Baby, it's cold outside!

Let's just say the Olson house is ready for some warm weather again. It has been around 15 degrees and lower the past few days. It makes getting out of the house pretty difficult. Grace has a minimum of two blankets wrapped around her, a hat on and some mittens, all loaded up in her car seat. But alas we have to work so we have to go out. Here is hoping it warms up soon!

After Thanksgiving we put up the tree and Grace helped decorate. Here she is hanging up her first Christmas ornament.

And posing with the tree, she likes looking at the lights.

Someday when we get a house we will have a tree bigger than 3 feet, but for now this works.

Along with Christmas come Christmas cards. I haven't done them in years, but now that we have this cute baby to show off I figure we had better send some out. Here are a few of the runner up photos. I'll let you wait to see what we picked when you receive one in the mail (and I'll post it here closer to Christmas).

And this one is priceless...I imagine she was saying something like "Geez mom, are you serious?! I don't want to pose, I want to play and I am SO not smiling for you." :o)

Lastly, an eye update for you. I took Grace to see Dr. Oliver on Thursday. He said things are looking good right now, from what he can see. He can't always get a good look since Grace moves around and also gets mad pretty quick with the bright light n her eyes. He however wants to do yet another exam under anestesia in January to make sure the retina is still attached and check the eye oil and a few other things. I was less than pleased to hear this as we hate having to have her have anestesia again, but here is hoping that when he goes in all looks good and all he has to do is look and not fix anything. I joked with him that maybe he should do the surgery before December 31 so that I wouldn't have to start paying our insurance deductible again with the new year since we are beyond max on it now, but he didn't think it was funny. I had to assure him I will do whatever for our baby, but if we can make the bills less that always helps. I thought it was humourous, but maybe you have to know me that I joke around during stressful times.

Otherwise Grace is doing well. She, Grandma G & I survived my work conference last week and we are getting excited for a visit from Aunty K and Nana this month.

Stay warm!