21 Weeks

I'm over halfway there! Our baby girl is due in 19 weeks. Here's the latest belly photo.

March pics

I've been bad about posting to the blog this month. Here are a few pictures from a few weeks ago when Cass and the dogs were playing outside.

Imaginon

This morning Cass and I went to Imaginon, which is a Children's library in uptown Charlotte. First we went to storytime, which Cass loved, then he played in the play area for quite a while afterwards.

Here he is sitting outside a little play house. He took the dishes and some of the plastic fruit and veggies out of the play house and sat them on the floor outside the door. Poor little guy . . . he didn't understand that the food was plastic - he cried after trying to bite the banana and realizing it wasn't real!

Here he is playing with a theatre light switch that turns on the red and blue lights above the stage. And yes, the kids are allowed to play with the switches . . . I double checked!!

Charlotte has a trolley system in the uptown area (very similar to the San Francisco trolleys, but on wheels instead of tracks). The library has a mini-trolley that the kids can play in - here's Cass checking out the view through the "windows" of the trolley (which are really just pictures).

We had a fun time - they have the story times for his age group every Friday morning, so we'll definitely be back!

Are you sure we're not in Kansas anymore?

The weather has been crazy here lately! Last Sunday evening, we had the largest snow storm that Charlotte has seen in 6 years! Granted, it consisted of about 4 inches of snow, but that is rare here, especially in March. The flakes were huge - Cass had a good time watching the snow fall.

The picture below shows the view from our backyard that we woke up to Monday morning.

And here's our little guy holding a snowball that Daddy made. He doesn't know what to do with it.

Fortunately, by now the snow is gone and it's supposed to be around 80 degrees this weekend, so we're hoping spring is officially here to stay!

Trip to IKEA

The IKEA store in Charlotte opened recently, so today Cass and I decided to go check it out. He picked out these colorful bowls there, and prefers to use them as toys instead of eat out of them.

We also finally found something to store his toys in for the living room. It's been hard to find the perfect basket for his toys, because we need something that is short enough for him to reach the bottom, but tall enough that our two dogs (that seem to have never outgrown their puppy stage) won't get into it. I think we found the perfect basket at IKEA. Cass is so glad to have such easy access to his toys now. His latest thing is he picks up a toy, says "huh?" and shows it to me until I tell him what it is, then he picks up another toy and does the same thing, and continues until he has done this with everything in sight. Here's a taste of this -

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Penguin"

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Book"

Cass: "Huh?" Mommy: "Duck". (You get the picture . . .)

Latest Stats

Cass had his 18 month checkup yesterday . . . here are his measurements:

- Weight 23 lbs, 5 oz (20th percentile)

- Height 34 inches (90th percentile)

- Head 18 1/4 inches (25th percentile)

He continues to be lanky, but we were glad to see he has moved up to 20th percentile in weight - he's gaining! :) The doctor said that a reliable method to predict how tall he will be as an adult is to take his 2 year height and double it. Chris is hoping for him to be 6'2", so if he gains 3 inches in the next six months (which at the rate he has gone shouldn't be a problem, but we'll see), he should be there! I definitely think we have the Garcia genes to thank for his height. And he gets his poor little head from me. As for where he gets the genes for his trim figure?? Well, people usually assume it came from me (no offense Chris - ha), but I was not a skinny baby. Guess who was though . . .

My day out with Daddy

Chris was off work Monday for President's Day, and I had to work, so he and Cass got to spend the day together. Chris took pictures on his phone of what they were doing and sent them to me throughout the day. Here are the pictures of their adventures . . .

They started off the morning with an absolutely NOT nutritious breakfast at McDonald's. This is already a big day for Cass, because Mommy does not feed him that cr*p! :)

Then they were off to Lowe's to do some manly shopping.

Wow, someone is already tuckered out. Could it possibly be that he feels gross from the cr*p he had for breakfast? ha ha

Up from the nap, and out again . . . where could they be going now?

Yay!!!! Chuck E. Cheese!!!!

Sorry for the poor quality in this one, but I think he's in motion riding Clifford.

Taking a ride with Chuck E.

Hanging out with real life Chuck E. Not quite sure what to think of him.

Enjoying a ride? Maybe? Again, I don't think he knows what to think of this.