Finally... a new camera

Our camera died on our recent vacation, so I haven't had a way to take pics of Tekla and post.

Tekla and I had an outing today and picked out a new camera... so here's a pic!

Eventful week!

Last week we were busily getting Tekla's big girl room put together and her transitioned to her new bed when I received some unexpected news. My dad needed a heart catherization, so the next day comes a worse phone call... dad needs bypass surgery.

So I traveled home to be with him for his surgery. We spent the night before surgery watching the Super Bowl and eating every bad thing we could think of. Surgery went fantastic and luckily he will be going home from the hospital soon.

It really hits home when your parents begin to have health problems. The realization that they will not be around forever. Not around to answer my question about a car repair or an old family recipe. Not around to play with their grandchildren. Not around to enjoy a good sporting event and to tell embarassing childhood stories about you.

It also brings into play our own mortality. I look at my family and see the coronary artery disease creeping ever so more closely to myself. I find myself thinkging about who will take care of me when I have to have bypass surgery, or worse yet, who will take care of my children.

They grow up so fast!

I apologize, know new pictures to post. Our camera is broken.

As we returned from our vacation, we put things in high gear to get ready for the arrival of Bode. We have been in the process of turning the guest room into Tekla's "big girl" room and starting to prepare ourselves mentally / physically the the new challenges a second child brings.

During the process I paused yesterday to realize that Tekla is no longer my baby, she is now my little girl. Sometimes as you think into the future and are busily preparing yourself for this and that, the little things can sneak past, very quickly!

After I got Tekla's toddler bed in place and started decorating her new room we brought her in and she immediately went to the bed to check it out. She crawled up in it, clapped, laughed, climbed into the covers and rolled around. It is as if she realized that was her bed. She even napped in her new bed today for the first time. Perhaps the transition from the crip to the bed will be easier than I anticipated. Time will tell.

He vocabularly is begining to expand as well. Several things she is saying, I thought were jibberish, until I really listened to her. The first name she began saying was Dada, followed by Nanny, finally Papa (sometimes sounds like pop pop) came out. Now she is saying Uh-oh, yes, quack quack.. things I never really noticed until I listened and watched her more closely.

In the future, I need to remind myself while preparing for the future, don't forget the here and now.