20 months- Charlotte!

Charlotte,
I now have to clarify who I'm writing about since you've become a big sister. You love Cailin so much and are always trying to help us take care of her. You especially enjoy helping to change Cailin's diaper and put lotion on her skin. You like to point out her body parts and we have to be careful to ensure her eyes aren't poked too hard.

You continue to amaze us with your language skills. Your sign language words are becoming less and less frequent. While I'm proud of your new words, I am sad you are growing up so fast. Your last sign is "All done" but it's almost all done.

You love helping. Your favorite thing to help with his meal prep. You say "Cook, chair, Charlotte" to mean "I want to stand on a chair and help!"

You love spending time outside, and it's so great to be somewhere warm enough to play outside in November. You ask to play with your friends all the time and retell stories of times you recently saw them.

You spent a lot of time with Vovo and Papi this month and had a wonderful time. You talk about them every day now and tell us what they like to do: Vovo- tea (which she drinks), tomatoes (you picked tomatoes with her), and apple (you two shared an apple every day she was here). Papi: coffee (his drink), TV, football (these are more self explanatory). When we drive by Legal Seafoods, you still talk about eating lunch there with Auntie.

Thank you for all of your help and for being such a great big sister! We love you so much!

Mama and Dada

Playground! Swing!

Pushing the stroller

Helping change Cailin's diaper

Cailin!! Cailin!!

Cailin Hope Davis has arrived!

On Monday, Nov. 14th at 9:55 AM, Cailin Hope joined our family. She weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 20 in long. So far, Cailin is a great eater and sleeper.

Charlotte loves having a baby in the house and spends much of the day yelling "Cailin! Cailin!!" to show her excitement. She also likes to keep everyone updated on Cailin's schedule by telling us "Cailin poop...change" or "Cailin...night night...binky". We are so blessed to have these two amazing little girls.

Here's some pictures from Cailin's first 4 days of life.

First snuggles with Cailin (with my bedazzled wrist)

Long and Lean

Daddy is outnumbered 3 to 1 now...and doesn't mind at all

Expressing her disapproval of this world after seeing it for a good 5 min

Ready to go home clothes!


As a comparison, here's Charlotte in her Ready to go Home clothes, 20 months ago

Cailin is content to stay still and snuggle. Charlotte is not.

Here we go!

Fri. Nov 18: I woke up to Matt and Charlotte making waffles...

...and Cailin was still fast asleep. Did your day start this great?

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

Matt had a week off from work before Cailin arrived so we took advantage of the nice weather and went exploring around DC. We spent one gorgeous morning at the zoo. It was fantastic family time!

This is what it'd look like if Charlotte lived in the zoo

Checking out the tigers (which were Charlotte's favorite)

Elephants!

Charlotte pretends to be a monkey...and is able to rest on my giganto belly

Nested

Last week I was convinced Baby wouldn't be showing up for a while. A weekend filled with contractions helped me to realize that he or she will be here sooner than later. We are as ready as we can be- the room is set, the pilates ball is inflated, the diapers/wipes are stocked and we have a list of everyone in the area potentially available to watch Charlotte when we head to the hospital. Here's a glimpse at the nursery (it's quite similar to the room Charlotte once had). Charlotte now has a giraffe themed room which I'll take pictures of soon.