{two weeks}

It's amazing how quickly the time passes after babies are born...at least it seems so after those long last few weeks of pregnancy.  I can't believe Caroline is already two weeks old! I'm not even close to being ready for this newborn stage to be over, and it just goes way too fast.

She had her first doctor appointment a few days ago, and she is following the standard family growth pattern (except Henry, lol).  She's 99th percentile for height and 75th for weight, and was well above her birth weight.  It's no wonder...she eats A LOT.  Rick actually calls her Henrietta, because she has the same eating patterns as Henry did at this age.   We'll just have to see if it continues...he was drinking 16 oz. (yes, that's TWO bottles) when he was 4 months old, so that bar has been set pretty high.

She is a good sleeper, hooray! She goes down around 8pm, wakes up at 11pm (which is perfect for me--I can feed her then go to bed!), 3am, and then around 7am.  She is definitely the youngest of 6, because this girl can sleep through ANYTHING!  (Believe me, it's been tested...)

She went on her first date night this week, when Rick and I took her out to dinner with us. She slept the whole time.  :)  

The kids LOVE her. L.O.V.E. her. There is always a conversation going on about whose turn it is to hold her, how many minutes the last person held her for, and any unfairness along the way.  My little Jack is one of the best holders in the house, and he will sit forever (one time it was two hours!) with her laying in his lap--his little arm draped protectively over the top of her.  Geesh--I'm still a little hormonal, because just writing that made me cry!

What a good baby she is...never cries unless she's hungry, and is happy all of the time.  Her little temperament is just so sweet, and she brings so much joy into our home.  This picture tells the story...it's during General Conference, and there she is, right in the middle of things!

In other news...we finally have a playset!  It's been sitting in boxes in our garage forever, waiting for Rick to not be so busy at work to put it together.  Enter in my dad. The last week he was here, he spent the days outside (wrestling with my boys at the same time) putting it together.  Rick was able to join him on the weekend, and they finished it up.  Holy moly, those things are a bear to put together!  The kids are in heaven.  They spend hours out there, and it's really nice to have something that they enjoy, and I love being able to send them out to play.

Don't you just love that big area of dirt/mud?  There were originally three large natural trees there, that they left during construction.  They have since all died, the last one just a couple weeks ago, leaving us with just dirt.  We need to take out all the mulch, add top soil, and lay sod...add it to the project list, lol!  I'm in a hurry to get it done, because it just has a silent beacon that only children can hear, screaming "come roll around, and get as dirty as you possibly can"!  My children are very obedient to that voice, and my kitchen floor has been on the receiving end of those dirty little feet many, many times.

All is well around here...busy and happy!