Catching up

On May 18th we were blessed with our beautiful baby girl, Caroline Raye. She was the pinkest baby I have ever seen. Her whole body was rosy pink and she looked around with her eyes all the time. She started out as a very laid back baby, but she has since proven to be our challenge! She just began sleeping through the night around eight months, she lets you know whenever she does not like something with a very loud scream, and I think she already thinks she is a big kid. However, she has brought so much joy into our family. Madeline adores her and has taught her so many things already. Caroline just wants to be with and do whatever her big sister is doing. She is now moving and she can light up the room with her big toothless grin. We are so blessed!

We celebrated Madeline's 4th birthday in September. It is so hard to believe that she is so big. She wanted a princess party. She met the princesses at Disneyland in March and ever since has been a huge fan. She was Cinderella of course. My sister helped me make a huge cardboard castle and I made a castle cake. We had lots of family and friends there to celebrate. It was so fun. Madeline said it was her best birthday ever and began planning her next one. She loves birthdays! Caroline was even able to get in on some of the action! It was a great day!

We sold our house officially in October, moved to our neighbors, found our house and bought it the Friday before Thanksgiving. We now live in Kalona, which is a nice small community about 15 miles south of Iowa City. It is an Amish community and Madeline loves seeing the horse and buggies every day as they go by our house. The most exciting part of moving for Madeline was getting to ride in the big UHaul with Daddy. She was also quite relieved to see that we took all of our stuff with us. She had been worried since August that she might have to leave some things behind. She is still upset that we didn't bring the pink paint from her walls. Our move has been great. We love having more space! I'll add a pic of our house later as I don't have one!