Sweet Dancing Caroline

>> Saturday, April 10, 2010

Last Friday we had to take Caroline to the doctor (again) to make sure her ear infections had finally gone away. Jack and I were waiting with her in the exam room. There was a book that had those buttons that if you push it, the book plays music. Low and behold...Caroline started dancing. It made us crack up. A few days ago we broke out the Neil Diamond and got some video of Caroline's latest skill.




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Cherry Blossoms

>> Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Last week Caroline and I braved the HOARDS of tourists and went to the
tidal basin to see the cherry blossoms. Even though it is a bit of
chaos over there at this time of year, the view was worth it. Caroline
had a great time looking up through the blossoms, checking out all the
cool patterns the sun made through the blossoms. We caught this
picture from where we were standing.

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Easter Pictures

>> Sunday, April 4, 2010


Happy Easter to everyone!










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He is Risen

He is not in the tomb!

Pictures and things later. For now we rejoice in our redemption (and
try to teach Caroline to say Alleluia)

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Turned around

>> Saturday, April 3, 2010

Caroline has hit yet another milestone. Her carseat is now facing
forward!! She has passed one year and is now well over 20 pounds. We
had her carseat sort of wedged into my car, with one seat in the front
nearly all the way forward. Now we can all put out seats back and
enjoy the view as the world goes by!

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Flowers

>> Thursday, March 25, 2010

Well Caroline was not particularly enamoured with the zoo. But I found
something she does like. Late this afternoon we went to the local
flower place. It is an outdoor space with whatever is ready for
planting. They were just getting their shrubs in when we went. They
had primroses, runculous, petunias and some other early flowers as
well. Caroline was intrigued. We have taught her how to be gentle when
she touches things. So I said "gentle gentle" while she walked around
patting everything. We must have been quite the funny picture.

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Seriously, how cute are we?

When we were in Florida my dad surprised my mom and got a professional photographer (Katie Byer, see link) to come and take pictures of the whole family. We're on the beach. We're smiley. We're just darn cute, don't you agree. (And, for the record, Jack bought that dress for Caroline for Christmas. Great taste on his part).

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A little project

>> Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Caroline has been sick the last two days with a stomah bug. (We had a
first when she got sent home from daycare today). Since she doesn't
feel good, she takes long naps. This leaves me with a little free
time. The laundry doesn't require constant attention. So I worked on a
quilt for my to be born niece or nephew coming ing early September.

I got the blocks together only to realize that I didn't have enough
green fabric to finish out the blocks as I wanted. So, I'll order more
and keep going. But I think it is a pretty fun start.

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Zoo

>> Saturday, March 20, 2010

This is the first truly nice day we have had on a Saturday. So we
decided to go to the zoo. We remembered that last year around this
time our nephew Micah was pretty excited about the animals. He is a
year older than Caroline so we thought we would give it a try.

She wasn't impressed. Well, not be the animals. She was very enamoured
by the open, smooth pavement where she could run/walk/toddle around.
She waved at lots if people (and one monkey). She briefly said hi to
the elephant and was wholly unimpressed by the ponies. But, it was a
beautiful morning and we all had fun!

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First pigtails

>> Friday, March 19, 2010

Caroline's hair is growing out rather nicely and we are finally
getting to the point where it will hold bows. I had been putting them
on the top of her head (as on her birthday). But today I found that
she finally has enough hair to pull together two very small pigtails!
It is perfect timing, since the warm weather is upon us and pigtails
are particularly cute with summer dresses.

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