Caitlin's World

Today we had a playdate with Amelia and Mackenzie at Monkey Joe's. They all had a blast running around and playing with each other. Caitlin was VERY brave and wanted to go on ALL the big inflatables. We weren't sure how she would take to these big inflatables since she was intimidated a Terry's birthday party in October and didn't love them at Matthew's Alive in September. As soon as she saw Mackenzie in there she was ready to go!

Monday the news was calling for snow her in Charlotte. Anyone who lives here knows what a rare and sometime comical event. Usually they call for snow, everyone rushes out to the supermarket and buys all the milk and bread in the store and goes home an wait. More often than not we get no snow and life goes on. Tuesday we woke up to snow and a decent amount! Caitlin's daycare was delayed until 10AM so I worked from home that morning and we got to go out and play for a bit. She loved it and at first just ran circles around the backyard. Then I let Casey out and they got to play. Around 11:30 I took her into school and went into the office since the roads were fine.

We had a great Christmas. Caitlin loved every minute of the holiday season. Each day she got to open the next window of the advent calendar and eat the chocolate. That was special treat because mommy doesn't really let Caitlin have sweets like that. As soon as we walked in from school/work she would say "piece of chocolate" over and over again. Shawn and I hosted our first holiday on Christmas Eve. I don't have a lot of family here in NC, and none of Shawn's family lives here so we had a nice dinner with my grandmother, parents, brother, uncle, aunt and 2 of their 3 kids. She enjoyed opening presents and actually liked the presents and not the paper or boxes. Christmas morning I went into her room and she said "Santa here." She was one lucky girl with the amount of presents Santa brought her. Took her a while to open them, Shawn and I just enjoyed the moment. We had a nice family day at home to play with all our new toys. Mommy got a new ipod nano that I