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