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!

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!"

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!

Thank you, Lisee and Poppy, for my precious basket!!

Snuggling with Aunt Ashley

Poppy and his girls! Kate was so excited to see her cousin, Addie!!

Poppy and Lisee with all of their grandkids!

A quick picture of the four of us before Church

Gigi and all of her girls!

Opening presents and playing with Great Granddaddy Jack!

Master of the hunt!

Success!

"Yook, Candy!"

LOVE this sweet face!:)

What a wonderful day!

Bye Bye and Happy Easter!

Big Sister Kate and Look Alikes!

Robby and I are so proud of Kate. She is taking her role as a new big sister very seriously, and she is willing to do almost anything for baby Caroline--including share her Mama and Dada (which is not an easy thing to do when you are two and a half years old!).

Kate loves to point out that, "sister is tiny, and Kate is yittle." Kate is against the whole idea of being a "big girl." I can't say I really blame her--after all you are only "yittle" once! :)

Kate sings Caroline lots of songs, and wants us to drop everything and soothe baby sister if she starts to cry (even if we were playing with Kate at the time!). Kate also makes sure that Caroline only wears Cookie Monster diapers, because those are obviously far superior to the diapers with Big Bird and Elmo on them. We have to save those diapers for when Kate is sleeping!;)

We love our little helper, and we are so proud of how well she is loving her baby sister.

Oh, and in addition to sharing her Mama and Dada...Kate has also shared her good looks with her baby sister. I am not sure how I am going to tell their baby pictures apart!!

Kate and Gigi waiting for Mama, Dada and baby Caroline to come home from the hospital

Looking in at Caroline when we first brought her home

Caroline planned a "big sister party" for Kate...complete with plastic animals, of course!;)

Gigi and Lisee helped us celebrate Caroline coming home from the hospital and enjoyed Kate's big sister party!

A kiss for Caroline!

Kate has been practicing on her big sister skills on her own baby Caroline

She is also willing to keep Caroline company on her play mat...I think Caroline was actually sleeping in this picture, but Kate was enjoying it!

A post bath snuggle in their matching pajamas

And now for our little look a likes...

Here is Kate at two weeks...

And Caroline at two weeks...

Thank you, Kate, for loving your baby sister so well!

Caroline Grace Wood

We welcomed Caroline Grace Wood into the world at 8:05am on February 22. She was 8 pounds 10 ounces and 21 inches long. We feel so incredibly blessed to be her parents, and we can't believe how much we love her already.

Here are a few of the millions of pictures we have taken in the last few days:

On our way to the c-section....last pregnancy picture!

Kate seeing her little sister Caroline for the very first time.

One Proud Poppy

Lisee and Caroline

Gigi and Caroline

So happy to see my favorite toddler!

We three ADORE our new addition!

Stay tuned...