Baby? I don't see a baby around here.

Wow. Lots of things have happened since the last post and if I try to explain all of them in detail I would be finished at about the same time Caedmon starts college. The thing is, when we had our daughter, we loved her and knew she was amazing and wanted everyone else to know how amazing she was, too. But we (or at least I) found myself taking too much time to show her off and not taking enough time to just be in awe of this God's adorable little creation. So needless to say, I've been doing that a lot lately, and it's great. The good thing about that is, well, I spend lots and lots of time with my baby. The bad thing is that I don't share all the milestones and fun moments as often as I probably should. (On a side note, at what point is it not assumed that every time I blog it will be primarily about Caedmon?) But regardless, I am blogging tonight because the Braves are winning 10-1 and I don't have to watch every pitch, Caedmon is asleep, I have no school work to do, and my wife is busy playing dress up with the forgotten clothes in the back of our closet. So here we go...

A very important event happened in Caedmon's life. Well, important to me anyway. She went to her first Atlanta Braves game. She will obviously be a Braves fan for her entire life, so this first of many visits to Turner Field (I'm sure later in her life she will know it as "The House that Jones Built") is very special. The Braves won, which was nice. But what was even nicer was that our friend Adam Patrick gave her a ball thrown to him by Eddie Perez at the end of the game to commemorate her first game. Thanks Adam.

We got to take a tour of the field.

My daughter is now a talker. Her first word (besides babbling the random dadadada and mamamama) was "catch". Dixi was throwing a bouncy ball to her and saying "catch" when she threw it. I guess Caedmon just decided it was time to talk and after a minute of playing, she said "catch" as Dixi threw her the ball. Now she says it almost every time she sees a ball. It's pretty cute. A few weeks later, she had already graduated to sentences. Check out her saying "there she is" while playing with Dixi.









Did I mention that we no longer have a baby? That's right, no baby, just a toddler. Caedmon turned one year old on August 16 and had a birthday party under the hot, hot sun at Ridge Ferry Park. Lots of family and friends came and gave her tons of hugs and kisses and toys. Thanks for tolerating the heat to come to the party everyone. By the way, my wife did a pretty good job planning and decorating the party huh?

She enjoyed some cake at home on the day of her birthday.

I won't promise anymore posts anytime soon. I have better things to do. (see pictures above) But here are a few of my favorites from the past few months.

Caedmon loves boat rides. They put her to sleep.


One of my favorites.