Sweet Caroline...

The baby is 5 weeks old today, so this post is very late in coming. I apologize! I guess I've been a little busy. :-)

Our little girl arrived on December 23rd, around 8:30am. She was 7 lb 7 oz and 18.25" long. She was born with a fair amount of dark hair and with blue eyes, though they've darkened up quite a bit already. But, we can't tell yet what color they are. It took us a day or so to decide on her name, but eventually settled on Caroline Jeanine Brown. We like it. And we like her too. She's pretty cool. :-)

Caroline had her one month appointment yesterday and she's now up to 8 lb 11 oz and 21.5" long. She's in the 70th percentile for length and 50th for weight. She's healthy and doing well so that's what we like to hear. She also got her first shot, and while she screamed her head off right afterward, I was able to calm her in just a few minutes and she was just fine after that. What a trooper!

She's changed a lot in the last month...besides getting bigger, she is now starting to smile at us and interact. She makes some cooing sounds too which is pretty cute. She likes spending time on the floor gym staring at the toys and flailing her arms in their general direction. Overall she's a really good baby and we can't complain. (A little bit more sleep would be nice though...haha)

Here are some pictures of her when she was born...

And for comparison, here are a few that were taken recently, around 4-5 weeks.

That's all I have time for right now, but I promise to try to be better about posting!

Waiting for Santa and Baby...

Nope, no baby yet. No luck with the full moon on the 12th, and no luck with the snow storm we got over the weekend either. We're trying to be patient, but I believe we're failing miserably. My due date is 12/21, which is now only 6 days away. So hopefully we have some exciting news soon!

But in the meantime we have put up our new 9' tree and tried to make it a little bit Christmasy around the house. We weren't sure if we'd have time or energy to get the tree up, but I'm glad we did! (By the way, it looks much prettier in person.) And I can't believe the quantity of gifts that hash brown has...at least half of the gifts under the tree are for her! And she's not even born yet!
As we continue to wait for Santa and baby, we want to wish you all a wonderful holiday! Eat, drink, and be merry! :-)

Decorating Hash Brown's Current Home

Why settle for a big ol' boring belly when you can have one that has been professionally decorated? A wonderful lady, SarahKate, helped beautify hash brown's current home by giving my belly this henna tattoo. Now if only the nursery looked half as good!

Here's what it looked like with the henna paste on it - waiting to dry.















And here it is the next day after the henna paste has been scraped off. It should last for a week or two. Cool, huh?


Only 4 more weeks to go! ....or less if I'm lucky :-) If I haven't gone into labor by Dec 12, anyone up for hiking Mt Sanitas during the full moon? haha... (seriously.)