Happy 4-month birthday, Brianna!

It's January 2nd and that means Brianna is 4 months old! Unfortunately she is stuck with a really nasty cold. She was wheezing and doing so rough on Wednesday night (New Year's Eve) that Andy brought her to the ER. They did an x-ray and her lungs were thankfully fine, but she was still wheezing pretty good so they are having us do nebulizer treatments as needed. Poor baby girl!

Kaitlyn is doing good...her absolute favorite word is "No". But the way she says it is SO cute! She is making huge strides in vocabulary and verbal communication. It is just amazing to me how fast she is developing in this area - it is definitely one of her strengths.

If you know me at all you may know of my "New Year's curse". This year is no different, despite my efforts to remain positive that perhaps finding out we were pregnant with Brianna on Jan. 1st 2008, would break the curse. Instead, my dad is in the hospital with the same condition that in the past (at the same time of year 3 years ago) led to emergency surgery. Brianna was in the ER New Year's Eve. So I will have to look to next year to hopefully, finally have a crisis-free, illness-free, drama-free New Years. Even last year, creeping in the background of our excitement finding out we were pregnant, we were all sick. Kaitlyn with the stomach flu, Andy with a cold, and me with a cold plus a completely lost voice.

Enough of that! I am very excited about what this year will bring - and watching how my little girls grow and start to interact together!!