Making Chili with Baba

Caleb loves to help do things with us and for himself.

Mama brought home a treat!

Caleb ate off all the icing and then "shared" the wet, licked all over cake with me. I guess I should be happy he shared it at all. :)

Ohio Visit

We headed up to Ohio over the long weekend, since we weren't able to make it up a few weeks ago when MeeMaw passed away.  It was great to spend time with family and Caleb and Sophie loved every minute of it.  The visits always go by so quickly, but all were more than worn out once we left.   We'll be headed back this summer when the weather is a bit warmer, and Caleb can reallly enjoy being in Ohio.  Here are some pics from the weekend.

Anybody seen my stickers?

Cheese!

Dressed like his pal...PaPa

Nothing is ever just Sophie's, Caleb had to try out her new walker

Tummy Time with Sophie

Meeting Great Grandma Hardesty for the first time

Meeting Great Aunt Cheryl and Great Uncle Bill

Great Aunt Lisa

Great Uncle Mark

With cousin Jordan

Jordan, Meredith and Norah

Snow!!!  I need gloves

Baby feet with Great Aunt Heather

Rock...Rock...Rock

Snow balls!!

In the ball pit

What is this thing on my head?

Fishing for Gooey Fishes

Tuckered out from all the fun and tired from feeling sick too, he fell asleep in the living room

Eatin more snow balls

6 month check up

Sophie went in for her 6 month check up today.  She is growing like a weed, and definitely getting plenty to eat juare her stats:

Weight: 17 lbs 6 oz (67%)

Height: 26.75 ins (67.9%)

Head circum: 42.5 cm (53%)

She also got 3 immunization shots today as well, so this cute mug was not that happy by the time we left.

Gong Hai Fat Choi!

We headed to Durham for the weekend to visit Gong-Gong and Pau-Pau before they go to Texas for a few weeks.  It also happened to be Pau-Pau's birthday last week, and Chinese New Year this weekend, so lots to celebrate.  The weather was great, so after we had Dim Sum with the aunties and uncles, we headed to Duke Gardens to feed the ducks.  We brought a whole loaf of bread to share, and then saw a sign that said bread and snacks were bad for the waterfowl and to buy some pellets from the store.  Being the rule following people we are, I took Caleb with me to buy some.  One mile later around the park we realized that the gift shops was right by where we parked....I had just toted him on my back the whole way.  Caleb loved feeding the ducks/geese, however it took awhile for them to come to us bc there were people all around us feeding them bread and crackers. :)  That night we took Caleb to the chinese church for their New Year's celebration.  He had a great time running around the place.  Yes, literally running around- as he sat down for maybe 15 mins.  I also had gotten both Caleb and Sophie outfits for the occasion, but it didn't quite work out the way i planned it.  Sophie's neck was too big, but the dress was too long everywhere else, and Caleb said his shirt was itchy after 5 mins.  We finally got him to put it back on before we went to church.  The next morning, Caleb and Sophie got "laisee" -red envelopes from Pau-Pau and Gong-Gong.  I was able to  catch some of the fun from the weekend.  I will just add, it wasn't all fun and games.  Sophie definietly knows her surroundings and wouldn't settle that night unless someone was either holding her or sleeping next to her, and for some reason Caleb decided to try and climb out of the pack-n-play and fell out and started crying while still half asleep......travelling with these 2 littles ones is still a bit difficult.

 

 Sitting with Pau-Pau at church

 

 Sophie's 1st red envelope....she seems to love it!

 Gong Hai Fat Choi! Happy New Year!

 Playing with the cars that Mr. Jiang gave to Caleb.  Thank you!  He loves them.

Eating roasted sweet potatoes that Pau-Pau gave us.  She seemed to like it.

Good Morning

Caleb eating breakfast and Sophie wearing one of her outfits from christmas

6 Months Old

Sophie is growing up so quickly!  She is 6 months old today and having a bunch of milestones at the same time.  Yesterday she sat up by herself for 5 minutes without falling over and leaning forward on her tummy.  She also now has 2 bottom teeth, that you can see really well.  She also has started rolling over from her belly when she wakes up from her naps and has had enough tummy time. :)

It's all very exciting.  However, along with these milestones she is also starting to wake up again several times a night and require a night feeding, so we are all very tired these days.  I know she didn't, but I could have sworn she said "mama" at one point during one of our awake sessions at 4:45.  :)

We have also had the cold/flu pass through our entire house, of which 3 of us ended up on antibiotics.  Good times.  Sophie's 6 mo check up isn't until the 11th, so we'll give you her stats then.