Embrace the Camera!

me and my girlie enjoyed a fun morning of shopping today!

items needed:

onesie for Halloween costume

bday presents for daddy

and a jacket for baby Caraline in this fall weather we are lovin!!!

this is what Caraline picked out for daddy, season 1 of Friday Night Lights, bc she knows its his favorite!!

Soccer Saturday!!

this past Saturday Tim, Caraline and I went to cousin Mel's soccer game!

it was the first one we have been able to go to this season.

the weather was perfect and it was so great to be doing something outdoors as a family!

here are a few pics from our fun afternoon....

caraline is trying to watch the game but it was pretty bright outside.

so she borrowed mommy's shades...

caraline and mommy enjoying the game.

and daddy too, but by this time caraline wanted to be down running around with the rest of them!

here is some of cousin Mel, she is a really good soccer player!

cousin zac was also very entertaining as usual!

and here is our little future soccer star!!!!

It was a GREAT Saturday!!!!













embrace the camera

not too much to blog about today......really enjoying my day off with my baby girl and really missing time with the hubby, work has been so crazy lately, working extra days, not getting home until 8pm and missing that evening time with the fam so I just wanted to show a picture of my two favorite people in the world!!!! sure do miss these guys when I'm on the job!!!

daddy and caraline just relaxing, love these two!

lumps freak this mommy out....

Yes, we made another trip to Dr. D's today.

This past weekend Tim was changing one of Caraline's diapers and noticed a lump in her groin area.

Any kind of lump pretty much just FREAKS me out. so of course I was on the phone to our pediatrician.

While waiting on the ped to call us back we were first on the phone asking our family members/friends what this could be and yes, getting online to check too.

Turns out we got the same answer from everyone we talked to including the pediatrician....swollen lymph node.  I know that lymph nodes get large when fighting an infection but never expected to see this on my 1 year old in her groin area on the left side right where her leg bends at the hip.  I was also very worried that it could be a hernia because this word was mentioned too.  

Our pediatrician said that this means her body is fighting something the way it is suppose to and that it could have been caused by something as little a a bug bite or scratch near this area.  He said that he wasn't going to get excited about it but that I could just swing by the office anytime this week and he would take a look at it.  (Did I mention that I am an RN in the newborn nursery and get to see our ped on a day to day basis which is so awesome!!)

I had to work yesterday so this morning Caraline and I went to his office.

He looked at it, said we got a big lymph node here and that he wanted to do some lab.

I also forgot to mention that Caraline officially hates going into the doctors office and she knows whats coming when we are there, she started screaming when she heard the nurse's voice coming down the hall, it was so sad.

The nurse did a finger prick and then Dr. D came back in to look at ears, nose and throat.  Everything checked out great, lab looked good as did ears, nose and throat.  He didn't think there was any need for antibiotics yet but I was instructed to watch the lymph node for a week, because the lymph node itself can become infected, and then check in with him.

Since Caraline was so upset about what she had to go through this morning I decided we would go to target and get a little something to cheer her up!!! yep, going to be that kind of mommy!!! wonder where I got this from??..mom, you got any ideas?? remember all of those barbies that I got to cheer me up!!! well, Caraline's not ready for the barbie dolls yet so we got a fun little popper toy!!!

btw, we love these new B toys that Target has!!!

It's your favorite....

Peek -A-Boo that is!! Caraline, you love to play this game whenever someone is willing.

and you will play and play and play until mommy or daddy just finally has to move you on to something else.

here are a few pics of peek-a-boo in your crib after a morning nap, and I think you are just too cute!

Where is Caraline?!?!

Peek-A-Boo, there you are!!!!

The new morning routine.....

 This is Caraline's first ever morning sippy cup!  

Here I am trying to get a picture of Caraline and her daddy for the post today but she isn't liking the picture break in between bites of her breakfast.

Today we are starting the first day of doing a sippy cup in the morning instead of the usual bottle!!  I was a little worried about how this was going to go.  Caraline was breastfed up until 11 months, during this time I was able to exclusively breastfeed 4 days a week and then she got a bottle on the 3 days that I had to work.  she always did fine with a bottle once we found the one that was right for her (avent) but seemed to just tolerate it and preferred the breastfeeding, so I guess maybe that has made the process of getting rid of the bottle pretty easy??  at 11 months when done breastfeeding we started doing a morning bottle, sippies during the day, and then a nighttime bottle, realistically we prob could have just gone straight to the sippies from breastfeeding but I think that holding on to these couple of bottle feeds has been more for my
benefit, I get to hold her during this time and she is still my sweet little infant and not my big girl toddler with her cup!....but it is time and she is ready!.....so in the end I am thankful that this transition for her (and me too) has started out so well this morning!!!

Embrace the Camera Thursdays!

 loving this idea!! and it should be great for me to keep up with since I stay home every Thursday!  

 this is silly face Caraline and me just up from our afternoon naps today!