Bono is our president?

Current Events 101

• I asked Tatum if she could say "Barack Obama", which she did. I then asked her if she knew who that was? To which she responded "the president." I was quite impressed as we have not specifically taught her about Barack Obama. Later, just to make sure, I asked her who the president is and she replied "Barack Obama." I guess she really knows. Later that night when Eric wanted to see for himself if she could answer the question "Who is the president?" She smiled this funny smile and laughed while saying "Bono." Now that's my girl :)

Random Tatum Funnies

• In the mornings when I ask Tatum what she would like for breakfast she usually asks for things like: popcorn, fruit chewies, or pickles.

• Tatum randomly at the dinner table said "Daddy it's not my lucky day."

• First thing the other morning when Tatum came into our room and had her head laying on Eric's chest she asked "What's that I smell?" I had no idea what she was smelling. She asked it again and I asked "Is it daddy's breath?" and she said "yeah...does it smell like his toot?" Poor Eric. I assured him that most people have one or two bad morning breath days :)
  

Cuteness

• Tatum wanted to know if the baby is going to hug her when it gets here.

• Tatum likes to get a blankie and spread it out on the floor. She then gets the shape tiles from her Candy Land Game and a small spoon and proceeds to "paint glue" on the tiles. When I asked her what she is doing she said "I'm working on projalects, I'm decorashing them." It sounds so cute.
  

• Tatum also likes to put out picnics for Normandy and Tavia. She gets quite upset when they do not want to "eat" with her.

Naughty Tatum

• Tatum has started to blame Normandy for naughty things that she has done when I am not looking. I can't remember what it was the other day, but Eric and I looked at each other and were like....she just lied to us. She's just two man

• Sometimes when Tatum does something she shouldn't and I catch her she buries her head into the carpet and covers her head.

January Updates

Well the beginning of the month was quite busy for Dr. appointments for us in the Krelle house. On Monday the 5th I had a midwife appointment. I am happy to report that things are going well for baby Krelle. Heartbeat is going strong. Baby Krelle is however head up and I am hoping that this is not a preferred position. I am psycho and really want to go through natural childbirth again.

I did decide to do the blood glucose screening test, which I failed. After doing the test again on Thursday the 9th, and four blood draws later, I passed it. False positives are totally why I was going to pass, but I am happy that I fell into the false positive statistic.

Tatum had her one year eye check up on Tuesday the 6th. What a difference a year makes. I remember how upset I was upon hearing that she would need glasses. I now look back at that time and I am disappointed in my own vanity.

There have been times this year when I wanted to pull my hair out because she had been so naughty with her glasses. Especially chewing the nose pieces off whenever she got the chance. Even to the point that I was in tears one day because of two back to back visits to fix them in one day. < ---Thanks so much to the good friends who listened to all my frustrations.

Tatum has gotten so much better with wearing her glasses and I have gotten so much wiser to avoid letting her wear them in the car. I am now so thankful that our pediatrician saw that Tatum needed those glasses. Had she not caught this when she did Tatum might have had permanent eye damage. We are forever grateful for her being so thorough.

I am so happy to report that Tatum's good eye is still good and needs no correction. I am even more happy to report that her eye that has the correction needed less correction this time around. We were able to use her same frames this year and just replaced the lenses. We did put the glare proof on these ones so I am excited to see how they turn out in pictures.

Tatum has a new room!

As you can see Tatum is very happy about her big girl room! Eric has been working very hard on this room project. We decided to get new windows in both Tatum's room and the baby room. Tatum also got new carpet, new wood trim in the whole room and a closet makeover, along with a fresh new color...lemon parfait. It is truly a girly room. It was so much fun to work on finding all the right stuff.

She seems to go to sleep better in this bed than she had been in her crib, which is nice. So I would say the transition has been smooth. She doesn't get out of bed until we ask her to. I am waiting to see if the novelty wears off. Naps are a bit more sporadic, but they had been for quite awhile anyway.

On her first night in her big bed we heard a "thud" followed by a cry at about 4am. Tatum had fallen out :( We did go get a bed rail that hides away during the day. She is pretty happy about that and likes to show it to people when they come to see her new room. It's funny about what excites her. But hey, I guess if I was falling out of bed, I'd be pretty happy about it too!

New Years Eve 2009

This New Years Eve we had a great time celebrating with one of Omaha's singles ministries called GAME. It stands for Great Adventure Ministries. Check them out at www.greatadventureomaha.com. My girlfriend Lynnae was in town for one night only and her plans were to go to GAME and celebrate. Eric and I were fortunate enough to get to tag along. We checked the web-site out and saw that you could come as you are or come as your favorite 80's or 90's Rocker. Well Eric and I wouldn't miss an opportunity to "theme it out" so we hopped right on it. Eric decided to be Bono and I decided to be Gwen Stefani. After all Bono is my fave and Gwen is a rocker, who's been pretty rockin' while pregnant.

Well we got downtown and found "Rock Star" parking. Opened the door and noticed that people were dressed "normal"...couldn't a big hole appear and swallow us up now! Please :) It seems that the theme didn't really catch on this year. Oh well Eric and I had fun. We stayed in costume for about half and hour and then changed into normal attire. It was nice to catch up with old friends, some who I hadn't seen in years.

The whole place they have down there is quite impressive, not to mention the people involved in ministry there are so friendly. There is a coffee bar, two pool tables, a fooze ball table, a main room where the dance floor and stage were at (during the week used as praise and worship room), 4-5 break out rooms done up as living rooms and used as bible study rooms. What a great place for singles in Omaha to gather together and learn about God. They had a live band playing, Big Bo and the Biscuit Eaters. At midnight we did a sparkling apple juice toast and then got to sing praise and worship songs. They ended the night with pancakes for all.

It was a fun way to bring in the new year!