Week Three - let the visitors begin!

It's been a busy week with lots of visitors coming to hang out with us. First my grandmother, uncle, aunt and cousins came on Saturday and spent a fun afternoon playing with Isaac and passing Caitlin around. She slept soundly through their entire visit, leaving them with the impression that she is a calm and easy baby - ha!! She woke up right as they were leaving and was up for hours reassuring us that our impression of her was in fact the correct one. She is definitely adorable and sweet and has moments of calm, but she is DEFINITELY not going to be a calm or easy baby. We have however begun to use some of the tricks we learned from Isaac to help her find her calmer self, and so far, I'd say we are evenly matched. Stay tuned...In any event, it was great to see them and we are so glad they made the trip from Philly.

My dad came in later Saturday evening for a quick overnight visit. Isaac was very happy to see Papa Rich, and we had a fun night and morning field trip to Gymboree before taking him back to the train station to head back to NY. It was our first trip as a family of four plus a guest in the Prius -- and it was enough to make us realize that the Prius is WAY TOO SMALL for us now!! It is a great car and we love it, but we are now in the market for an SUV (we are still staying strong against the mini-van for now, but I guess you can never say never...)

Finally, after Papa Rich left, we successfully put both kids down for a nap AT THE SAME TIME and were able to catch a nap for ourselves - huge victory! And then Rachael came to hang out for a couple of days to help me when Bill went back to work and before my mom arrived. It turned out to be a miracle that she came because I got a touch of a stomach flu and would NEVER have been able to make it through the days without her help. She came with me to Caitlin's pediatrician appointment on Monday -- she is almost 10 pounds! I made the doctor look up her percentile just so I could hear a number above the single digits (Isaac is still under the 5th!) and was thrilled to hear Caitlin is in the 93rd percentile! The way she's been eating, hopefully she'll keep it up!

Finally, Isaac is still having fun with Cesi and was very happy to have Lussa back from vacation. We got these cute pics from Cesi throughout the week...