Caroline's First Vacation

Now you knew that being Trent and Heather's daughter that Caroline was not going to have her feet on solid ground for long so at 3 months we took her on her first airplane ride and vacation. Our first stop was Denville, New Jersey to visit Heather's friend Madeline Grob and her family. We attended Craig Shirey's wedding (Trent's friend from high school) in Brooklyn as well. Caroline had a little trouble adjusting to the change in the time zones and new bed but was good as gold on the plane! Here are a couple of photos of the events...

Three Months Old...

Today Caroline is officially three months old. I don't know where the time has gone! She has changed quite a bit from the sleepy little newborn we brought home from the hospital. She is sleeping much better for one (with fingers crossed!). She wakes up usually once a night and is pretty good about going back to sleep. She loves to lay on the floor and play and loves her spider, butterly and lion toys -- also loves the touch and feel books that Aunt Rita sent. She likes her tummy time and on May 1, she rolled over for the first time and I thought it was a fluke but it has happened three times since then so we will see! She is a smiling and happy baby -- she doesn't like to have her clothes changed or sit in the car seat -- we are working on these as mommy likes to be on the go! When Aunt Katie was out, she helped us to do a 3 month photo shoot so check out some of our favorite shots. We are loving all of our time with baby Caroline and can't imagine life without her!

Beautiful Day at the Beach

It was gorgeous out today so we took Caroline to the beach to get her feet in the sand and actually wear a shorts outfit! She liked her toes in the sand and I think Mommy and Daddy got a bigger kick out of it than Caroline as she fell asleep in her Baby Bjourn as we walked!

Caroline goes bowling!!

Aunt Katie and Kevin came to visit and we had a great time. It was a little bit windy but we still managed to get some sun. They were along for Caroline's first trip to Casa de Soria (our favorite Mexican restaurant) and bowling -- only in CA as every other state would be way too smoky! She was fantastic at the lanes but I would not say the same for the rest of the bowlers as the highest score was 100.

MiMi Jan Comes to Visit (Grandma Jan)

This past week Grandma Jan (she thinks she wants to be called MiMi -- we are testing out names for her!) came to visit Caroline (and Laurie and I!). Caroline was 10 weeks old and is learning how to "talk" or coo which is so cute. She has found both of her hands and likes to put both of them in her mouth at the same time. She holds her head up very well and loves to look around. We took her to her baby class this week -- she is, of course, at the top of her class. We also visited with Aunt Laurie and Uncle Crispin. She had her first trip to our favorite Mexican Sunday buffet at Joannafina's and was serenaded by the Mariachi band there. We had a great visit and are sad to see MiMi leave!!

Day at the Santa Ynez Wineries

On Saturday, April 7, Caroline made her first trip the Santa Ynez wine country -- a favorite of her parents. As our brother-in-law, Crispin (Laurie's husband) had all 4 of his brothers in town, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed up the wine country. We visited Sunstone Winery and Beckman -- Caroline was an angel in the car and enjoyed the time laying in her sun tent (along with Aunt Laurie -- see the pictures). Never too early to introduce her to the finer things in life!

My First Easter

Well the Easter Bunny came this year but it didn't bring any candy for little Caroline as she has no teeth yet -- wait till next year. We spent Easter this year with Aunt Laurie, Uncle Crispin and all of Crispin's brothers. Needless to say there was a feast and we still had fun taking pictures with Caroline and the bunny things! She even looks like she went hunting for Easter eggs with the little basket that Aunt Laurie gave her!