fall tokens like pumpkins, leaves and mums everywhere.  Caitlyn got to wear many of her fancy dresses and spend lots of qualty time with Grandma Marsha.  It was a great weekend.

Also, my friend Nanditha had her baby boy Siddharth.  He was born that Monday.

Week 28

Crawling has begun!!

Week 27

We ventured for a road trip, saw many people and lived to tell the tale.  The last time we traveled was for Mother's day.  With two kids, on two different schedules, it took us over 14 hrs to get to two different places.  We were hoping not to repeat that horrible time.

Last weekend, we traveled smarter and left right before bed time.  I got to celebrate my birthday (and Caitlyn's half birthday) by eating at the Brookside Diner and then getting my nails done (thanks MiMi Donna).  The big excitement was Grammy's 90th Birthday on Saturday.  I saw family who I haven't seen in years.  Nana had a blast spending time with Caitlyn, Colby and the rest of the grandchildren.

Sunday Bill and I had a play date with Nital and Zena's kiddos.  We all came to Nital's place and spend the day eating, talking and watching the kids run a muck.  It was a very nice reunion.

Now that the weekend has past, our little girl is 6 months old.  She is eating pears and apples now.  Caitlyn also weighs 18 lbs 5 ounces and is 27 inches long.

Week 25 and 26

Okay I missed another week, but at least I will publish week 26 earlier (I guess that counts for something).  Let me re cap last week:  I took off Monday and Tuesday and made baby food among other things.  I made five food items: apples, pears, butternut squash, carrots and sweet potato.  My goal was to have some foods under Caitlyn's belt before she turned 6 months old.  I cranked them out and froze them.

Some of the exciting things that happen over these last two weeks:
(1) She loves to grab toys, pick them up and place them in her mouth.
(2) Maybe teeth are coming?
(3) Has tried rice cereal, green beans, carrots and butternut squash.  So far she likes the butternut squash the best.

This weekend we are off to Jersey to celebrate my b-day and my grandma's 90th birthday. We will also get a chance to see Zena and Nital too.

WEEK 24 (I like numbers better)

Okay, I may be bias, but our baby is a genius.  She is sitting up now, which in itself is astounding for a baby that is less than 6 months old .  But, the real kicker is, she is almost crawling.

I couldn't not believe it for myself until I saw it yesterday.  Caitlyn can get up on her arms and legs, completely lift her body off the ground and start to rock back and forth.  I have some photos to prove it.

I don't remember Colby hitting these milestones yet.  Where is the time going???

On other news, we spent our labor day weekend cooped up inside trying/attempting potty training.  It sort of worked.  Colby can now pee in the potty but has yet to go number two.  School has been somewhat resistant to letting him go all day with underwear.  So far Colby has had only BM accidents. Hoping this weekend, he will fully get it.

Grandma Marsha is also coming this weekend to help out while Bill is away in Pittsburgh.

WEEK TWENTY THREE

Caitlyn is all smiles and rolls.  She even can sit up on her own for short bursts of time.  My little angel is so advance (I am bias of course).

I swear that she even did a little mini push up yesterday.  She will be crawling in no time.

Today Bill and I had our first parent teacher conference with Jessica, Ci Ci's teacher.  I hope I can get a copy and put it on the blog.  She had videos of her and pictures of Caitlyn smiling.  I was so impressed.  

WEEK TWENTY TWO

Five months have come and gone so fast.  I can't believe it.   Now it is time for solid foods.  I love when they really start to eat like a little person.

We tried rice cereal on Tuesday and Caitlyn spit it out at first.  It is growing on her.  She was adorable sitting in the high chair for the first time.

Over the weekend we had some very special visitors.  Caitlyn got to meet Shiv and Nandi.  They all had so much fun together.  The boys were lots of trouble.  Nandi loved playing with "the baby."  Nital and Raja were such wonderful friends.  I really appreciate how hard it was to travel with two kids just to see us.  They are great friends.

Here is the little one at her five month snapshot: