September 25th

Well, we all survived Ike and were blessed with no damage to our house. So many others around us were not so lucky with trees falling through their houses. Cailin literally slept through the entire hurricane though. She slept in her pack n play in our bathroom and never woke up once.



Cailin loves her Daddy! She's definitely a snuggle bug. Usually when she gets home from daycare she wants to be held for at least 30 minutes and get some good cuddling in before she's willing to play by herself or even consider letting you out of her sight. Of course now that she's mobile, if I leave the room she'll just follow me.







And of course she loves the Longhorns! I'm very excited that she is finally big enough to fit ito all the UT clothes we had gotten at the babyshower. She had to debut her adorable outfits on the first Saturday I was home to actually watch UT play.

Cailin says "mama" all the time now but it's pretty much directed at me or sometimes Daddy if she wants him to pick her up. I still love hearing her say it though, I don't think that will ever get old! She trying to say more and more words all the time and sometimes she just sits in her crib babbling to herself all kinds of strange sounds. Her daycare teacher and I were talking about feeding her breakfast and she attempted to mouth the word "breakfast". Of course it didn't sound like "breakfast" but we knew she had tried to say it. She's going to be such a little chatter box one day.

Cailin got to spend some time at the park during the week the world shut down after Ike. After half a day with no power, Jeff and I couldn't take it anymore. I know, we're pansies. So, we went to SugarLand to stay in the land with electricity. She got to play at the park there with Cooper and Cody and she absolutely loved going down the slide, then crawling back up it, then going down again. Since she enjoyed it so much, we took her to the park near our house.

One of Cailin's favorite new things to do is tear up magazines. She gets so involved, I don't have the heart to stop her even though it's a habit I know I shouldn't encourage. Even when she's fussy, if I hand her a magazine, it will entertain her for at least 10 minutes. I usually have to finally stop her after she starts to eat the magazine.

"Mama" at Last!

Cailin finally started saying "Mama" last weekend and now she likes to say it all the time, especially when she wants to be picked up. I think she's figured out if she says "Mama", I'll rush over and pick up her. She's attempting new syllables all the time. One day she was playing with Toby and started saying "tatata", she's so smart! Labor Day weekend we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa in Burleson. We all had so much fun. Cailin got to go on to her first fancy restaurant, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. We knew everyone in the restaurant would hate us when they saw us with a baby, but Cailin, being the perfect angel that she is, never cried once! She was even two hours past her bedtime. We actually had a man stop us and commented on how well behaved she was as if we didn't already know : )



She decided to help Grandpa read the paper one morning. I think she was looking for the stats from the UT game.

She got to spend some rare time with her Uncle Brad and Aunt Maggie. I guess she wanted them to herself for a while before her cousin arrives in May!

The days following coming home, both Cailin and Mama have come down with some kind of virus that has knocked us both for a loop. She's getting better but Saturday she was pretty listless and not like her normal cheery self. After a quick trip to the doctor, we were assured that she was doing okay and she just needed time for the virus to pass. Hopefully it happens sooner rather than later for all our sakes.