Views From A Vet's Wife: Thanksgiving 2011

This year has been full of lots of change. Some change has been not what we planned and some has been great. But overall, we have so much to be thankful for! The most important being our first daughter, Caylee!! As it turns out, the day after Thanksgiving (also Black Friday) Caylee was officially one month old. Wow... time is flying and she is getting so big. She is already outgrowing her newborn clothes and moving into the 0-3 month outfits. We're currently working on a nap schedule- some days it is great, other days not, but we'll get there. She is, however, finally sleeping well in her crib at night. We have started letting her "cry-it-out" because the Dr. suggested that... definitely hard to do, but it has paid off. She wakes one time for a feeding and as long as she makes it past 5am I consider that a good night. (Yes, eventually we are aiming more for a 6:30-7:30 wake time, but again, it's a process).

Here she is at almost a month. She is very good at following toys and seems to enjoy her play mat. For Christmas I am going to try to find some musical/light up toys that she can follow and focus on... I think she'll like those.

This Thanksgiving my dad, Debbie (dad g/f), my sister and Nick (Cass b/f) all came down to Lexington for a few days. It was my dad's first time to see his granddaughter! He informed us that he wants to be called "Pops"... that works, whatever floats his boat :) Here are some pics of the visit....

Pops and his first time meeting Caylee