December 31

A little concerned about why the Grinch would want to steal Christmas.

December 30

My little Cinderella decided to read her Cinderella book to Zoe this morning, and I caught her in action. 

December 29

Caitlin and Jessie trying out a big girl bed.  Seriously, this kid is always in motion... sometimes makes it difficult to get a decent picture!

December 28

Home again, home again, jiggity jig.  Caitlin was not happy about having to go to bed tonight - she was too excited to see her Daddy again.  She was so mad about it that she threw everything out of her crib and proceeded to try to take her clothes off.  This is what Ryan found when he went up to give her Bubby back (the flash was a little bright apparently). 

December 27

I woke up around 3am and looked over at Caitlin sleeping and thought she just looked too cute in her "big girl bed" at Grandmom's house so I snapped this picture. 

December 26

Modeling her new sleeping bag/bunny costume from Ashley!  Happy 31-month birthday, Caitlin!!

December 25

Merry Christmas from 2 of the cutest little girls I know.  (I'm not biased or anything!)

December 24

First round of Christmas celebrations today!

This might just be my favorite picture from the day.  That card must have been really hard to open!


Princess Caitlin (aka Cinderella).  This little girl had a very good Christmas, part 1. :)

December 23

We celebrated our Christmas at home on Christmas Eve this year, so tonight, we prepared for Santa's arrival a day early.

Caitlin put out food on the front lawn for Santa's reindeer.


She also sampled the cookies that we left out for Santa to make sure they were ok for him.

December 22

Helping Daddy put together her new alphabet train puzzle! 

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!! (Taken with Instagram)

Ready to go look at Christmas lights!

Ready to go look at Christmas lights! (Taken with Instagram)

December 21

A rare picture with me tonight.  Thanks to Ryan for taking the camera from me to snap some pictures with my girl!

December 20

Conversations with Daddy.  I love the way she's leaning on the chair.


She also drew her first picture of something for us tonight.  The picture above is a reindeer.  He has eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair, two legs and a tail.  It's so cute watching her little imagination in action. 

December 19

We had a dinner for Ryan's work tonight, so this is the only picture I got of Caitlin. 

December 18

My little elephant after bathtime with Mommy. 

December 17

Bathtime fun with Daddy. 

December 16

Every day she looks more and more like a little girl to me.

December 15

Reunited!!  These 2 had so much fun playing together tonight.  Can't wait until next time!

December 14

Holiday party at school today!

December 13

Another trip to the fire station to see the trains.  Notice the shiny gold shoes that she HAD to wear!  Love this kid.

December 12

Ryan left for Chicago for work this morning.  Let's just say that my 3 days of single parenthood did not get off to a very good start. 

December 11

Ryan and I were finishing up dinner and chatting a bit, and she walked over and pulled out her coloring book to start coloring.  This is the first time we have ever seen her do this.

Conversations with Caitlin

This morning
Me:  "Daddy is going to pick you up from school today."  He's been out of town so I've been picking her up, but I wanted to prepare her for the fact that he'd pick her up tonight.

Caitlin: "Oh, ok.  Daddy's going to pick me up?  You going to drop me down?"  (i.e. drop me off) I know they've been working on opposites at school, so I think she figured since down was the opposite of up, that was what I was going to do.  So cute. 


Last Night: 
I took her to see the trains last night, but a requirement was that she had to eat all her dinner (and she did).  This conversation occurred on the way home from seeing the trains. 

Me: "Tomorrow, if you're a good listener and you eat all your dinner, maybe we can watch Charlie Brown's Christmas."

Caitlin:  "Ooooh.  But Mommy, I already ate all my dinner tonight, so I get to watch Charlie Brown!"

And the negotiating stage has begun, folks...

Train garden at the Elliott city fire dept. highly recommend it!

Train garden at the Elliott city fire dept. highly recommend it! (Taken with Instagram)

December 10

Checking out the Target gift book.

December 9

Breakfast with Santa 2012.  I'd say the results are a little better than last year.

December 8

Silly girl. 

December 7

This is how I found her when I went to wake her up.  She said "Mommy, I had to take off my jammies because my belly was hurting last night."

December 6

First trip to the train garden at the Ellicott City Fire Dept.  It was awesome!!  The next day Caitlin told me "Mommy, I love the trains.  I want to go back again!"

December 5

Love this little cutie. She would like to wish her cousin Stacey a very belated happy birthday!  We love you so much and are so proud of you and hope you had a wonderful day!!

December 4

Mesmerized. 

December 3

Caitlin was sick today.  I knew she wasn't feeling well when she fell asleep on the couch watching TV.  That has NEVER happened. 

December 2

This is how we go shopping in our house. 

December 1

In search of the perfect Christmas tree. 

November 30

Jammie time!  She put her jammies on all by herself tonight.  Love that little belly sticking out! 

November 29

Doesn't she look so sweet when she's sleeping. Kind of makes me forget all the toddler shenanigans. 

November 28

Someone was a member of the clean plate club tonight! 

November 27

Playing with her "jumping" bunnies tonight... I caught a picture of one in mid-air. 

November 26

Oh, this kid.  Sometimes, there really are no words.  Happy 30-month birthday, little girl!  I can't believe you are 2.5 years old already! 

Today is a new day and starting off with this doesn't hurt.

Today is a new day and starting off with this doesn't hurt. (Taken with Instagram)

Talking to Daddy (who is in Chicago) before school this morning.

Talking to Daddy (who is in Chicago) before school this morning. (Taken with Instagram)

Wishing this was a glass of wine. Not a bad substitute though.

Wishing this was a glass of wine. Not a bad substitute though. (Taken with Instagram)

November 25

Someone had a blast playing with her Nanny today!

November 24

Family tractor ride at Aunt Pat & Uncle Eric's house!  Caitlin could not get enough of the tractor rides!  She loved them!!

November 23

Such a beautiful day after Thanksgiving that we got to hang out at the playground for a little while!

November 22

Playing with her bus with Aunt Maryann at Thanksgiving.  So much to be thankful for this year.

November 21

Granddad and his 2 favorite girls.