Play Group at Caroline's House

Sunday we had some of Caroline's friends from school come over to play: Alexandra (and mom Julie), Mattox (and mom April) and Brody (and mom Wendy).

The kids had a good time playing and the mom's loved catching up with each other and watching the kids interact.

Another pic

Kelley's new job

To everyone that does not know...I got a new job. I started with The Rubin Group 3 weeks ago. The Rubin Group consists of 3 lobbyists that are based out of Ft. Lauderdale. I am running the Tallahassee office and it has been challenging, but fun. It is hard to get everyone on the same page when they are in 2 different offices, but this is my goal. I am grateful that I work back downtown and only 2 blocks away from Caroline's daycare. Committee weeks start the first week in February and Session starts the first week of March so I will be busy until May. I am looking forward to the busyness of Session, but I will probably be complaining about it come mid March. I want to thank Gail Crisp and Kelly O'Neal at Floridian Partners for keeping their ear out for jobs for me. I really appreciate it!

Pictures from January

Here are some random pictures that I thought I would share:

On New Years Day, reading a book at grandma and grandpa's. The book is "Life's Little Instruction Book."

The funny hat that we wore to daycare one day last week. It was cold, but not that cold.

Sunday, Caroline was in timeout 3 times before 10am! Allie played the part of the guard dog.

Let's Go Duke

We went to the Duke/FSU Basketball game in Tallahassee so Jake could take Caroline to her first Duke game. The game started at 2:00 and that is right in the middle of Caroline's nap time so she was not her usual self, but I think she still had fun. She loved to point out that they were playing basketball or ba-ball as she calls it.

2008 National Championship Game

We watched the National Championship games at home and we were, of course, thrilled with the outcome. Go Gators!

Circus 2009

Jake and I took Caroline to the Ringling Brother Circus in Tallahassee on January 6th. Caroline had a good time watching the animal acts, but the other things she was not very interested in. Caroline watching the tigers.

We found out Caroline loves popcorn. The people in front of us had it and she kept reaching for it so Jake went and bought her some. She stuffed her face full of it all night.

Caroline liked all of the tricks the elephants did.

Caroline making a funny face!

Before the show they invite all of the kids down to the ring to see thing up close. This act (pictured above) was a lady who had trained a jack russell dog to jump through a hoop. Caroline kept saying Allie (our jack russell's name) and pointing at the dog. It was cute.

Granddaddy's house

We went to go visit my day at his house one day and took Will and Walker with us. We got some good pictures of them...

Mary cooked us some good chicken and dumplings for lunch and we took home some brownies and cookies. It was great!

Will's Birthday in Tallahassee

Caroline's cousin Will came over to Tallahassee to celebrate his 4th birthday with us at Chucky Cheese. We all had a good time playing games and eating cookie cake. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL!

Pee Pee in the Potty

Caroline got a potty seat from Santa for Christmas. On December 31st she went pee pee in the potty for the first time! She did it again on January 1st at grandma and grandpa's house and once more since then. It must be pure luck that she did this because she has not done it since and most of the time she will not even go sit on the potty. We are not expecting any miracles of her being potty trained any time soon, but we thought we would start talking about it and creating a habit. We learned our lesson of talking about things before we do them with Santa last year (read below in Christmas 2008).

Viewers be ware...I took pictures of it.

Caroline's Bike

Caroline got a bike from her grandma and grandpa for Christmas and she loves it!

Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008

Caroline had to go sit with Santa twice before we got this half way decent picture. She would cry and cling to Jake and I the first time so we went home and talked about Santa and how nice he was. I guess it worked.

We had many Christmas' this year as usual so we thought we would share pictures from all of them:

Harris Family (my mom's family)

Davis Family (Jake's mom's Family)

Grandma and Grandpa got Caroline a bike!

Aunt Peggi gave her some great books!

Our House Christmas Morning

Caroline loves unwrapping presents!

Caroline got: a Keyboard,

Puzzles,

Jillian Jiggs Books,

A tennis racket and tennis balls,

and a POTTY SEAT!

Cox Family (my dad's family)

Caroline got a cool stuffed dog from her great Aunt Frannie and we named it Mel

Caroline spilled orange juice on her so our cousin JJ lent us his favorite shirt while her shirt was washing. Its fits perfect and it is is the best colors ever!

Merry Christmas!

Tampa- Garner's and Aguiar's (Jake's Aunt and Uncle's and Jake's Sister and brother-in-law's)

Caroline had an long Christmas day so she decided to take a nap on the way to Tampa

Opening presents with Aunt Kate and Uncle (cunkle) Ed

The last present for Christmas 2008.