Caitlin, Daddy and Joy playing in the cottage

October 3, 2005 - Playing "Tiny Baby"

Caitlin had to get up into her bassinet even though Mommy says that it's for "tiny babies." She loved it up there and I could barely get her out to go to bed!!

Caitlin trying on her baby bonnet - she had it on for such a long time and it was sooo cute, but as soon as I grabbed that camera she wanted the hat off!!

October 1, 2005 - Update and Redo of September 29th Blog

Hello to Everyone,

Well, I was updating my profile tonight on the blog website and accidentally deleted the last postings I made (on September 29th)...so, I'll update you on some other things and pictures as well as redo the one from the other day.

Here goes:

Some new things that Caitlin has been doing and saying are:

1) She said "doorbell" to Missy

2) She said "babies" to Chris and me

3) She's trying to put her clothes on and take them off all by herself now. She also has to pick out her own clothes in the morning and her PJs at night. She won't really let me help her put them on - she struggles and when she gets frustrated she'll call for "DaDa" to help her. Chris usually ends up dressing her! For whatever reason she stays still and calm for him.

4) She can climb on and off of the couch

5) She said "tortilla" when I was feeding her one

6) **New - forgot on Sept. 29th to say** She said "PaPa" while at MeMe's house while she was looking around the house for Grandpa.

7) She said "bubbles" while taking a bubble bath

8) She screams alot(!!) to get her way, show her happiness and while she's looking for Joy.

9) She said "bath"

10) She said "book"

11) She said "on" while asking me to turn her ladybug lamp on

12) **New since Thursday** She said "bunny" to me and Big Mamma

13) **New since Friday** She said "welcome" to Missy and Big Mamma - short for "you're welcome" when they said "thank you" to her for handing them something at lunch.

As I tried to say on the 29th, Caitlin is getting so grown up and is so smart! She does some things that most grownups don't do! She gets a coaster to set her sippy cup on the coffee table!!

Also, a story I told on the 29th blog was having to do with what a clean freak Caitlin is...she would not go into her little cottage until we cleaned off the floor...it had dog hair and some pieces of grass in it. She would stand at the door and point in making her "trash" noise (it sounds like she's clearing her throat) until we cleaned it. Chris vacuumed it out and she finally (after some coaxing on his part since she was deathly afraid of the vacuum and still didn't believe that the floor was clean enough yet!!!) went in.

Tonight we went over to our neighbor's house and Caitlin playing with Taylor in the backyard. She has a little Jeep that they played in.

Please see the pics from the 29th and today below.

Enjoy and forgive me for my deletion of that blog.

Happy Saturday night,
Love,
Amanda

October 1, 2005

Caitlin and Taylor in Taylor's Jeep
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Playing in the Jeep
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September 29, 2005 - Baby Messy

The five pics below are from a night when Caitlin was eating tacos and beans and pretty much dumped the bowl on the front of her...Here's our Baby Messy!

A Beautiful Messy Smile
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Mommy told me to say "Cheese!"
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Sweet Messy Love
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Many of you have not seen this new face that Caitlin makes...it is new for the past two weeks...she wrinkles her lips up near her nose when she's whining about something and also when she's just playing happily...this instance was a whining one :)
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September 26, 2005 - After Rita

Hello to All,

We are blessed to report that we are fine after Hurricane Rita hit to the East of us in areas of Texas near Beaumont and portions of Louisiana.

We stayed home and Friday ended up being a pretty normal stormy, windy night. No damage and no power outage. We feel very fortunate that our community was spared this disaster.

Chris and I did not have work today and I don't have to go back until Wednesday. So, we're just enjoying some downtime in light of the storm.

Here are some pics of Miss Caitlin enjoying time at home with Mommy and Daddy on Sunday.

Love to All,
Amanda

Reading Books with Mommy

Still Reading Books

Playing Peek-A-Boo with Daddy

Playing with her Beanbag Chair

Playing with Fishies in her Cottage

September 22, 2005 - Hurricane Rita

Hi to All,

We hope that you all are safe and out of harm's way of Hurricane Rita...we hope that we are!..

As of this moment (and things have changed since yesterday and things, I guess, could change again) we are staying at our house in Cypress. We have two sets of neighbors (Big Mamma and her family and Marisa & Doug and their family) and my Mom and Ron are right down the stret - that plan to all stick together in this.

Just wanted to let some of you know where we are in case of this impending emergency!

We love you all and hope to blog/talk to you/see you all again :)

Love,
Chris, Amanda, Caitlin, Joy and Cat

September 19, 2005 - Update

Dear All,

Since I posted last, Caitlin has said some more words and has done some new things:

1) September 13 - said "MeMe" for Grandma (Melinda)
2) September 14 - said "backpack" for her purple backpack that Big Mamma bought for her
3) September 15 - said "my Mommy" while pointing at her diaper bag at Big Mamma's
4) September 16 - said "bug" and "hat"
5) Caitlin can point to all her body parts if she's asked
6) Caitlin can point to herself if asked, "Where is Caitlin?"

Our baby is sooooo big!

We hope you are having a good week so far :)

Love,
Amanda

P.S. There are 10 new pictures below!!

September 19, 2005 - Mommy wanted me to pose for these pictures...

Playing in Mommy's Lap