ABC Board Book

I finally finished one of the digital scrapbook projects I was working on, on Heritage Makers. I made this cool 8x8 board book for Caroline. Hope she likes it :)

Funny Girl

Caroline is really starting to talk and do funny things lately. I don't want to forget so here are a couple things she has said and done.

Yesterday we were at church. She doesn't really like Sacrament meeting...the first hour of church. She would prefer to just go to nursery and play with Zack...or "Sack" as she calls him. In the middle of the meeting she started hitting her diaper and saying "poopoo" really loud. I didn't smell anything, but I didn't really think she would tell me that if there wasn't something going on down there. So, she grabbed a diaper, I grabbed the wipes and off we went. Guess what!?! She totally lied so she could get out of there and run into the nursery to play with the toys. It was so funny. I can't believe she is only 18 mo (almost) and can already manipulate me!
We were also sitting right across from Zack (he's 2) and his family. When it was time to sing the closing hymn, Caroline and Zack went in the aisle and started dancing. Too cute!

Also, the other night Tom and I went out to the movies. My car hasn't started since it snowed and I've been stuck at home all week and needed out. Tom's mom came over to babysit. Caroline calls her Yaya and she loves when she comes over. The next morning when she woke up we had a whole conversation about where Yaya went. I think this was the longest conversation I have had with her.

Me: Caroline, did you have fun with Yaya?
Caroline: Yaya...as she shakes her head yes. Then she runs to go find her.
Me: Caroline, Yaya went bye bye.
Caroline: Bye bye? Outside?
Me: Yes, she went bye bye outside.
Caroline: Brrrr
Me: Well, she didn't stay outside in the cold. She went to her house.
Caroline: Shakes her head and points outside.

I just thought it was funny. Then she went and showed me what they did in her room. lol. So funny!

She has also become my little helper. She loves to throw things in the garbage for me. Hopefully she doesn't throw anything away that doesn't belong in the garbage. lol. The other day I found this charger and I didn't know what it went to. Caroline was playing with it and I said "Tom, what does this charger go to?" He said, "Oh, it's garbage. It's from my old phone." Caroline promptly took the charger and threw it in the garbage.

She loves to try on all her clothes. I wish I got a picture of this...the other day she had her bathing suit on, a tutu, her pink boots, a scarf, and a hat.

Videos!

Here are a few videos I have wanted to share...I haven't been able to get them to upload until now.

The first two are from the day after Christmas when she saw the snow for the first time in the morning. The third was from the other night when Tom's parents were over for dinner. We were shooting a little car across the cofee table really fast. She was doing the really cute laugh/scream every time. I guess she thought it was funny.

More Snow!

I feel like I live in Idaho again! Last night it snowed and this time we got about 2 ft. at our house! Tom has a lot of snow to shovel! Caroline and I watched for a little while from the window. Later, we went outside to play! It was pretty cold and there was really nowhere to play since the snow was so deep...so we came inside and made hot chocolate! Caroline LOVES hot chocolate. She has been walking around saying "mmm...chocet!"

The view from our front door

Shoveling his way out...

Caroline's swing set...the snow was all the way up to the swings

Watching Daddy...

Not a fan of standing in the snow...

Thumbs up!

23 weeks

So I can't forget our little BOY!!!!! That's right, if you haven't already heard, we are having a baby BOY! I'm so excited! His name is going to be Angelo James (Tom's dad's name is Angelo and my Dad's name is James). I'm going to call him AJ for short...it's such a cute nickname I think. I bet he's going to be a baseball player...AJ just sounds like a baseball player to me. Plus, I think Tom started making plans for coaching his baseball team as soon as we saw his little weewee on the ultrasound monitor. lol.

So, I am over halfway done being pregnant! Hurray! I feel pretty good...just the normal back pain and feeling heavy. My due date is May 5th now (wow, they gave me 2 more days...it used to be May 7th). But, he will just come when he comes. I don't plan to have a c-section unless he ends up breach like his sister. I'm a little scared, but also excited to experience labor (call me crazy). My dr. also will not induce unless I am 2 weeks past my due date...so, little Angelo would be here anytime before May 19th. I was actually really hoping for April 25th because that is my mom's birthday...I just thought it would be nice...but of course it will happen when it happens which is just what I want!


Me and little Angelo James at 20 weeks

17 Months

Happy New Year! It's going to be a great year, I can feel it!

Caroline turned 17 months on December 28th, so before I forget, I want to record what she is up to and all the new things she is learning...or brag about her!

December brought Caroline lots of sicknesses...and Daddy too. Luckily I have managed to stay healthy. I've got plenty of other things to worry about, like growing a baby! I blame it all on Gymboree. She loves Gymboree and I love taking her, but EVERY SINGLE TIME she has gone she has gotten sick. So no more Gymboree until flu season is over. The last thing I want is the flu for her, or for me while pregnant! For now we still stick to playing with our little friends Jolina and Isabella.

I really don't even know where to start with how much she is growing and learning. *First of all, she is getting taller, but somehow maintaining her 21.6 lbs. I don't know exactly how tall she is now, but her pants are getting shorter! *Her vocabulary has really started to grow. She tries to repeat most every thing we say. The cutest thing was the other night when I told her to say Uncle Angelo...she said something that sounded like this "cucko an-0". It was super cute. Here are a few of her words: jacket, bye bye shoes (this is what she says when we are going somewhere), hi Dadda, WOW, Papou, Yaya, outside, burrr, poopo, Kaka (which basically means poop in Greek), baby, etc.... *She is very good at following directions...so long as she's not tired and it is something she wants to do. *She loves her potty. She says Poopo and sits on it...then she will say psssss and wipe herself. It's hilarious, but she has yet to actually go on the potty. Once she does it once I think she will catch on quickly (cause she's so smart). *She LOVES her babies. Santa and Papou and her Aunt and Uncle brought her some pretty cool baby stuff. She loves to put her babies to bed and tell me, shhh! She loves to feed them...and she loves to hit them, throw them, and kiss them. What a sweetie. lol. *She likes to build tall towers with her blocks and knock them down...I probably shouldn't have taught her that because other kids are really not going to like that if she knocks their tower down. Oh well. *She loves to jump...especially on the bed...which I also shouldn't have taught her since we plan to switch her to a big girl bed either before or a little after the new baby comes. I can just imagine her staying up all night jumping on the bed. *As of January 1st she is off the bottle. I'm glad we finally did this because now she eats much better since she's not drinking quite as much milk. *Caroline absolutely LOVES her daddy! She will see him and just wave and say "hi Dadda" over and over and over! A few times we waved bye bye and blew kisses from the window when he was leaving for work. Now ALL DAY she will want to look out the window and just say "Dadda, Dadda". She gets very excited when he comes home and runs to him. I love that she loves him so much! *We have to be careful what we do and say because she watched every move and remembers things that I never would have guessed. *Forget the parks and playgrounds...our child LOVES to run around Target for fun! Seriously, it is so funny to watch. She gets super excited and just runs! She will pick things up and talk about them. The other day she found the balls and was yelling BALL BALL so loud. Then she found the baby dolls...she found the biggest box and tried dragging it with her. It was so funny! Luckily we are able to leave without any fits for not buying everything. *She dresses herself. It is really funny. She changes her pants (she can't quite do shirts herself) all day long. And she really loved skirts and tutus! I need to get it on video. *She still loves Baby Signing Time and can sign pretty much every sign on all 4 videos. The other night we were babysitting JoJo while her parents went on a date. I said to her "Caroline, is JoJo your friend?" and she signed friend...I didn't even know she knew that one!

That's about all I can think of this month! Happy 17 months my cute little princess!

Cheese!


Playing in the snow today
Mommy and Caroline
Caroline and Papou (Toms dad)