The Growing Caldwell Family

Saturday morning I started cooking lunch to take to one of our midwives, Margaret, who has had some really awful things happen to her lately; one of them being that she fell and broke her ankle leaving her unable to move around for the past month.  A care calendar was organized and I signed up to bring her lunch.  Part of her meal included some cinnamon muffins.  They were on the counter cooling and I guess SG helped herself to one (who knew she would reach up there and knock one off) because the next thing I saw was SG holding parts of a muffin and shoving it in her mouth as hard as she could go.  I couldn't scold her, so I put her in her high chair to enjoy the rest of it.  She was such a sweet girl while we visited with Margaret and Aaron cut her grass.  She showed her all her toys and most of her party tricks!  After we left Margaret's we made a trip to IKEA.  I had hoped that SG would fall asleep at the start of the journey, but instead she ...

No, it's not Christmas yet!  On Friday there was a really big consignment sale that I have heard a lot about, but hadn't had the chance to go before.  Dad came over and took Sarah Graves and me to it and it was as big as everyone had said.  There were toys, books, clothes, and baby equipment.  We had a lot of fun picking out toys, books, dvds, and puzzles for Sarah Graves to play with when she gets a little older.  I did find a great mirror for tummy time and another toy that lights up and plays music that caught her attention.  Dad and I also had fun picking out some Spring/Summer clothes for her.  I just hope that we guessed her size correctly!  I'm still unsure how much to expect her to grow in a few months time.  This sale is so well organized and the items are really nice quality and have all the pieces there with them.  I will try to go back for the Fall sale in September.  I am really lucky to have a Dad who is willing t...