School

Today Gabby and I went to register her for Mother's Day Out for the fall. While speaking with the director she asked if we would be interested in sending her for the rest of this year as the 1 year old classroom had 2 open spaces. As we are discussing this, Brian calls. He was getting ready to get on a plane, but he called. I took it as the first sign that this might be the right thing. Brian and I talked it through and Gabby will start school Monday. As in 5 days from now Monday. ACK!!!! I don't know if I am ready for this, but I am pretty darn sure she is. We visited the classroom this morning and she went right to the teacher and played for a few minutes. Pretty sure I'm going to drop her off on Monday and she won't notice the fact that I left. Makes a momma sad!

Please say a quick prayer for us and the poor teacher who will spend 10 hours a week with my super-active, won't sit still, and sometimes is a bully, sweet girl. She will need all the prayers she can get! Oh, and while you are at it maybe you could also say a quick one for her momma who is sad that her baby is old enough to go to MDO!

Playtime

Gabby has been fortunate to have had a lot of playtime lately with her friend Hudson. They are 3 months apart, but still have a lot of fun together! They are even getting good at sharing with one another!

Sledding!!!

Gabby wasn't so sure about sledding down a hill, but she sure did enjoy sledding around the yard!

Christmas & Chicago

We had a white Christmas! And what a wonderful Christmas it was! Santa was so good to Gabby and she is one very lucky girl. We woke up and had Christmas at our house, got ready and went over to my parents for Christmas, round 2!

After we spent Christmas day at home, we loaded the car and headed to Chicago. We left Christmas night and drove to Indy, spent the night, and made it the rest of the way the following day. It snowed from home to half

way through KY. Not fun. But we made it and we probably owe Elmo and Mickey a big thank you for entertaining Gabby!

We enjoyed spending a week in Chicago having Christmas round 3. We took Gabby sledding for the first time and Brian and I went to WI to try our hand at snowboarding. Brian is an avid skier. Me, not so much, so snowboarding wasn't a big change for me. We had a great time and were VERY sore the next day!

Like all trips, it was great to be there, but also wonderful to come home!! Happy New Year everyone!