Caitlin's first Christmas!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Before I talk about our Christmas, let me update everyone on Caitlin's cold. Last weekend Caitlin was fighting a cold and on Monday we took her to the Doctor. Turns out she had a cold and an inner ear infection in both her ears. :( The Doctor put her on anti-biotics and she seems to be doing a lot better now. Her nose is still running a little but she's back to sleeping on her normal schedule and seems happier. She is also up to 17 pounds! She's almost doubled her weight since she was born!

Caitlin's first Christmas went pretty well. She got a lot of nice new toys and seemed to enjoy the day. I think she's still a little too young to understand what was going on but she was full of smiles all day while opening presents and playing with her new toys. We had a nice lunch here at the house had family come over in the afternoon. Caitlin got Toni a charm from James Avery of a mother and child and she got me a Sony PSP! :)

This week should go pretty quick with New Year's on Thursday. New Year's has never been a really big day for us here in the Vargas household but it will still be nice to have the day off. :) If I don't post again before then, I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year!

Merry Christmas!!

Today Caitlin had some visitors! She met Toni's sister Hilda and her husband Mark. They stopped by on their way to Brownsville all the way from Colorado! We had a nice visit with them. They even brought Caitlin a toy! :) I spent a lot of the visit playing with Hilda's iPhone. :) Totally cool!

This week was another busy one for us. Caitlin spent a couple of days this week fighting a cold. She's had a lot of sinus congestion and has had a hard time sleeping this week. At times she seems to be doing better but she still has coughing and congestion that comes on suddenly, especially after eating. Tomorrow we are going to take her to the Doctor just to have her checked out. With this insane weather, I'm surprised we're not all sick! There's something so wrong with the weather when it goes from being 80 one day to below 40 the next. Seems like that's happening every week here lately. I wouldn't be surprised if we go from the 40's tomorrow to the 70's on Christmas day...

This week Caitlin "discovered" her feet! She has started grabbing and playing with her feet and kicking a lot more than normal. I'm sure it won't be long before she starts taking her socks off! :) We've continued recording Caitlin with the camcorder. We've got some great scenes of her eating, playing with her feet, laughing and trying to play with Shiloh.

As this will probably be our last post before Christmas, we'd like to wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas!

5 months old!

Only in south Texas can it be 80 degrees one afternoon and having snow flurries the next morning! This week Caitlin turned 5 months old. It still seems like she's been with us so much longer. This week was actually pretty busy. Wednesday morning Caitlin started day care and on the way, we actually saw snow flurries! Caitlin's daycare seems nice. It came highly recommended by one of Toni's friends who has her 2 kids there so we at least had a good idea of what kind of place it is. All of the staff seems very nice, they have a lot of security in place and they even have webcams setup so that we can login whenever we want and see how Caitlin is doing.

This week Caitlin also seemed to discover our dog Shiloh! She has started watching him and smiling and laughing when he comes near her. She even reached out to touch him. We got a high-definition camcorder during the week and have started recording Caitlin so we don't lose all of these special moments as she gets older. :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Well, the weather might not be looking a lot like Christmas but the decorations are up! This weekend we went and got our Christmas tree and took Caitlin to see Santa. She didn't seem too interested in Santa, she did however seem very interested in whether or not his beard was real (it was). When I tried to take Caitlin off of Santa's lap after the pictures she refused to let go of Santa's beard. Santa was nice enough and calmly told Caitlin that she needed to let go because he was going to need his beard later. :)

I'm going to keep this post short this week since I posted a couple of days ago. Caitlin is doing good and so far has done well on the few cold days we've had so far. She's sleeping through the night in her room and continues to mature every day. She's continued laughing, smiling, reaching for things and making all kinds of noises trying to communicate. We've already got her Christmas shopping done and all of her gifts under the tree.

Last Friday marked 1 year since we had our first doctor's appointment and sonogram after learning that Toni was pregnant! Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday, others it seems like several years ago. The weirdest thing to me is that I remember while Toni was pregnant that those 9 months seemed to last forever. Now, looking back, it seems like Caitlin has been with us for far longer than Toni was pregnant! I'm so glad that I started this blog to chronicle everything. It's been really cool to be able to look back at everything. :)

This week we don't have much planned. Hopefully the weather will get at least a little cooler so it can start to actually feel like Christmas. It was definitely hard to get into the holiday spirit on Saturday walking around getting the tree and not wearing a jacket!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone! Sorry this week's post is a little late. Last week was pretty busy for us. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Last week I only worked on Monday (what I call my dream work week) . Tuesday I spent the day with Caitlin and went to have lunch with friends and then stopped by Toni's job. Wednesday Toni had to work most of the day but we got on the road and headed to Brownsville around 5pm. Caitlin did pretty well on the drive and slept through most of it. It ended up taking about 5 hours to make the drive and by the time we got there, I now fully understand why there is a market for mini-vans. Making the almost 300 mile trip in my truck was pretty cramped. I'm not saying that I'll be trading in my truck for a mini-van anytime soon but I now understand why people buy them. If we ever have another baby, I'll definitely start looking at one.

Thanksgiving was nice. Everyone was amazed at how big Caitlin has gotten. We spent the trip at Toni's Dad's house and got to see a lot of family and friends during our stay. Thanksgiving also marked a special day for us, it was one year ago on Thanksgiving morning that we found out that after over 3 years of trying, Toni was pregnant!

We avoided the "Black Friday" crowds and just stayed in on Friday during the day and then spent Friday night at Toni's best friend Sonia's house. Saturday we drove home and Caitlin did well on the drive home and only got fussy toward the end. Sitting in the same spot for hours on end, I completely understand. :) Sunday we went and got Caitlin a high chair. Special thanks go out to Tia Blanca and Tio Bone for their generous gift of money to Caitlin which enabled us to get the high chair. It's a very nice chair and is rated for up to 55 pounds. With Caitlin tipping the scales at around 15 right now, we should get a good amount of use out of it. She seems to like it and has been enjoying her nightly serving of rice cereal. :)

This weekend we are hoping to take Caitlin to get pictures with Santa and get our Christmas tree!