Happy New Year!

Shelby on Christmas morning.

A doll stroller - her favorite!

Whew! What a great Christmas and New Year's we had. (A few more pictures are in the Month 22 Gallery and Scott is working on a cute Christmas morning video!) After a great 11 days off with the girl, we are finally returning to our regular work and school routine! We spent Christmas Eve with Scott's mom, spent Christmas morning at home and had Christmas day dinner at Scott's dad's house. The following week, we headed up to the North Carolina mountains for a 50th wedding anniversary celebration for my great aunt and uncle, and saw all of my side of the family - 25 relatives in all! Anniversary photos are in a new gallery - click here. For New Year's Eve, some friends (who also have a baby) came to stay with us and we had a fun and low key evening at home.

Shelby practices her piano skills.

She met a lot of cousins!

All throughout the week off, Scott and I kept remarking how Shelby hasn't been sick at all this winter and how she wasn't sick at all over the break. We jinxed ourselves, because she wasn't feeling well yesterday and went home early today from preschool! She has no symptoms besides a low grade fever, so we are not sure what it is. We even went to the doctor to rule out strep or ear infection. Maybe she is just suffering from a lack of her regular routine and structure! Hopefully she will feel better tomorrow. We had a great 2011 and are looking forward to an even better 2012. We were talking about potty training the other day (she went on the potty for a second time!) and remarked how we could possibly be diaper free at the end of this year. It's hard to believe time goes that fast... our little baby is growing up!