Now that I have the DS-3 up in the office, I should be able to upload many more videos than I have been. Here are some recent ones.
Emily Lam, the last two videos are just for you (and the rest of you who complained about poop). Enjoy!
Crawling Caris
So our little girl started crawling right before 6 months. Well, kind of. She did this modified form of crawling… she looked like a caterpillar. Pretty much at the same time as this crawling developed, she began sitting up really well. So, I started letting her just sit. She seemed to really enjoy this upright position. I didn’t let her practice tummy time as much. So, then about a week ago, I started putting her back on her tummy more often. Caris was not so happy about this change. But, now she’s back to practicing her crawling. She’s finally starting to get more control of her mobility, though she’s not yet doing full on hand-knee crawling yet.
Caleb Singing & Drumming Away
Caleb was having fun with the Rock Band drum set at Chris’ work. Wish we could have gotten better video footage. Caleb’s hilarious when he sings.
Caris & Chris
Caris is chatting it up. Well, kind of. This video was taken about a month ago… so, she’s more talkative now.
Funny Caleb Video Moments
You almost got this baseball thing down, Caleb. Almost.
So, shapes are relative, right? As a mommy, I’d have to say so now. My son is contributing to modern art.
Caleb Etc.
Whee. Caleb loves slides. This would make pupu nervous. Sorry, pupu… this mommy lets her son go down big slides by himself all the time.
Caleb eating his first sandwich. Well, kind of. We’ve offered sandwiches before, but this is the first time he ate it as a sandwich (versus taking it apart). He even ate the dairy-free soy cheese and veganaise that I was trying out.
Caleb decided that he now likes spaghetti.
Daddy caught this cute video of Caleb playing with his car/bead toy.
Caris’ Stats
Caris had her 4 month doctors appointment this morning. She got heaps of shots and the oral rotavirus vaccine. Hope she doesn’t get a high fever like Caleb did at his 4 month vaccines.
Length – 26 inches (95-97th percentile)
Weight – 15 pounds, 14.5oz (90th percentile)
Head Circumference – 40.5 inches (45th percentile)
So, when we weighed Caris, I was all disappointed… thinking my daughter doesn’t weigh very much. Her brother was 17 pounds, 7 oz at his 4 month appointment. Then the doctor tells me that she’s 90th percentile in weight for girls. So, I guess I don’t have to worry about Caris being too small.
No teeth yet for Caris. And she’s almost there with rolling. She’s only done it once so far… I think it was a total accident that she flung her leg all the way over. She has yet to make that mistake again. Caris is really good at the back scoot, though. She can get pretty far on her back, just by using her legs to propel her while in a supine position. She’s great at grabbing things now. Really likes using her hands.
(I love my spit cloths. And yes, I can breathe.)
(Daddy’s getting me dressed.)
(I still have a double chin!)
(I’m a chub-meister… and proud of it!)
On the Road Again
We’re out in Louisville, KY! This was Caris’ first plane flight ever. She was great on the flight here. She fed at take off. And she fell asleep. And she slept. And slept and slept some more. She finally woke up when we landed almost 4 hours later.
Caleb was good on the plane as well. He didn’t sleep the 4 hours like Caris did. But he was good nonetheless. He only got his 25 minute nap, but he tried to push on. He had good company with him though to keep him entertained.
He had is pacifier
He had Leakless
He had Chick Hicks
And he had his media player with Cars on it.
We got our rental car. A Ford Edge. Not a bad car. Caris seems to like it as well. At least in the front seat.
We originally booked a suite from the Galt House since they had special convention rates while we were here. After traveling with Caleb, we found that staying in a suite is so much better than staying in the same room. So the suite would have been nice, except we didn’t get one. We got an apartment instead. You read that correctly. An apartment. So initially when Yvonne told me they upgraded us for free to an apartment, I was thinking maybe we get an extra room or something. Something just a little bigger. Oh gosh. Check out this video.
The place has 2 furnished bedrooms, and plus another unfurnished room and “work†room. That’s 4 rooms we have available to us. We stuck Caleb in one room with no windows. It looks like a closet. And could very well be used for a closet. But it works well nonetheless. He sleeps well in there.
Caris on the other hand isn’t so lucky. We could have stuffed her in the other room, but we only brought one monitor with us. We were planning on staying in the same room with her so we didn’t think we’d need a monitor for her. So no separate room for Caris. Yup. It’s not Caleb who gets stuck in the closet, but Caris. It is a big closet by the way.
We have beautiful view of the waterfront. Caleb likes the boats. He greatly enjoys looking out there even when his diapers are barely hanging on.
General Council (C&MA convention) has been going well. It just started officially tonight. We’re all still on LA time zone so that means waking up at 10/11 AM and going to sleep at 11PM. It works out fine until we’re looking for places open for dinner at 10PM. Or when I have my 7AM Friday morning breakfast. Or even tomorrow’s 9AM session. Not going to be easy getting up in the morning.
But it might be easy since Caris’ hasn’t been sleeping that well since we got here. She’s constantly waking up in the middle of the night and taking short naps during the day. She must know something isn’t right. And the crib we got is so dang low it’s hard to put her down in. Every time we lean over to put her down she’s up wide awake! So we did the only thing we thought we could do. Go to Walmart and buy her a bassinet and sleep nest. It seems to work better, but she’s still not sleeping well. I think tonight has been her best night of sleeping so far, but it’s only been 2 hours. Keep sleeping, girl!
We did some vacation stuff. We went to the zoo today. Caleb liked it a lot. It definitely seems more entertaining and kid friendly than the LA zoo. It’s got a water park where Caleb ran around and I got soaked.
It’s got monkeys (or gorillas if you want to call them that) who pose at you.
And it’s got none of the exotic animals kids don’t care about. It’s perfect.
We got Caleb a backpack before the trip so he can help carry stuff. It’s cute. He walked funny without it before. It just gets even more funny.
Help Mommy
Caleb loves helping out. He tries to do everything Mommy does. Mommy’s learning to try to let Caleb help out more. But, honestly, sometimes it’s just easier/faster to do things myself. Mommy’s learning to let go…
Caris is famous already in other people’s videos
A friend of ours in Georgia just sent a video link of her daughter. They received a picture of Caris, and their daughter was saying Caris’ name on the video as she tells a story of a thunderstorm. She’s reading a pretend book with the picture of Caris. Pretty cute.