Five Months Old

December 10th was Caroline's fifth month "birthday." This month she saw her first snow, and she was dedicated at church. Her weight is up to about 16 pounds, and she is very active and likes to laugh. She has a big Christmas trip ahead of her, including not only plenty of time with the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in North Carolina, but also a drive up to Philadelphia, where Galen has a conference, before we all return home to Arkansas on New Year's Eve. We are anxious to see how Caroline will do through all this, but she has been very good at home recently so we are hopeful that she has grown up enough to do okay through all the upcoming excitement.