Miss Caitlyn Goes to Washington

The holiday week gave us an opportunity to go to DC and see the US Botanic Garden and the Postal Museum. The gardens were amazing and the museum was suprisingly very interesting. Did you know they have Amelia Earhart's personal stamp collection? Caitlyn mostly enjoyed running around in front of the Capitol.

Miniature Lincoln Memorial made of plant material

Christmas Morning

It looks like Caitlyn made the nice list this year. Santa left several goodies for her. The play kitchen was a big hit right away. The Tickle Me Elmo was very exciting until he started moving. She was freaked out for awhile but she's warmed up to him now.

The annual picture on the steps

Caitlyn Picks a Tree

We bundled up and headed over to Butler's Orchard to pick out a tree. We love their hot apple cider and getting to drive through the creek on the way to the trees. Its quite the expierence. It was a fun day and we found the perfect tree.

Caitlyn leads the way

"I found the one!"



Fulfilling its Christmas destiny

Twas the Night Before Christmas

And all through the house Caitlyn was sampling each and (literally) every one of Santa's cookies and Rudolph's carrots. Don't worry, she was just checking to make sure they were up to the big guy's standards.

All ready for Santa...

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Lunch with Daddy

Sometimes Caitlyn and Mommy take time out from their days of leisure and stop by Daddy's office and take him out to lunch. He loves it! Caitlyn always manages to entertain herself and everyone around her with some sort of ridiculous antics.

Most recently she spent much of her lunch twisted around in her high chair waving and saying hi to a complete group of strangers sitting at the adjacent table.

HI..........(hand waving).........HI..........HI..........(more waving) - repeat for about 30 minutes.

Luckily they found it as amusing as she did!

Christmas Card Sneak Preview/Outtakes

We finally got our Christmas cards in the mail, with almost a week to spare. Caitlyn had tons of fun during her photo shoot and we got some good (and some not so good) pictures.

Yes - that's a black eye, and it happened on Daddy's watch!

We're moving!

Hopefully there will be a house standing here in a few months...