So right in the middle of a very busy week at our house, Vivi Kate turned 4 months old on us. Time, it is a-flyin’! During this time, she has been awake for longer stretches of time, has been issued an actual bedtime, has moved into her big-girl crib in her own nursery, has started sitting in the bumbo seat, and has discovered how fun her hands are as toys! She also met Uncle Louis for the first time, met…
March 21 was a big day in our house, starting with none other than Caroline’s very first day of preschool! She selected her very own outfit (a new dress she received for her birthday) and she selected her matching bow. We woke up extra early so we could enjoy a waffle and some blueberries before hopping in the car (with Vivienne) for the 10 minute drive to her new school. I was lucky to find a school that could take…
Right before I returned to work, I had a few days alone. The busyness around Caroline’s birthday party was over. My parents had gone back to Florida. Mike was at work all day. The house was quiet. Everything I had set out to do on my checklist for maternity leave, I’d (pretty much) completed. I had Caroline and Vivi all to myself. And I loved it. I cherished it. I didn’t have anything on my agenda other than enjoying them,…
Caroline’s last day of daycare was on Friday, March 15th. It was so sad to end our time at such a wonderful school, made even worse by the fact that I was sick in bed with a stomach bug and didn’t even get to say a proper goodbye to her amazing teachers on her last day. (I went the following week when Caroline was at her new preschool. I just had to thank these amazing ladies for all the love,…
So we celebrated Caroline turning two with an ‘In TWO the wild’ party that was quite a grand fete! I had a great time planning this once I settled on the theme, which I selected simply because it was so fun. Toddlers wearing giraffe headbands? Um, yes please! It was a last hurrah before I went back to work, right as Caroline ended her time at CCCC, and right before our au pair arrived. Big changes were on the horizon…
So Caroline turned TWO on March 14th and if you ask her how old she is, she will tell you, “too much!” Which pretty much sums up how we feel about our sweet girl. She is loving and sassy and mischievous all at the same time and I just love spending time with her. She is an adventurer—Caroline loves going fast on the boat, high on the swing, and generally with this girl, the more bumps the better. On the…
In late February, we found ourselves unexpectedly back on a plane, Florida-bound! It was just the girls and me this time. Unfortunately, Mike had to head to Boston to tend to his sick dad. I was worried about taking care of both littles while he was away, so after a quick call to Matt and Tommie asking of it was OK to crash with them for a bit, I booked tickets and scrambled all day long on a Saturday to…