BREAKING NEWS!!!

This is the best news I've had to report for a long long time! Caroline has slept through the night for the past two nights! I think (knock on wood) this is the real thing. I can't tell you how happy this makes me!! I think I actually completed some sleep cycles! I haven't slept a whole night through in over a year (I had to get up to go to the bathroom several times a night when I was pregnant with her). The morning after she slept all night long was one of the best mornings of my life. We are so proud of her!

Baby Eats!

Caroline is an eater now! These are pictures from the first feeding. We started her on rice cereal. She was a little tentative at first, but she is eating with full gusto now! She now eats pears, apples, and bananas (usually the bananas are mixed in with her rice cereal). I made her pears and apples, you puree them and then freeze them. She usually eats one cube of apples or pears, but today she's gotten even hungrier. She is now eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Today she had a pear cube and rice and bananas for breakfast, a cube of apples for lunch, then two apple cubes, cereal and bananas, and a few spoonfuls of mashed bananas. She is still nursing during the day too. She is starting to sleep better too. She is so much fun right now. She likes to eat when we all eat together too. She likes family time.

Baby in a Crib

Caroline finally has a crib! She loves having a bigger place to sleep. I feel bad she had to wait so long, but I really didn't see the point in buying her one in Utah just to move it all the way across the country. It is beautiful and pretty easy to put together. We have been so blessed with the generosity of our family and friends. My parents gave us a nice crib mattress and bedding, and Eli's aunt also gave us some bedding, so she is set with everything from bumper pads, bed skirts, mattress pads, and sheets. We are very lucky. Here are some picture of a baby in her new bed@
Enjoy!

What Caroline's Been up to

Anatomy of a Blow-Out

I don't think I even really need to say anything.

Paging Dr. Rhoads...

Eli is officially a doctor...in training. His medical school has a ceremony before school starts. It is where the incoming students receive their white coats. Fun Fact: Practicing doctors wear long white coats, down to their knees. Students wear hip-length white coats. It was a very nice ceremony, yet long. Caroline did great, though I pretty much had to stand up with her for the whole one and a half hours. But it was a very nice ceremony and I am so proud of him! Caroline wasn't that impressed with it, until she found the buttons they had put on his coat. She just wanted to eat them.

Eli has a week of orientation this week, then classes start on Monday. We're on our way! I am so proud of him and we'll keep everyone updated on the school stuff in his life1

Wise Baby

Caroline is on to us. She knows we're trying to get her to sleep better, so she thought she'd read up on our methods. She lives by the saying, "knowledge is power."



I've never seen a five month old who could read, have you?