She has a huge personality and although she is certainly shy at the start, if she decides to warm up to you then it will be nonstop entertainment. She loves stumbling around saying hi and bye to everyone, asking for hi-fives, blowing kisses, or if you're really loved... spitting at you. No joke, she spits to say hi to Cam and Olivia and always when Andy gets home.
She walks around much of her day saying 'hoppa' and although I know she feels the love for Emma Kate too, her name is a lot harder for Caroline to say. When a stranger says hi to her she usually likes to point at all her family members and say our names. 'Don't even think about taking me, I'm with mama, daddy, hoppa, em k'
She has this rather large streak of orneriness that keep Andy and I laughing nonstop. This is my favorite example - Cam and Christie were over and Cam reprimanded her for something. Caroline looks straight down at the couch, won't make eye contact for at least 10 seconds. She had been holding two toys and all of the sudden she throws one to the far right with such drama we were stunned. Then about 5 seconds later she chucks the one on the left, still staring down not looking at anyone. Then a good 10 seconds later she looks at Cam and spits at him.... and this was not a friendly spit. We were all so shocked and dumbfounded all we could do was laugh.
At soccer practices for her sisters she loves to run off in various directions. When we call her to come back she usually pauses, looks us in the eye for a couple seconds and you see a glint of mischief through her dark little eyes and she takes off again even further from us. Even her big sisters laugh at how sometimes Caroline is just angry - don't even think about swiping a toy or snack from her! But at the same time the sweetest, funniest little girl.
Her most prized possession is her bunny which she calls 'nonny'. It's a sad day when nonny gets misplaced but fortunately we've always been able to find her. As of late she is also obsessed with books and her favorites are llama llama. She will sit in my lap for book after book after book. Her favorite thing to watch on TV is Moana and she will sing passionately during the songs. She also loves being outside and sometimes will stand at the door just crying and yelling 'outdie outdie'.
She loves pointing out all her body parts and for some reason loves going over all of andy's as well, jabbing his eyes and stretching out his ears. She wants to be just like her big sisters going as far as to wipe her belly with toilet paper when she follows them in the bathroom. Clearly we don't have much personal space in our house these days.
Over the last month or so, Caroline is DADDYS girl! Andy coaches Harper's tball and soccer and I'm not exaggerating when I say Caroline will stand at the fence with her arms through it like a little prison captive yelling Daddy over and over again. When she hears the door beep as he gets home from work she hops up from whatever she's doing as fast as she can to rush to the door. Sometimes I think her clinginess can get a little overwhelming but Andy knows he's the luckiest guy to have 3 little girls that adore him so!
Caroline started Mother's Day out in August and that has been a little rocky. She generally leaves in tears but they assure us she doesn't cry the whole time :(. It will be good for her and I know she will settle in soon! It's just for 2 mornings/week for 3 hours and I think when Ava starts with her she will be even happier.
She's a long lady - I think her height was around 85% and her weight around 75%. The weight we can only attribute to milk because she sure is picky. Some days it doesn't seem like she eats hardly anything and if she can't feed herself she doesn't want it at all... except ice cream - she will give up some control for that :). She still doesn't have a ton of hair though which keeps her looking like my little baby :)
We love this wild thing so much and love seeing her grow!
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