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Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas we had with my parents in Kansas City.  The weather, however, wasn't so wonderful.  We left MN last Tuesday night to try to beat "the storm of the century" by driving into Des Moines and spending the night there.  Actually, the travels down to KC were fine...it was while we were there and the way back that things got messy.  For once, we didn't have anywhere to go once we got to my parents, so the record snowfall that dumped on the KC area on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day didn't affect us.  Traveling home, though, was a different story.  The roads were slick with ice, covered with a layer of snow...Kansas and Missouri did an excellent job of plowing the roads, but Iowa failed.  Regardless, we made it home safely, and lost track counting cars in the ditch, rolled over, plowed over, etc. on the way home.  Fun! But, back to Christmas...this year's holiday with Ava was much different than last year's... This year, she was runni

Tis the Season...for Sickness!

Poor little Ava...she had a great start to the week and then she got hit with some illness mid-week.  She has a tendancy to run high fevers, so it always seems worse than it really is.  Scott stayed with her on Wednesday and I stayed home with her on Thursday.  She had her 18-month appointment scheduled for Wednesday night, so it was convenient for her doctor to look her over and determine it was just a virus.  One bummer is that we need to go back to get her 18-month vaccines...since she had a fever, she couldn't get them at that time.  The clinic finally had the H1N1 vaccine in stock, so it looks like she will get it this year. I've learned a few things from Ava being sick this week: The Disney Channel has a lot of shows that are somehow related to each other.  Ava was watching the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the morning, and I never switched the channel to something else that afternoon.  Next thing I knew, Hannah Montana was performing on a cruise ship where Zack and Cody (

Where Does the Time Go?

Both Scott and I had incredibly busy weeks at work this past week.  Add to that the snow storm and the icy roads, and I spent several hours in the car commuting each day.  Yuck!  The good news is that on the technology front, all of our equipment is in our hands!  My new camera broke (I mean, c'mon...seriously? It wasn't even a month old) so I had to exchange it this past week...my laptop was delivered earlier in the week...and our new TV was picked up yesterday morning.  My Christmas wish this year is that we can make it through the holidays without some weird, technology issue. So all of this busy-ness, plus the hectic work schedules, and yucky commutes means that we didn't take a lot of pics of Ava this week.  Which may be a good thing...she was incredibly naughty at daycare, and I'm not sure if we would have been able to get a happy picture of her.  She was put in multiple time outs almost every day.  Not for biting anymore...oh no, she's moved onto pinching,

O Christmas Tree!

Ava is fascinated with the Christmas tree!  I did put ornaments on the lower half of the tree (non-breakable), but I've had to relocate the most fascinating ones to a higher level, or someone else would do it for me!  Ava discovered a few trumpet ornaments that we have on the tree, and each night we have found her blowing in the mouthpiece part of the ornament.  I have NO idea where she got that from - we don't have any instruments in our house anymore! I love this...she's pointing to a picture of herself eating cake on her first birthday: And then she decided to read everything she could get her hands on: I caught her hiding by the Christmas tree one night (it's behind me) - so guilty! She's really started to notice my shoes...she eventually got these on both feet and was trying to walk with them! Happy girl! By the Christmas tree again! I made fudge today, and am going to attempt my mom's sugar cookie receipe tomorrow.  I