Apparently, she likes to be called "Silly".

Oh, I do have some crazy boys!

A wireless bath

Caroline can tolerate being off her oxygen for a fair amount of time so I decided to give her a wireless bath.

I think she thought I was crazy at first!

Trying to persuade her that it was awesome!

She came around!

Birthday Party Fun

We got invited to the birthday party of some of our favorite people!

With one of the birthday boys and another one of our favorite people

The boys LOVE birthday parties!

And cake!

Our Chirstmas Break

We have had a very good, relaxing, Wii filled break. We decided to get a Wii the first couple days of the break and have had fun getting to know how to work it. The boys love Super Mario Brothers and we have stayed up late many nights trying to beat the Boss!

Early morning round of golf!

Caroline started doing this. Pretty exciting!

Our Christmas Eve present. Every year it seems like it is a surprise.

Oh my goodness! It was PJs!

We discovered how much Caroline likes having the boys sing to her. It is nice when she is fussy to be able to say, "Boys, sing to your sister." She calms immediately :)!

Christmas morning! Santa was good to us this year! The boys got new headphones in their stockings. Jack insisted on wearing them while he opened his presents even though he wasn't listening to anything.

They love their cars!

My parents and brother came on the 27th. It was so nice to have them here and get to hold Caroline and play with the boys.

Christmas with the Elsberrys on the 28th. The cousins were so excited to get yet another Christmas.

Cooper is waiting super patiently for his turn to open his next present.

We went ice skating on the 28th. The boys weren't sure about it at first.

They had these cones that they could push around to stabilize themselves. Jack kept saying, "This sure is slippery!"

Mom and Dad are natural born ice dancers :)!

Great big brothers!

New Years Eve. A friendly game of bowling amongst the cousins.

And a New Years toast between brothers. These are their Great Grandpa Taylor's champagne glasses. Here's to hoping 2011 is better than 2010!

We had a good visit with the Cardiologist on Wednesday. He was very please with how Caroline looked. He said there is no need to do the Catheterization any time soon (we were thinking it would happen in early January). She is doing so well, he doesn't want to see her again until mid February.

So far . . .

. . . this is my favorite picture of the holiday season.

Oh, I do LOVE Christmas!!

and my children seem to love it as much as I do. Well, at least these two so far.

Caroline will learn to love it as much as we do.

She already has that sweet innocence and perpetual joy. She is such a reflection of Jesus and His grace! What a blessing she is!

Unfortunately, Jack and James seem to love this part of Christmas the most . . .

I have been trying to teach them about the true meaning of Christmas. I definitely need to do a better job.

Oh, how I do love these Christmas tree pictures. I look forward to taking them for many, many years.


Some, medical updates . . . Caroline's cardiologist seemed concerned about her progress the last time we saw him. He wants to do a catheterization to check the pressures in her heart. This will be an inpatient procedure and will likely be sometime in early January. He also thought that her heart surgery would be sooner rather than later. Our next appointment with him is at the end of December so we will know more dates in a couple of weeks.

She had an appointment with the genetics counselor, nephrologist, and surgeon a couple weeks ago. They were all in Austin right across from the hospital where Caroline stayed. They were all pretty uneventful. It was pretty surreal being back there though carrying her in her carseat across the parking lot to visit the doctor instead of walking across the parking lot to go to her NICU room to visit her. She has come such a long way in a couple months. So many reasons to praise HIM this holiday season!