20 months old!

Twenty months sounds so old too me. I cannot believe that she will be two so soon. How is that possible?!? She is such a sweet girl. Her vocabulary has exploded and she is speaking in sentences regularly. She understands and answers appropriately most questions. She has learned the art of climbing (not really a good thing!) and her favorite no-no spots are the swivel chair at the computer and the elliptical machine. I think she misses being able to go outside and play. She loves to go to barnes and noble because they have a large thomas the train table. We literally go about every other day because it is so close. She likes seeing the kids (most of the time). Lately she has been saying "I'm sorry". I will ask her why she is sorry and she says "Carrie Kate sorry". I think she says it when she is uncomfortable because when kiddos get too close to her she will say it. She is definitely obsessed with minnie mouse. She takes her minnie everywhere and if you look in most of the pictures this month you can find her, if you don't see her it is because she is in her other hand behind my back...she seriously loves that thing! She also loves putting on other people shoes, especially boots.

We literally dance about an hour a night. She always has a partner (usually minnie), but sometimes other friends get a turn.

Thanksgiving-unfortunately I had to work in the ICU on thanksgiving, but Mike and Caroline went to Orlando.

Maison

Apparently Bailey was a big hit with the girls!

Mike said a couple times she kind of wandered off to be alone, like she was a little overwhelmed with everything.

Daegan

Eme

Jenne and Bryan watched Caroline while we went to Mike's work Christmas party and Jenne took these pics. Notice Minnie's bow at the bottom of the first pic!

All the cousins.

My one day off in 7 fell on the Unruh thanksgiving day so we were able to go to that.

Four generations of Unruh women!

Sweet girl!

She is holding her ornament that she picked for this year. Shocking, it is a minnie and mickey ice skating. However, she would not let it go on the tree. She wanted to hold it. Of course it was dropped (or tossed) numerous times and part-by-part it fell apart. It was not put together to sustain any play time. None of it broke; it just came apart. All the pieces are now in a baggie waiting for this year to be over so they can be glued back together. It was just a little weird her holding mickey and minnie's armless, legless bodies! She has done well leaving the tree and presents alone though.

Enjoying a Poppie visit!

She loves playing in my mirror. Her shirt says ho ho ho. She keeps saying hohoho Merry Christmas! So cute!

We went to the Christmas Train which is a large area outside of Pryor that has steam trains showing the life of Jesus, multiple fun things to do and a lot of shops. We could only get tickets for 7pm start time so she was pretty tired going into it. It was also 35 degrees out, but she was a great sport. I got her the hat for Christmas so she got to open a present early! I was really surprised she left on the hat and gloves. She is very into trains because of the thomas trains, so she thought the big train was really cool! She loved seeing all the lights too.

Waiting in line for the train. It was sooooo long when we got there and we thought that it was going to take forever, but it actually went pretty fast.

We rode the carousel afterwards. She loves riding carousels but she was pretty cold and sleepy at this point. She also couldn't hold on very good with the mittens. She liked it though.

In front of the train

One of the little "streets". The area is owned by a church and the whole thing has a christian theme. Apparently during the warmer months the area is used as a rentable church retreat.

I am currently on my clinic month and the hours are wonderful. Basically 8-5. I feel like I am on vacation. I went from working 78.5/week to 40ish with weekends off! During the holiday season we have chaos, which means that you get 6 days off either at Christmas or new years. I get the 21-27 off! So so so excited. I have to work on hospital wards from 28-jan 9 covering for someone who is off. I then take my step 3 boards (which is my final general board exam I will ever have to take). I am technically on OB/Gyn during jan, but I think I will actually only work about 10 days. We head to Hawaii on Jan 17-can't wait!

19 months old!

Miss Caroline is nineteen months old! She is such a blessing and a little lady. She definitely speaks in full sentances now. Today she ran into the living room after getting dressed and told Mike "daddy I'm cute!" She likes saying "Oh Mama" when I tickle her or throw her in the air. Lately she has been saying "that's silly" at funny things. She loves watching toy story, dora and mickey mouse clubhouse, especially the hot dog song. It is amazing how many songs she can sing and actually get a lot of the words right. She is very into dancing with her friends and always has to have someone to dance with. The other day she kept piling my arms up with dolls and stuffed animals, then she decided she shouldn't leave her books out. We had to hold them in the air too! She is still taking one nap a day, but we try to let her have quiet time in the afternoon too. Sometimes she sleeps, most times she doesn't. Usually during "quiet" time, you can hear her on the monitor talking and throwing things out of her crib. My mom said she told her she was ready to go night night, so my mom put her in her crib. She was quiet for quite a while so my mom thought she had gone asleep. She heard her a little while later and went to see and she had thrown everything out of her crib. The order of her crib pile cracks me up-blankets, stuffed animals, paci and on top of the pile her socks and hairbow. It was like she couldn't find anything else so she started making things to throw. She has been trying to get her own clothes on, so i am sure it won't be too long before she figures out how to get them off.

Can you tell we like going to the zoo? She and i went again right before Halloween and they were decorating it for their big Halloween bash. She thought that was pretty cool!

I had to of course work on Halloween, but luckily I got off at a decent hour. We dressed up and took a bunch of pictures. She gave candy to two trick-or-treaters and crashed very early!

Enjoying her candy!

Feeding our adopted kittens!