And she's Off!

Yup, Kara is crawling.  And into EVERYthing!  You can't leave that girl alone for 2 seconds!  And her toys are TOTALLY uninteresting.  Ha!  It's not so bad when Allison is with her, she is such a good helper (too good sometimes) and will make sure she isn't getting into things she isn't supposed to or tell me.  This morning I thought they were both in the office playing, I was finishing getting ready in the bathroom and I called for Allison to come brush her teeth.  She answered me from downstairs!  So I figured I better investigate what Miss Kara was busy doing in the office...

And here she was.  Busy digging in the shredder paper.  Thankfully nothing had hit her when she pulled it over!!  And it wasn't plugged in (I haven't used it in ages!).  But oh, she was busy.  And she knew she was caught as soon as she saw me.  In fact she is usually happy to see me and instead, she was not happy to see me!  It was like, mom, go away!!  Oh, we are going to have our hands full with this one!

Oh, SO close!

Miss Kara, my busy, crazy girl!  She is so close to crawling!  She has been getting up on all 4's for a week or so now and she rocks back and forth and then does this little scoot/lunge forward for whatever it is she is trying to get to.  Between that and rolling she usually manages to get what she wants.  She is starting to move her hands now and I know it won't be long and she will be full on crawling all over!!  Oh, my baby is growing up soooo fast!!!  Can I stop time for a while??

I love these girls!!!

Special Gift

I am going back a little here, I meant to post this after Christmas...so it is a couple months old, but I still wanted to post it!

When my Grandma Lorrie was still alive she got Emma and Allison rocking chairs for Christmas (they were 11 mo. and 1 that Christmas).  They are beautiful handmade rocking chairs, a wonderful, lasting gift!  My mom still has hers from when she was a little girl that we used when we were little.  Well, my Aunt Cindy and Uncle Les surprised us and continued the tradition by giving Kara a rocking chair in Grandma Lorrie's memory.  I am so touched and happy that she will have that gift!

Here's a picture of my little nurse...or doctor to be!  Giving her sister an exam!

So True!

This was posted on FB this morning by one of our OB's.  I have to repost it because it is sooo true, someone finally put into words what we all think!  Here is the link: http://livelypasque.blogspot.com/2012/02/dear-patient-with-birth-plan.html

So much more to post...so little time!  And I need to go to bed now!  Nights last night.  We have "gone live" with EPIC at work.  It is interesting.  There are definitely some bugs in the system and I am sure we will continue to find more, but luckily we have EPIC support people there that are getting right on the issues...not that they are resolved right away though!  Anyway, enjoy and hopefully I will post more later!