A few of the babies having their Valentine treat....just look at my little hostess!!!

Valentines Treats!!!

Mommy and Caroline playing golf in the yard before the play group gets to the party!

Caroline and Honey before our little Valentines Play Date happened!!! So sweet....she loved her tutu!!

I love blogs....I'm just really really bad at my own!!! ahhhh!!! I love reading everyone elses...but in the blog world especially when it comes to reading and looking at pictures of babies you have to recipocate. I'm sorry to all my readers! I am going to try to be better about blogging...Last time I blogged was like in January! Sooooo bad!! So Ill catch you up on the past few weeks. The month of February was a pretty good one for us...after Harris Jenne's birthday party when almost all the kids came down with the flu and RSV we finally got past this terrible sickness....I am sooo ready for warmer weather when we can stroll the greenway...swim at the club and dress cooler...Im also ready for a tan. When you are preggers you will do anything to look a bit more like yourself. Sweet baby Caldwell is growing in my tummy and you can see it!! Im really showing now....like pretty big already. Caroline is curious about my growing belly and often lays her head on it and says "baby". She is so amazing! We started her at the Montessori School in Cleveland this past semester and Im so very impressed by all that she is learning. The enviroment is so cool and being a former Montessori baby myself it bring back great memories when I drop her off to her class room. The headmaster is Brigetta....she is a cool German chick....when you hear the name Brigetta you think a cute little white haired lady with a thick German accent...well this Brigetta is a gorgeous, young blond with spunk and a love for teaching children. It is the neatest place and I'm so thankful that we have such an establishment in our town. To drive down an East TN road in your town and your children enters a world where German and Spanish are spoken and learning is truly hands on is a total blessing. The construction of the new house is coming along. Its the biggest project in my life right now other than growing a baby and taking care of a 20 month old and a 33 year old!! lol......It turing our gorgeous and I am soooooooo excited about getting in it...not sure we will be in before baby comes but I am hoping so. Im busy picking counter tops, sconces, stone for the patios....I love this stuff. Its going to take me a few years to decorate it...I have a wonderful decorator helping me and he had introduced me to the world of fine furnishings...ouch!!!! something really specail about really cool old pieces of furniture...I only like old furniture...not much new...weird that old is so much more $$$$
But, we are thrilled about the house, ready for the space and ready to get in!!! The next few months are going to be very very busy.....finishe house, get baby here...get out of old house and get it on on the market or rent it....hopefully fit a beach trip in somewhere!! Jonathan and I are headed to NYC for the second time this year....we are so excited...we love that city and cant wait to check into the St. Regis, unwind.....eat some really good food and enjoy a little time alone before baby number two. We have gotten pretty good at NYC.....we dont do anything touristy....only cool local stuff...we eat at local eats, go to art galleries, auction houses and of courstr I shop and normally grab lunch at Bergdorfs with one of my city girlfriends. We love visiting though I'm always sooooo happy to get home to my sweet town with all my sweet friends and put my shopping bags away and live the good, simple life that J and I adore. I was raised in a large city....moved to a small town...totally love it and can never go back unless God calls us....:)
K now for some pictures.....lets start with baby playgroup pics from Valentines...Caroline and I hosted a Valentine's Day party for our play group it was so precious. I love watching these babies grow..they are so sweet and to see each of their personalities develop is amazing. More to come....

Ryan and her daddy eating icecream!

Harris Jenne about to blow his candles out...ummm...caroline was sitting in my lap during this picture..she was quite frusterated that he didnt know how to blow the candles out...I had to restrain her from getting bossy!!!

This is one of Caroline's best friends and I adore her too...she and caroline look alot alike but are pretty different...hger mommy is Luanne..one of my dearest friends. I think Caroline and Keliamme will be great friends one day like us....right now they are the same height....but not for long....it will be like Lu and I "Mutt and Jeff"...lu is teeny tiney.....i love it!!

Kendal was not wanting the children to go upstairs during the party and I dont blame her, the first floor was being terrorized....hello she has a four month old too..who wants more to clean? But Caroline insisted and I mean through a good fit until she got her way! Ahhhh it was so frusterating. Jonathan had a meeting in Knoxville during the party so I was on my own! Normally I would not let her get her way....but I had no energy left...so we got to be the "special ones" and go upstairs to Harris's play room. Here she is sitting in one of his cool Ikea bubble seats!

All closed up in a bubble seat!!!

One of the things I love about having a kids is celebrating the big events with them! Caroline has only been to a few birthday parties in her short 19 month old life....but I always love them! Fom the getting the invite in the mail to, buying that very special present to picking which party bow and outfit we will wear! This past weekend Caroline was invited to Harris Jenne's birtday party. Harris is a cool kid....pretty much Caroline's match....they both have a little temper on them and are both tall for their age. Caroline had a ball at the party. The theme was race cars....and as with everything Kendal does it was perfect...perfect decor...perfect everything! Caroline really ate way too much sugar and I paid for it when she got sit to her tummy at midnight...next time I know that cake, icing and blue bell ice cream does not go well with her little tummy! This is pic if of Caroline and the birthday boy!! Cant even believe that Harris is Two! Our babies in pllay group are growing up fast!

A few of the babies at the Harris's birthday lunch!! Caroline would only sit at the head of the table and kept eating off everyones plate...Im going to have my hands full!

Sweet Caroline....so can we say that I really love to take pictures...this is not a good picture...I was complaining about it and my husband suprised me with my dream Camera....The Nikon d90!! Im pumped the battery is sitting on its charger as I write this...so blogging community...watch out here pretty soon you will see some kickin quality photos appearing to the cantrell blog....

My poor angel baby has had the worst luch with ear infections. Bless her heart...we finally had to give in and get tubes put in...wish I had done it sooner....this is a new kid...she has not been able to hear for so long! when she woke from her nap after her surgery we had a new baby who was saying everything we said! This pic above is of Jonathan and Caroline before the surgery just before she went it...its hard to know your little one has to go under but..praise God it only took 3 min (and $700) wish I was smart enough to be an MD....but none the less we are thankful she is doing great.

Later on after her surgery she woke up and crawled in her toy basket and he she is sucking her baby dolls tiny paci!! so funny!

Last week was Caroline Sophia's first day at the Montessori Kinder International school here in Cleveland for the semester! She loves Montessori and was very proud of her new poodle outfit! this child loves clothes (wonder where she gets that from???) Anyway this child is a total socialite and loves the interaction at school...i love the time to myself to get all my house construction meetings done...hair apt etc......its been great!!!