The Woods: April 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

A Ride On The Wild Side

Last weekend, we went to the Safari Park in Lexington, Virginia. For those of y'all who have never been, you drive your car through about three miles of park and feed all sorts of animals along the way.

Kate is obsessed with animals (of the plastic and stuffed variety), so we thought she would love seeing the real thing at the Safari Park. Let's just say, it was a huge hit!!

While I was a tiny bit scared of the animals throwing their heads in the car to eat, Robby and Kate LOVED it!!

We will definitely be going back there again soon!!

Apparently, llamas really like grain!

She was loving it!!

Kate feeding a llama!

I fed a camel...it stole my food bucket, and I promptly closed my window.
He was NOT the smallest thing I have ever seen!!

The most exciting part of our venture...this watusi was hungry...YIKES!

Neither we, nor our car, was able to escape him!
Luckily, no one (including the car) was injured in the making of this photo!

Kate thought it was hilarious!

Even the ostriches came right up to the car! They are huge!

We ran out of grain, but this hopeful llama would not give up!

A rare moment when Caroline was awake....she slept almost the entire trip!

After the park, we went to the petting zoo to see the baby animals!

That was awesome! We will be back!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Caroline is Two Months Old!

I can't believe that our precious baby girl is already two months old! She weighed in at 13 pounds and 24 inches long at her two month check (75th percentile for both weight and height). She is a little taller than Kate was at this age, but otherwise their stats are identical.

Forgive my lack of blog updates lately...I can't seem to get anything done because I just want to snuggle this baby. Who could blame me...after all, if she keeps growing at this rate, she will be taller than I am by the time she is in preschool!;) I mean, two inches in a month is some serious growing!!

Caroline has stolen our hearts with her toothless smiles and sweet personality.

Smiles for her Dada!

And a look back--I can't believe how much she has grown already!

One Month

Newborn

As Kate would say, "We yub you, Sister!"

Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter 2012

We had a wonderful Easter celebration with all of our Charlottesville family! Kate LOVED every minute of the day (except for nap time, of course), and it was such a treat to watch her take it all in!

We started the day with brunch and an Easter egg hunt at Lisee and Poppy's house, then we went to Church, next we took a break for some much needed naps, and then we had another egg hunt and dinner with Gigi, Terry and Great Granddaddy Jack! Whew! What a day!

Kate especially LOVED the Easter hunts (Oh, and the bunnies and candy filled eggs!!) All day yesterday and today, Kate has been saying, "Thank you, God, for the Easter hunts." She also said her favorite part of Easter was "Jesus." So even though she doesn't really understand why we celebrate Easter (which is very hard to explain to a two year old!), she certainly has the right idea!

Caroline's first Easter...6 weeks old and such a joy!