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....