Check out Cairo's hair!

Cairo is slowly growing some hair. It is coming in thick, but it still doesn't have much length. A few days ago Aunt Kyoko gave us a little rubberband to use on Cairo's hair. I was able to get it up and into a little ponytail on top of her head, but all it wanted to do was stick straight up!

Father of the Year...

And the father of the year goes to Erik!!!!... for successfully putting together Cairo's birthday present from her Grandma and Grandpa Biggle (a new wagon) and not waiting until the last minute.

Father's Day

For Father's Day Erik spent a successful day working in the yard (what a Dad!) and then we headed down to Ferndale to have Father's Day dinner with Grandpa Tipple, Grandpa Dedini (Lee), and the rest of the family. Here are a few family pics...

Almost a year

This past weekend, we celebrated Cairo's upcoming birthday with friends and family
down in the LA area. We had a nice BBQ and Erik made cupcakes for dessert. Cairo got her first taste of something sweet. She didn't know what to do with her cupcake at first. She just sat there and looked at it. It wasn't until we broke it up into biteable pieces that she finally started to eat it... and here I was rooting for her to do a face plant into it...



Cairo got some very nice presents which included a new summer wardrobe, a few toys, and some really fun books.

Visiting the Doctors'

Last week Cairo went and visited several doctors.

Since day one, Cairo's hips have clicked. As a precaution, Erik and I were referred to a children's orthopedist to make sure everything was a-okay. Cairo had x-rays done and all was clear. She is just VERY flexible (future ballerina or gymnast?). Cairo also paid a visit to the dentist to get her two teeth checked out. Grandma, who works at the dentist office, held Cairo during the examination. To get a good view of her entire mouth, Grandma had to enable the much loved "upside down baby" routine. Cairo does a good job brushing her teeth (morning and night) and had healthy mouth of gums. Her third tooth (upper left) is going to pop through any day now.



Cairo made one more visit- to the pediatrician. She has had a cough on and off for a few weeks. Erik took her in to get that looked at, as well as her one year check-up (the shots will have to wait until after her first birthday and we are up north). To our surprise, Cairo had the start of an ear infection. So, Cairo has very happily been taking her pink bubble gum medicine twice a day and seems to be healing well. While we were there, we discovered that we have a baby who is starting to get really long and not so heavy. At almost one year, Cairo is 20 pounds, 4 ounces (50th percentile) and almost 30 inches long (80th percentile). Her head is huge and still up in the 90th percentile.... maybe that is why balancing isn't coming easy to her. She is still a ways from walking.

11 months... last week

We've had Cairo for almost a year now. Can you believe it! Only a few more weeks and we will be celebrating our not so little baby's 1st birthday. This past weekend I went back and looked at come pictures of Cairo throughout the year and it really made me realize how much and hoe fast she's changing. She's no longer that pudgy little blob with the cute little giggle. Instead, I have a long and lean, wiggly, LOUD baby on the verge of being a toddler.

Cairo loves blueberries!!!


Here are some glimpses of Cairo today. She is interacting more and more with us and things around her.




Cairo is learning new words. Over the past few weeks Cairo has learned the word ball or "baaaaaaa". Anything that is round or circular is a "baaaaaaa"... including her morning blueberries.

Today while in the tub Cairo dropped her tubby toy (over and over again) and said uh-oh, pronounced "uh-uh".

And I thought I could give a good Booboo face!