Baby Carlson's (Danielle Nicole Carlson) journey

town.........Wait hold the presses, stop the reindeer. A little story that happened last night. We finally made our way to the Mall to see if we could get a picture of santa this year with you, to use as our Christmas Card cover, since last years card was so cute. We ventured out at around 5:30pm to the Mall, parked, changed you into a beautiful Red/white dress and carried you inside the mall. We approached the area where Santa was, and set you down and attempted to walk you in to visit Santa. Luckily there was no one else in line except for one other little boy who darted and was afraid so we were beckoned to come in. you walked slowly towards him.. closer and closer, more wary with each step. Once you got within 2 to 3 feet you looked up, and immediately turned around and started walking at a quick pace towards the exit. You were going to have nothing to do with Santa.. The ringing of bells stopped you in your tracks, as you turned around to see Santa ringing his bells.. you turned around again.. curious of the sound. and again walked towards him.. you grabbed the bells and then took off again.. You were not going to give Santa your list this year, and you certainly weren't going to get close enough to touch his red furry suit.

We left the Santa Picture area, as you beelined it following mommy out of the Mall through Pennys.. you weren't distracted by anything and were focused on following Mommy away from "Santa".

Wow what a difference a year makes.. 365 days ago you were happy to sit on Santa's lap and give us the most beautiful picture. fast forward 365 days and you didn't want anything to do with him, except that he had pretty sounding bells.

All of this is ok though.. your Father didn't like Santa when he was a toddler either.. and we will just have to be more creative with this years photo. (Photoshop rings a bell). Perhaps next year, we will try again and see what happens.

That's right, Danielle you will soon be a big sister to your new brother/sister.(we haven't found out yet, but should know by the end of the year) The expected due date is 5/17/08, and your new brother/sisters blog will be babycarlson2008.blogspot.com (Don't look now as it hasn't even been created yet!) Mommy and Daddy are very excited, and you've become curious as to what's in Mommy's tummy. "baby?" you say ever so often. Your becoming quite fond of your stuffed animals Grrrr and Growl (Ty kittie, and Ty cheetah), and have come to say waa waa for water, Maa maa for your bink eat eat for when your hungry, poo poo for when you have gas or when you've actually gone, we've caught you saying "very pwetty" after seeing mommys earrings, and a baby form of thank you after receiving something. you also can saw pwees which equates to please. Your vocabulary is growing day by day. and your getting quite tall. Your in size 5 shoes now and are wearing 24 month clothes.. Your enjoying us reading you bwooks! and playing with your bawls. You urge us to tickle you more, and have given us many kisses. but above all you've learned how to Zurbert mommy and daddies tummy.. after many times of being zurberted yourself you now know how to retaliate, and it makes mommy and daddy laugh so hard when you lift up our shirt and fall upon us open mouthed and zurbert.