Where did I go wrong?

I figured out how to make a video with my camera. Enjoy!

Watch out for the first step. It's a doozie!

I fell. I fell down my stairs and I sprained my ankle. It was only the last 4 steps but it still hurt. I had Caroline in my arms but she is ok. She was scared and began crying because I was crying. Thanks goodness Kevin was there. He has been going to a clinical sight during the week so he actually was there. He quickly put a frozen bag of veggies on my ankle. That really helped. I watched the wonderful Super Bowl from my hospital bed (the couch) with my leg propped up. Caroline, of course, decided she wanted to pick that time to crawl all over me. Kevin took today off to help me out. I made myself get up and walk a little bit and do things for myself. After Kevin left I put Caroline to bed and that went ok. Of course while I am hobbling around I will forget and turn it a certain way and it will hurt but I can manage.

Bowl Licker

I have reached the level of "best mom in the world." I taught Caroline the fine art of licking the beaters and a bowl after baking. It is a fine art and Caroline did a great job. I would give her little tastes of the brownies I was baking. Of course she was hooked. After that she couldn't get enough. So when I finally put the brownies in the oven I put a little bit of the batter left on the spoon and let her go to town. She was a pro. She licked that spoon clean!

Wordplay

It is amazing how fast Caroline is growing up. One minute she is tripping over her own feet, the next she is learning how to walk down the stairs. One day she is taking calculated steps toward me, the next she is running away from Kevin because he is chasing her. Next month she will go to nursery during church. I am excited that I get to go to class and not have to wrestle with her, but I am starting to feel some separation anxiety. Will she be OK? What if she gets tired? What if she is sleepy? I bet that she will have so much fun she won't even remember my name.
Caroline is also talking so much more. She can say "nose, shoes, and cheese." Of course it sounds more like "no, oos, and eez." The fact isn't that Caroline is talking more, it is just that my translation skills are getting better. She understands so much more. I can ask her to get Lambchop off her chair and she walks right over and does it. She is getting more and more independent. She can do so many things on her own now. My baby is growing up.

Our Halls are Decked...

The tree is up. Kevin and I debated whether or not we were going to put up a tree. We got through this every year. Is it worth the hassle? Can we keep Caroline out of it? Is it going to be in one piece through the holidays? While we were thinking about it I took Caroline with me to the grocery store. While we were there she saw a Christmas tree that was lit and decorated. She kept staring and pointing at it. I asked her if she wanted to go home and put up a Christmas tree. She said, "Yeap!" (She says that for everything right now. I asked her if she was going to cook dinner tonight and she said, "Yeap!") I took that to mean all systems go! Kevin had the tree up when we got home. He put the lights on while I put her to bed and I put ornaments up. That was involved also. I can't put up some of my favorite or prized ornaments in case she decides the tree is her new playtoy. I have some ornaments that I would cry if I lost them. So we put up ornaments that are cute and pretty and Caroline-friendly. The tree also looks a little funny because it is decorated only half way up. We put one or two ornaments where she could reach them. I want her to get comfortable with them being there even though she can't play with them. Yeah right!
The tree looks really good. We have a strand that twinkles. I love Christmas. I just got through making our Christmas cards. I am so proud of myself. I made our cards instead of settling for the ones you find at Wal-mart. Also these are 4X6 and can fit in a photo album after the holidays. Some of the old Christmas cards that we get don't fit in anything so I don't know what to do with them. I have posted our card below. I downloaded the pages from a great website: the Shabby Princess so thanks to them. I will hopefully have this printed and sent out by Monday! Fingers crossed and the creek don't rise.

Over the river and through the woods...

Dee Dee has a new house.
My mom decided that she was sick of Goldsboro and decided to sell her house. She was going to take her time selling it since the market is so soft. She called an agent, listed the house and in the first few days had 3 people who wanted to see it. She said ok and in 6 days of listing the house she had an offer that she accepted. So much for going slow. Well, she decided she needed a house to move to so she went to Wilmington and drove around with Big Peg and found a 3 bedroom house she likes. She made a low ball offer on the house and she got it! WOW!! So now we can just go home to Wilmington and see everyone.