What we're up to these days

Now that we're almost through the holidays, I thought I'd update everyone on what's going on in the Carlson household. I will be putting Christmas pictures up but as you probably know by now, I'm always a week or two late with getting pictures up.

Meredith is getting ready to start up skating and swim lessons again in January. She is getting so good at skating and she asks to go skating now. Greg took her to open skating yesterday because she knew it was Wednesday and open skating is on Wednesday. I can't wait to start her in Mites in the fall!

She is going to preschool 2 days/week now. Since I am unemployed, we decreased her time there. I'm looking into traditional preschools with programs for 5-year-olds since I don't expect to be employed and she isn't going to start Kindergarten in the fall since she misses the cutoff by one day. She is so smart though, she could easily go to kindergarten now though. I just hope she doesn't get bored. She loves to learn and ask questions about things. The other day she was taking a bath and I was upstairs doing chores. I walked into the bathroom and she had written words all over the bathtub wall. Now, I know she doesn't know how to spell Pantene and she got that off my shampoo bottle, but look at all the other words she spelled on her own! Yellow, purple, white, Meredith, mommy, daddy, Anna, Addison, etc.

This is a picture of the tag on my Christmas gift this year. She's just getting so big and growing up so fast. Could she be any cuter?

And then there's Anna. Sweet little Anna:-)

She is growing so fast too. I fear the day when she's not a baby anymore. We're in a good place with her right now. She is sleeping well and we've go a good routine established for the most part. In another month or so (when she is six months old), we'll be starting her on solid food which I'm not really looking forward to. I guess I'm just lazy and don't want to switch up the routine so I told her doctor that I was waiting as long as possible to start solids.

She continues to be a very happy and easy baby. She giggles a lot and is playing with her toys now. She does a good job at lifting her head and she's working on sitting up right now. I suspect in the next month or so, she will be sitting.

The cheeks this girl has!