Babysitting

Caroline was so excited when she found out we were going to be babysitting our friend's daughter on Fri. night. She kept cuddling up to eight month old, Allie, and saying, "I love this baby!". Caroline was my little helper.

Eleanor Learning to Smile

Eleanor has been smiling and cooing a lot more latey. I have some video of her cooing that I'm going to try to post.

Eleanor Eight Weeks

Eleanor is already eight weeks old! I took her in for her 2 month check-up and she is doing great. She now weighs 11 lbs, 11 oz and measures 22 1/2" long. Her weight is in the 75-90%, her height is in the 50%, and her head circumference is in the 90-95%. Brett and I have been joking around that she has a big head and now it's been confirmed! That's ok, it just means she'll be really smart! : )
She is starting to sleep longer at night now, sometimes sleeping for up to 5-6 hour stretches! She is still drinking about 5 oz. each feeding at about 3-5 hours apart during the day. Eleanor (a.k.a. Ella /LB/Little B-for Little Brett since she looks just like him!) is still working on the smiling and lifting her head while lying on her tummy. When she gets it down pat, we'll be sure to post a picture.

Dress Up Time

Caroline and her friend, Lexi, were playing together and decided to dress up as "beautiful princesses"!

Caroline's Tree

Of course the lights weren't working on the bottom half of the tree, but Caroline didn't seem to notice!
She doesn't really understand yet that the ornaments need to be spread out, instead of many ornaments on the same branch!

Caroline has really been enjoying getting ready for Christmas. Last weekend she decorated a little tree we have in our foyer "all by herself"! Today Brett bought some more Christmas decorations and she wants to help him put them up when she wakes up from her nap. I'll post some pictures when they are done.

Christmas Parade

We took Caroline ands Eleanor to the Horse and Carriage Christmas Parade in our town last night. Caroline had a blast watching all the decorated horses and carriages ride around the square. Her friend, Amelia and her mommy, Michelle, joined us, too.

"What's you doing?"

Caroline (seriously) must ask me at least 50 times a day, "What's you doing, Mommy?" I"m glad she is curious and interested in what's going on, but I have to tell you, after about the fourth time she asks me within a 5 minute time spam, it gets a bit frustrating! I think, actually, that she doesn't even realize now how much she is saying it now it has become such a habit. I even will ask her back sometimes, "What's Mommy doing?" and she'll tell me exactly what I'm doing ("folding laundry", "driving the car", "Feeding Baby Eleanor", etc...) I talked to her today about some other ideas/questions she might want to ask Mommy, like, "How are you doing today?" or "What did you do today, Mommy". By five o'clock today after the 42nd time (give or take!) I told her to ask me some other questions instead, so from five until bedtime, she kept asking, "How are you doing today, Mommy?". I guess my idea backfired! Any suggestions, anyone? : ) The funniest part is though, that earlier today, I tried to playfully turn it back around on her and kept asking her "What's you doing, Caroline" every couple of minutes and she got really frustrated and said, "No you talk to me, RIGHT NOW!".