Carla's First Thanksgiving

Here are some photos of Thanksgiving and Carla's 9th week.














Carla's asleep in Mommy's Big Bed!














Big yawn.














Waking up.














Power to the people!














Watching football with Daddy. Go Cowboys!














Getting kisses from Daddy.














Baths are really fun now!

New! Video of Carla Playing

Here's a short video of Carla playing with her activity gym. She is about 8 weeks old in this video. Her gym has a star that lights up and plays music which she loves to smile at. She also likes to smile at Mommy and Daddy while she plays.

Carla - The Early Weeks

Although this post will come after her 7-8 week photos, it is a photo summary of her first 6 weeks. She's growing so fast that it's hard to keep up! The pictures start at about 6 weeks old and near the bottom are of her around 2 weeks old.
Here's one of her around 5 weeks old.















Although we have lots of pictures of Carla with family, and will get those posted later, this is one of my favorites of Carla looking out the window with John's Dad.



















Happy Baby!














This is one of Nicole's favorite pictures. She calls it "Daddy's Big Hands." Carla is about 4 weeks old here. It shows just how little Carla is and paints a picture for the bigness of Jesus' almighty hands in which He holds the whole world, all matter, and His precious children together.



















The happy family! Right after we took this picture Carla spit up and filled her diaper. We were on our way to church so, needless to say, we were a little late :) Babies have the best timing don't they?














The proud Papa:)






































Carla has been a smiler from the beginning. Above is the photo we like to call her "Arrgghh Matey!" pose and below is the earliest picture we have of her so far - about 2 hours after her birth. It was a rough delivery so I don't look very good but Carla did great!














Below you can see that our little wildcat has a future at Kansas State University (so we hope) but here she's just taking a nap all decked out in her purple gear.

Carla's 7th and 8th Weeks

Here's Carla enjoying her activity gym. She has really started to smile and laugh. She is such a joy!
















At 7 weeks old, Carla really started to enjoy baths. We got through her first couple with a lot of crying but now, she seems like a fish in water...can't wait to teach her how to swim! As you can tell from the picture below, she's still trying to figure me out :)