Historic moments in the life of Kara

This past weekend marked one of the most anticipated and history moments in Kara's extensive 6.5 month childhood. To those of you without kids, this may be a "so what" but for those with kids, you'll know what I'm talking about.... Kara slept through the night! She almost did it 2 nights in a row too so we're hoping that means it wasn't a fluke! She slept for 10 hours on Saturday night and then Sunday night, she slept from about 8 till 5, was up for 15 minutes because she was hungry and then went back to sleep till 9. 13 hours - WooHoo!! Kathy is still waking up in the middle of the night wondering if Kara is alive, but I think she could get use to more than 4 hours of sleep in a row. A week ago, things had been going down hill - she was waking up almost every hour all night long - so we're excited for this change of events.

Thanksgiving is coming up this week so maybe we'll get some good pictures of Kara rubbing some mashed potatoes all over her face for the blog next week :-).

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

The Floors

As some of you may know, we decided to redo the floors in our house. Kathy was tired of the carpet and it was starting to look pretty nasty from the cats (Squirt has a stomach problem and likes to puke on the carpet). We decided that hardwood was the way to go and went out and bought some wood back in August. This was going to be a self installation job because the cost of installing would have been at least $2k and we spent our budget on the flooring. With my work schedule, it was tough to find time to install the floors (Kathy didn't want the house to be destroyed for months on end while I was traveling), but we finally made time. My dad helped me get started a few weekends ago and Kathy and I finished it up last night in the main living area. We've still got trim work to do and the hallway and office are yet to be complete, but the main living area is down and it looks great!

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New blogger

Hello! This is Kathy and Steve is teaching me how to blog. YIKES! Kara met her cousin Rex this weekend and they were so cute together. We will get a picture of them up soon! We also went to my cousin David's outdoor wedding...brrr! Kara was not a huge supporter of her coat:) Well this has been scary for me to do my first blog but I made it!

Kara's first trip

Last week, Kara took her first (of probably many) flights. She and Kathy flew out to San Jose to meet up with me while I was there for a business trip. She did really well according to Kathy and was flirting with everyone within a 2 row distance of her. There was minimal crying and she managed to sleep a little and play most of the time. Luckily Kathy had a whole row to herself, so it made it a much easier flight.

We stayed over the weekend in San Francisco and did a little sight seeing and Kara was a trooper! She just chilled in her *short* stroller all weekend. I'd say there are 2 things to note about the stroller. 1) Kara was rolling gangster style in the stroller all weekend. She would not side up straight, she was always leaned over on her side with her leg up in the air. 2) The non-umbrella stroller that Kathy bought was about 6 inches too short. We had to walk around San Fran pushing it from the side because neither one of us could walk behind the thing and push it without walking on the wheels. You'd think they would make the handle height adjustable...but they don't. The only place it was at the right height was when we were pushing Kara up one of those big hills, but who wants to walk up those all day!?

She really only had one major breakdown and that was at Alcatraz. It had been a long day and we took the night tour of Alcatraz and she was ready to eat and go to bed. She apparently didn't want to be in prison, even if only for a few hours. Maybe she'll remember that when she gets older! :-)

The trip was fun though. We enjoyed the city and having a first little family vacation. Pics of the weekend are below....as you can see, we had some good weather and some San Francisco ambiance weather.