Baptism

Yesterday Caroline was baptized at Trinity United Methodist Church during the 11:00 service. Both of our families and some very dear friends were there. Caroline was an absolute doll!! She looked like an angel and behaved like one as well. I had been stressing for weeks about this day and I can honestly say that everything went off without a hitch - it was perfect!! I had prepared a lot of the food and everything was delicious. The house looked wonderful. Caroline was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better day. We were lucky to get to share the day with some friends of ours. Ashley and Darren were also baptising their son, who is only a week or so younger than Caroline.

Both familes


Caroline getting baptized


Carrying the babies around the sanctuary



We had our families over to our house for brunch after the service. I only got a picture of one table and none of the food or flowers - but trust me when I say that everything was picture perfect!!


Caroline modeling her gown. We did not have a family gown so we bought one that all our our children can wear. It's beautiful. It's a simple cotton gown with ribbon trim and an embroidered cross at the top. It's exactly what I pictured when we started looking for gowns.


She got some wonderful gifts but she was most excited about the ribbon!!

Sitting up!!!

Caroline is sitting up by herself!!! She will only do it for a couple of minutes before she tips over, but she's getting better and better each day! I cannot believe how fast she is growing. I feel like she is learning something new each day!



These pictures are from Mama & Me this morning. She had such a wonderful time watching all the other kids and I enjoyed seeing all the other Mama's! Little C was so tired from seeing all her friends that she came home and took a nice long nap. I love Mama & Me...

Our life just got a lot messier...

But in a good way!! Caroline is such a champ at eating! So far she's tried rice cereal, oatmeal, peas, bananas, sweet potatoes, and pears. She's LOVED everything so far except the pears and we'll try those again soon. Aside from the rice cereal and oatmeal I have made all of the baby food. Adam and I don't eat food from boxes and jars so we figured why should she? I know there are a lot of really great quality baby foods out there and there will be a time where we'll use some (if we're out and it's time for C to eat - it's not really possible to bring frozen baby food to the park for example) but I decided that if I am able to make it then I will. I like knowing what is going into her pure little body. I have actually really enjoyed doing it. I'm not home all day everyday, but on Mondays I usually am. Yesterday I made peas, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, and pears for a whole week. Anyway, Caroline is at the stage where EVERYTHING must go into her mouth. Good for eating...bad for trying to stay clean. We'll put some food into her mouth and then she'll reach in and touch the food (eww, I know) and then rub it on her face. We totally have more to clean up each day, but we love it!!

Caroline modeling her peas


She's already such a giver...sharing her dinner with Daisy


This morning she decided to spit some food at me. It was cute at first


But then she spit even more


Mama wasn't too happy with pears in her just washed hair


But with a face like that, it's hard to be upset!


Oh well...what a cutie!!

Baby bug already?

No, I'm not having another baby - not anytime in the very near future anyway. All the sudden it seems like so many people that I went to high school with, college with, used to work with, etc. are pregnant. It makes me miss being pregnant! It makes me miss Caroline as a tiny little newborn (although the stage she's in now is my favorite). Having an infant is challenging enough - I really can't imagine also being tired and sick as well. I know that now isn't the time to add to the Israel clan but I just can't help missing the pregnant and newborn stage...do I really have the baby bug ALREADY???



Seriously...who wouldn't want this little thing to love????

Little Sponge

Caroline is a little sponge learning new things every day. We've been working on waving lately. She's got the motion down but she doesn't know when to do it yet. When we say hello or goodbye and wave at her she just looks at us like we're crazy but when we're just sitting down she'll wave at the wall. It's so cute. She's been grabbing whatever we are drinking (thus we've mostly been using plastic around here lately). Last night we let her grab onto Adam's glass of water to see what she would do. He held onto it too of course. Little smarty pants held it up to her mouth just like we do. Every time I took a sip of water she would also move the cup to her mouth. What a smarty!! She must take after her mama! :)



I love how cute her smooshed lip looks!!! (That white space isn't a tooth - it's just her gums pressed up against the glass. She's been teething for a while and hopefully she'll have a tooth pop up soon!)

Happy Halloween!!

We had such a wonderful halloween this year! We got be with our friends on Friday and Adam's family for the rest of the weekend. Caroline was in a great mood all weekend and looked adorable in her costume!


The girls at the party


Caroline was so excited to be a kangaroo!


And Daisy was so excited to be a banana :)


Both of our sweet girls


I took C "trick or treating" at our house. Please forgive how I look. It was early Sunday morning and I was still in my pj's.


Mary Scott spend the night with us last night. She was Mario. Isn't she so cute?


I got to draw the mustache and eye brows.


Since we were drawing mustaches...we thought Caroline should have one too.


Mustache cousins


Once she fell asleep we took it off. We had such a fun weekend!! Happy 1st Halloween Caroline!!!

What schedule?

Just when we were all settled into a great schedule, Caroline decided naps were for the birds. She hasn't napped very well this past week. Sometimes she'll go down for 10 minutes and sometimes not at all. Some days she gets so mad that I make her lay down and some days she's happy to be in her crib alone. The other day I kept hearing her squeal and this scratching noise. I went into her room and she was talking to the little birds on her sheets and trying to grab them.



You would think that after not napping all day long she would be exhausted and ready for bed. Not this wild woman - she stayed up until 11:30 one night!! She wasn't cranky or anything, in fact, she was smiling and laughing the whole time. Hopefully we'll all be able to get some more sleep soon!