2012 Lessons - #1

Lesson learned. Never create a blog post grateful for your family's health. Your first child will end up with the 5 day puke-machine (and the other kind too) bug immediately. Your second child will get it the following week when first child is finally well enough to go back to school. And then you will get it the third week. Happy January. Resolution #1: be sure that next year's retrospective post won't be tempting fate in a way that ends up with lots of vomit.

2011 Year Review

Well, 2011 has come and gone in the blink of an eye. It was a wonderful year with many blessings and milestones. Here are the top 11 for the MitMit household, in no particular order:
1. Addie's Dora/cars 3rd birthday party & Charlotte's pinklicious 1st birthday party
2. Our 10 year wedding anniversary -celebrated with relaxing weekend away
3. Swimming lessons - Addison by herself and Charlotte with dad
4. Joined a wonderful church community (found a home at last!)
5. Oct trip to Florida/Alabama to visit family and friends
6. September vacation with family on the north shore
7. Aunt Anne weekend in Madison
8. Smith cabin
9. Healthy family!
10. Charlotte learning to walk (at last!)
11. The arrival of Max, our elf!

Big words

Favorite expressions of Charlotte (age 20 mo) this week:
- I hold it!
- not baby! (if someone tries to feed her)
- I did it!
- I beat you! (to big sister after getting dressed first)

Wonder!

Restaurant banter

Here's how it went at Sawatdee last night--
Addison (in her less-than-discrete-could-hear-her-at-least-3-tables-away voice): I smell toot. Someone tooted. Who tooted?
Charlotte: CHAR-WIT!!!

Great. Well, now that we cleared that up...