Sweet Caroline--4 months old

Height: 25 inches (71%)
Weight: 14 lb 13.5 oz (63%)
Head circumference:  16.5 inches (85%)

Four months is such a lovely age.  Caroline is just delightful in so many ways.  She is sleeping great (almost always through the night), naps well and eats well (takes a bottle well too!).  With those bases covered, we are also enjoying fewer blow-outs and more giggles.  She's quite a ticklish little thing, though sometimes her laughs sound more like grunts.  She always giggles when I lotion her chubby thighs after bath time.  She's even spitting up less than she used to.  I've had some sweet time in the evenings with her where I just get to soak in all of her wonderful baby-ness with cooing, snuggling and tickling.  It's just so great.

The Wedding Vacation: DC and dear friends

When we found out our friend, Martin, was getting married in the D.C. Temple, we knew it had potential to be a pretty fabulous getaway weekend--especially once we got Dave and Jessica on board.  Thanks to many people who watched our kiddos, we were able to spend the weekend sans children--with the exception of baby girl.

Emmett got to spend the weekend with Vaughn, Margaret and Lucy in Charlotte.  It made for some extra driving for Clark, but we knew he'd be well cared for and have a TON of fun.  Way more fun that he would have had with us.  After getting Emmett situated, we finally got on the road in the late afternoon.  We had decently good traffic and made good time to Celia and Benson's new place in Arlington where they had Cafe Río waiting for us--bless them!  We had a nice evening talking with them, watching a little football and going through baby things.

The next morning we all headed into D.C. where we met up with Dave, Jessica, Regan and Ethan for a fancy little breakfast.  From there we walked around the White House and then checked into our apartment for the next two nights.  The place was a bit different than we were expecting from the pictures on Airbnb (we weren't expecting a basement apartment), but it turned out to be just fine.  After all, we managed to all sleep until 9:45 am the first night we were there (bless that baby girl who ate at 6 am and went right back to sleep).  I'm pretty that hasn't happened since, you know, back before kids came!

Best friends, jellyfish stings, and a lot of hand-holding

As soon as we got back from our summer trip to Utah, Clark started a five-week clinical rotation in Goldsboro, causing him to be gone a good portion of the week.  To avoid the monotony of being a single-parent at home, I decided to head down to South Carolina for some quality time with close friends.  The kids traveled great, and we had a relaxing couple of days in Conway.  We kept things pretty low-key.  The kids had a fantastic time playing with each other around the house and in the backyard, while Hil and I had a great time talking about pretty much everything.  Among our topics of conversation was the overall cuteness of our kiddos and schemes of how to help them fall in love...