4 weeks already?

Today my mom joined me on a trip to get some cute itty bitty imprints done of Andrew and Caitlin. We got imprints done from my friend Lindsey's company when Andrew was born... so today we got some done for Caitlin. I can't wait to see them when they are done in a few weeks! It was so cool to see how big Andrew's hands are compared to when he was only 3-4 weeks old.

After that, we met up with Scott & Cat... and Scott and my dad took Andrew off to visit some friends, go out to lunch, and play Beatles Rockband...

Meanwhile, Cat, Laura, Jessie, mom, Caitlin, and I all went... shopping!!!

It was the best way we could have possibly celebrated Caitlin's 4 week birthday :)

(she was staring at me so hard she looks cross-eyed)

We went to Valley Fair Mall and bopped around to find some cute things for Cat.

Jessie tried to prove the weird energy vendors wrong.

We all got Mrs. Fields cookies and diet coke to keep us hydrated and energized on the long shopping trip. I mostly tagged along for the cookie and the company. I didn't feel like buying or looking for anything.

Caitlin eats pretty much every two hours lately, so I spent most of my mall time (almost 2 of the 3 hrs of shopping) enjoying the Nordstrom Mother's Lounge (love that place!) and catching up on blogs on my phone. Since Andrew wasn't around jumping on the couch next to me, it was actually pretty relaxing.

After shopping, we got a tour of Jessie's new house in EPA (she just moved) and then we all headed to Crepevine in PA for dinner. Delicious! (especially the fries).

Once we got home, we played our new favorite game, Kinect Championship Bowling. It is awesome to watch Andrew play Kinect. Dan & Elise got it for us for Christmas... and ever since we opened it we've been playing it non-stop in the evenings. We made Andrew a little avatar and he thinks it is so fun. He is so addicted that I have purposefully not learned to turn it on so that during the day we can't play. I say, "mommy doesn't know how to work it... but when daddy comes home tonight we can play."

I cannot believe it has almost been a month since Caitlin was born!

Caitlin highlights from this week include...

- more quiet alert time- she especially loves staring at the lights

- smiles (still not consistently happening, but they are social smiles and not gassy ones- yay!)- Andrew loves it when she smiles and gets so excited! "Baby Caitlin is smiling at me!!" Sometimes when she is screaming though, he thinks she is smiling and yells over her screams, "I'm making her happy." :)

- loves fans and hairdryers- she always falls asleep in her bouncer chair when I am taking a shower or blow drying my hair

- several really good nights of sleeping... going 5-7 hrs without food... I know it will fluctuate weekly, but I'm loving it for now.

- lots of eating! She eats for 45min-1 hr... then plays and sleeps, and eats an hour after the last feeding ended... so I basically feel like I am ALWAYS feeding her during the day... but then I usually don't feed her much at night, so I'm OK with that.

- she hates her car seat and screams every time I put her in it... but then falls asleep immediately once she is in the car.

- she is starting to scream a little less for her dad. Her bewitching hour is usually from 10-12pm... or 1am (basically, once I've gone to bed and Kevin is in charge). I sleep with one finger in my ear and I can't hear her, so I sleep great. The evening isn't Kevin's favorite time of night, but all of that screaming really tires her out for me!

- she wore some hairbows in her hair and looked really cute and more girly... although I'm worried they might permanently make her forehead have a little indent ;)

- her hair keeps getting longer and has light brown/blond highlights at the tips. It is completely unmanageable and sticks straight up sometimes which is totally awesome.

Happy 4 weeks Caitlin!