Caroline's 5th

This tiny girl is another month older, and we love her like crazy. 

Caroline loves her sleep. Sleep trumps all for this lady. She is a very easy going gal, but if she isn't well rested she becomes a bit of a damsel in distress around 5-6 o'clock. She has dethroned Clint as the families best napper. 

She is just so pretty of course. She is at a really fun stage right now. She is starting to show her preferences to things. She loves books. She will laugh and smile at her stories. She really likes animal noises (The Lion and the Owls in particular) She likes peek a boo, getting tickled and being snuggled.  She does not like her bath time, sitting by herself at dinner time, or tummy time. She thinks Thomas is one funny dude. She is definitely a little less nervous around him than she was for the first few months. Thomas can make this lady laugh like no one else. She will laugh at silly things he does, like when he jumps around and does his silly tricks, and when he hides behind the curtains. Clint and I can get her to laugh by tickling her, etc, but Thomas gets her to laugh just be being himself. He is quite entertaining, after all. 

This girl is so sweet. Every night, no matter how sad or tired or worn out she is when we take her to her changing table to get her ready for bed she instantly beams with a happy smile and coos and is happy as can be. She is so grateful! Its her way of saying, "Mom, Dad, thanks for taking care of me" It is one of my very favorite parts of the day.

She's finally standing with assistance!

And SOOOOO close to rolling over.

Thomas is so nice to her. He calls her the Princess. I'm not sure where he picked this up from. I've never called her princess! One day, while playing make believe he said, "I'm a digger, Mama is a dumper and Tarowine is a dozer." She started crying and Thomas said, "What's wrong, Tiny Dozer?" It made me laugh! The next day he again referred to her as "dozer" and brought her some trucks to play with. I'm not sure what Caroline will think if that nickname sticks :)  I was telling Thomas that Clint was going to take him out to to boy things and Caroline and I were going to do girl things, and he said, "No! I wanna stay with mommy and Caroline and do girl things." I said, "What are girl things you want to do?" Thomas said, "Oh, play diggers and dumpers and cranes." Hmm.... I don't remember those things from when I was a girl.  Anyway! We love this lady so much and we are lucky to have her  and her sweet, rosy, chubby, kissable cheeks!