Settling Back In

Written by Beth: We were happy to have a fairly quiet weekend after all of the traveling. Katie got back to soccer and enjoyed her game. Caroline was happy to have some of her favorite things around like her beloved dog boots. Even though they don't really fit, she loves them. She also is very into animals right now and we can get about five minutes of quiet play with the Fisher Price farm. Her barnyard noises are so cute and very high pitched, which cracks us up.

We enjoyed dinner at our friends' house last night and we all had a great time. The girls were very busy with their friends Caitlyn and Nora. The funniest part of the night was when the grown-ups were having dessert, someone said should we be worried that Nora (age 2) is so quiet? Upon investigation, we discovered that Katie was supervising a bath for their girls. One of whom was splashing in the toilet water. Meanwhile, while we were laughing about that, Caroline decided to play the role of Goldilocks and quietly worked her way around the kids table eating everyone's blueberry cheesecake (photo below!)

And we've made a big change at our own table. Caroline has graduated from her high chair to a booster sea and Katie has moved into a regular seat. We're looking forward to having the high chair out of the kitchen! And Lily is enjoying having easier access to Caroline.

There was no Sunday school today, so instead of church Katie and I went to a kids movie at the the theater and then we all did some errands, including a run to Sam's Club. The girls loved all of the samples, until Caroline had a "reversal" (which as Jamie tells us, is the term for throwing up in the world of competitive eating, such as the hot dog eating contests shown on ESPN). She was eating a piece of bacon and apparently had a hard time chewing it, but tried to swallow it anyway, which made her gag. When this happened, I was about to throw out one of the little sample cups and Jamie said just go, she's fine. However, C's face told me otherwise and I produced the cup just in time to catch the spit-up. Jamie says if there had still been strawberry cake in the cup I might have let Caroline throw up on herself to save the cake! He might be right . . . Thankfully, we don't have any pictures of that part of our weekend. Have a good week!