Look Caroline, More Pictures!!

Better late than never is become my personal motto with this blog....that said here's the link to pictures pf the Thomas family from August.

http://picasaweb.google.com/johndavidthomas/BestOfAugust2008?authkey=j-pVmTVr1jM#

And not to be outdone by getting the Agust pictures up on the interwebs a mere 14 days late, here's July!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/johndavidthomas/BestOfJuly2008?authkey=s-YZRSwVcsY#

New England, Baby!

We may live in Nashville, but I'm trying to instill a healthy love of her father's region in Katherine. So far she seems to be taking to it like a natural. Here you can see her with her "Cape Cod" t-shirt that Emmie and Gee-Pop bought her which she demands to wear to bed....



And here you can see her really displaying that New England pride by wearing her Red Sox shirt and her pants on her head. That's her father's girl.

Caroline is Smiling

After what seems like an eternity the blog is finally being updated again...this time its something pretty special. Little Caroline, who's 11 weeks on Tuesday smiled at the webcam for the first time. If you skip to around the :55 second mark you can see where her father really started to try to get her to smile...sorry there's no sound



Her sister then walked in an after "seeing baby Caroline on the computer" decided she wanted to see Katherine on the computer. Its an interesting case study in how much more a two year old moves around....

Busy July

Whew, its been busy lately, so there hasn't been as much time to post anything. As you can see, its not just parents who have been busy. Katherine's been busy too. Here she is on her way out...

There's more of Katherine and Caroline here

Two sisters

The other day Katherine held her baby sister for the first time -- and it was all absolutely adorable....



You can see her mom in the first shot ready to grab Caroline at a moments notice...Katherine knew what she was doing though -- she's very good with baby "Caro-wine"

Its Raining!

Katherine discovered that its fun to run through the sprinkler on hot days....Although she does call is "rain!"





She also discovered its much more fun when dad gets wet too!

Caroline's First Bath

Caroline had her first bath yesterday. Her parents felt a bit neglectful since by now her sister had probably had 10 baths, but with the second you seem to realize that not everything you thought was very important is actually necessary to ensure their continued health and well being. That and her cord just fell off....

As you can see, she tolerated it like a champ. I'm sure she'll be very excited to see this picture in abut 30 years at her wedding (hpefully!!). Her father is certainly already excied to bring it out....

Katherine's Birthday Weekend

Katherine's Grandparents on her dad's side ("Emmie" and "Grand Pop" pronounced "gee-Pop!") visited this past weekend and we all celebrated Katherine's birthday together. She's been talking about having a "biiiiiig birthday cake" and how she's going to take a "biiiiiiiig bite" for about a month now, so of course there was cake and presents and lots of trips to the playground. So lets cut to the videotape....



Everyone also had quite a good time visiting with baby Caroline...



Celebrating Katherine's Birthday...



Eating Cake, of course....




And just generally catching up...



Katherine already misses her Grandparents....

Katherine is 2!!

It's hard to believe that Katherine is two years old!! We thought it would be fun to revisit the last wonderful year with her, month by month...

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

Goodbye Old Home

I think it was a lot harder for Elizabeth and I to sell the ol' Arlington homestead than we thought it would be....there were a lot of wonderful memories at that house. It was a good house, a great first house, and a wonderful place and neighborhood to live in. But luckily we have pictures!

It looked a little dumpy when we first bought it....but what did we know...



Though it still did look great in all seasons...



We did a lot of work on it...



Celebrated holidays...



And generally just had a good time...



It was a GREAT house

The New House

Here's the new Thomas family headquarters in Nashville:



Its on 510 Fairfax Ave. in the hip and happening Hillsboro Village area. Everyone is very excited about it - especially Katherine...

Look How Big I've Gotten

Katherine had a little impromptu bath this morning because of a pretty nasty diaper. No messing around here, right in the sink with her for a good old hose down...



which made me think someone has certainly grown from her first time in the sink...



She also seems to enjoy it more.

"Rock the baby"

Katherine has taken to the big sister role pretty well. She's not possessive of anything -- except the chair she watches Sesame Street in, which is now "not Caroline's sesame chair" -- and she loves to help out, as you can see here...

Katherine Meet Caroline

Katherine met her baby sister for the first time on June 5th....

Here's Caroline!

Here she is - the newest addition to the Thomas family!



She arrived at 1:54 on June 3rd -- almost 2 weeks early -- but weighed in at a healthy 7 lbs. 13.5 oz. and was 20 inches long. Needless to say Elizabeth and I think she's the most beautiful baby on earth.

More pictures of Baby Caroline her big sister and her mom are here