Sleep? What is that?

Quiet. Peace. Sweet dreams. That is what most people are experiencing in the wee hours of the morning. Not so at my house! Last night Klara decided that she did not want to sleep. After putting her to bed at her normal bedtime (8:00ish), she slept until midnight. She then decided it was time to PARTY! I got up first to feed her and change her diaper, but those two things did not put her back to sleep. Alex got up second to try to rock her to sleep, but that did not work either. By that time it was about 1:30 am. I got up again but could not get her to go to sleep. I finally just put her on the floor and off she went! She had a great time crawling back and forth across the living room. Alex came and joined us because he could not sleep either. I took some videos to show you all a little bit of the excitement that we enjoyed very early this morning. By the way, I do not recommend early morning television. The only thing on other than infomercials was the SanFrancisco's Gay Men's Choir.....we ended up watching the Nutcracker on GPTV around 4:00 am. Fun times.

A Laughing Matter

Babies are so funny sometimes! Yesterday I got the best video ever of Klara and her little buddy Jeremiah playing together. Jeremiah (who stays with me on Mondays and Fridays) thought Klara was being rather silly, and he was laughing his little head off! It was the cutest thing ever! Enjoy!

Thanksgiving 2008

What do turkey and seizures have in common? They were both in attendance in our family this Thanksgiving. Sad, but true. I was very excited about Karrie, Brad, and Macy coming into town for Thanksgiving since we have not seen them since August. However, Karrie called us Wednesday morning and said they had to rush Macy to the ER. To make a long story short, later Wednesday afternoon they had to call an ambulance and rush Macy back to the hospital because she was having a seizure. The docs ran all kinds of tests and determined that Macy probably had a viral infection that caused a fever which caused the seizure. She is fine now, but it was quite a scare for our family. So since Karrie, Macy, and Brad were not able to come into town, Thanksgiving dinner was celebrated with just Alex, me, Klara, Mom, and Dad. We still had a great time, but we definately missed the rest of the family (Wade ate lunch with his girlfriend's family).

Klara's first Thanksgiving was very memorable! She enjoyed her first taste of real sweet potatoes (as opposed to Gerber). She seemed to enjoy them, but towards the end the new texture made her gag. She also discovered the joy of snowglobes. My mom bought her a HUGE snowglobe that blows snow around and plays music. She enjoyed watching it and slobbering on it. We also took Klara for her first trip to visit Santa! She seemed uncertain at first about whether or not she wanted to like Santa, but after seeing that Alex and I were still there she smiled long enough for a great picture! We also put up our Christmas tree and Klara had her first "No-No" lesson. She desperately wanted to grab the ornaments off the tree, but I would tell her no. She seemed to understand because she would stop her movement and begin to cry. She did this for about ten minutes. We finally had pity on her and moved her away from the Christmas tree. We could tell she had learned enough for one day!

I am ready to see Santa!

I think I can, I think I can!

Hmmm....which one should I try to grab?

Papaw and the snowglobe

Birthday, Anniversary, and Fun!

Over the weekend my family and I had loads of fun celebrating my mom and dad's 33rd wedding anniversary (Nov. 22) and my 28th birthday (Nov. 23). Yes, I am 28. I can't believe it. My sweet Alex took me, my parents, my brother Wade, and Wade's girlfriend Ashley out to eat at the Japanese restaurant here in Cleveland (I can't remember its name). We had a blast! The young man who cooked for us was hilarious! Not only was his food great, but his presentation made the night memorable. At one point he was using a red sauce bottle to add sauce to the veggies he was grilling and then he flung the bottle at my mom! However, it was only a red string that flew out of the bottle onto my mom's shirt, but we got a good laugh out of it! He then made a onion "volcano" that scared Klara out of her pants! I think she will be petrified of fire for the rest of her life! He also did some cool tricks with an egg, and he let me have a go at it. I failed miserably. My egg broke. The food was great and the fellowship was priceless!



Sunday (my actual birthday) we ate lunch at my parent's house. My mom cooked my favorite chicken pot pie, and Alex made me a Paula Dean birthday cake. I believe the cake had 2 1/2 sticks of butter in it! Now that is my kind of cake! It also had marshmallows, chocolate, brown sugar, and pecans. What more could a girl ask for?

Sunday lunch at my parents' house

My first birthday as a mommy!

I tried to flip the egg and make it twirl, but it broke.

Hmmm.....was it my mom or Klara that tasted the lemon? hehehe!

Klara and Wade's sweet girlfriend Ashley

My mom and dad on their 33rd anniversary! They have set such a good example for us!

My sweet husband!

Klara and Teddy

In order to keep track of how much Klara has grown, I have taken a picture of her ever week in the same chair with the same teddy bear. This gave me a chance to take my dear old teddy bear out of hibernation and use him again. My mamaw gave him to me (and of course Karrie got one too) when I was just a little girl. Now I hope that Klara will cherish him as much as I did. In the pictures you will notice that teddy has a blanket around his neck. That was my favorite baby blanket, and my sister and I could not sleep without it when we were little. We affectionately called them "fubbies" because we could not say "fuzzy." Anyways.....since Klara is now 35 weeks old (8 months) I thought I would post some of her teddy bear pictures so you can all see how much she has grown and changed! Here are some of my favorite ones!

1 week old

7 weeks old

16 weeks old

24 weeks old

35 weeks old

Puppy Love

Okay, so most babies enjoy chewing on toys, fingers, or pacifiers. Not Klara! Nope! She likes to chew on our dogs. She LOVES our dogs. She loves to grab their ears, tails, fur, or any part that she can get her little hands on. She just recently discovered their shiny dog tags, and now she tries to put those in her mouth whenever she can. We are fortunate to have good dogs, and they will let her do anything to them! Delilah loves to have Klara "pet" her! She will roll over onto her back and stick up her legs so that Klara can "pet" her belly. Samson just sits there with a tolerant look on his face. He is probably thinking, "Okay kid....enough already!" However, Samson does try to bring Klara his toys hoping that she will play fetch with him. She just tries to eat those also (don't worry, I never let their toys enter her mouth!).

My First Entry!

Okay, so I am totally new to this blogging thing! Alex has been wanting to start one, so I guess I will surprise him with it when he gets home from school today! I am not really sure what to write for my first blog....hmmmm.

Klara has started making the cutest face this past week. She squints her eyes and smiles really wide. I was finally able to capture it on camera!

She is also almost ready to crawl! When she is sitting up she will begin to get in a crawling position, but one of her little legs always gets stuck. I am completely content with her being stationary though because I know that once she starts crawling I will never sit still again!