MLK Weekend Recap

Friday: Ashley, Caitlyn, and I went over to my parents house where Hana and Ksavera made us all dinner to welcome home mom. (She just returned from a 17-day Hawaiian cruise). Dinner was delicious and included salmon, bowtie pasta with sundried tomato dressing, green beans, and we brought dessert... chocolate pudding garnished with raspberries and mint leaves.

Saturday: I picked up an extra shift at work so Caitlyn and Ashley got to spend some quality time together. Saturday evening we met Tiffany, Kory and Avery for dinner at Farrelli's where we enjoyed some delicious pizza and good conversation.

Daddy & Daughter Time!!!

Kory, Avery, Caitlyn, & Tiffany having some fun!

Sunday: We woke up and did some shopping, then went back to my parents house where my cousin, Brian and his family came over. We welcomed them all back to Washington. Myranda and Kassidy are getting so big. Myranda loved to hold "baby Caitlyn" (that's what she called her). We all watched football and cheered hard for the GreenBay Packers as they lost in overtime. The rest of the family except Caitlyn, Ksavera, and I went off to watch Monster Trucks at the Tacoma Dome. Caitlyn and I rested in DziaDzia's recliner and fell asleep until everyone returned.

Babcia & Caitlyn... a bunch of cheeseheads!

Monday: This day was especially fun! Not only because Ashley was able to have the day off work (thank-you, Martin Luther King Jr.)... we also started to introduce solid food to Caitlyn.

The day began with us waking up together and cleaning the much needed dirty house. We then had lunch with Ksavera (who was on her lunch break). Afterwards we did some more shopping. When we came home Caitlyn was getting a little hungry so I nursed her as Ashley got the videocamera, camera, new high chair, bib, and rice cereal mixed with breast milk ready for the big production. I finished nursing and Ashley placed Caitlyn in the chair... that's when the fun began. I was busy juggling cameras while Ashley was doing the feeding. We went in for the first taste and Caitlyn was way more excited about the spoons than the food. We gave her an extra spoon to try to keep her hands away from the one we were using to spoon feed her. We got... maybe an 1/8 of an ounce in and she was spent! We then went over to Ashley's parents house for a Monday dinner (We substituted monday for our usual Sunday dinner because of the long weekend). We enjoyed cube steak sandwiches and some more good conversation and went home. At home we tried the rest of the rice cereal but thickened it up just a little... that worked a little better. She got about two teaspoons of rice cereal with about 2 ounces of breastmilk. She then was getting tired so I nursed her again and she went to sleep!

What a weekend! Enjoy the Pics!!!

This is Caitlyn... testing out her new high chair & getting ready for the big production!

This is round 1: rice cereal introduction!

We all took a break for some good Monday dinner with Grandma & Pappy

Round 2: Thicker rice cereal introduction

Caitlyn thinkin...

"It wasn't that bad afterall! I think I can get used to this solid food stuff!"