Ok, Ok... hold on...

I know. We send out Christmas cards with our blog site listed so you can all keep up on the Ehlke family goings ons... and there are no new posts in weeks!

Well, Christmas in our house was nice. Nice and quiet. Since we couldn't travel this Christmas it was just Scott, Kathie and Braden. Braden has definitely gotten the hang of opening presents, so if you want to open any of your own presents around him, you'd better be quick!

Kathie's dad came to see us on Christmas and is returning home today. It was great to see him.

Brett's fiance Lori and her mom are also staying with us this week as they look for an apartment for Lori. So we have a full house!

We setup a new changing table for Emma. Yes, the leading name for the coming girl is Emma... I've been avoiding putting it on here just in case we change our minds, but at this point I think Braden would be confused if we changed.

That's enough for now... back to work. It's nice and quiet here too...

Baby Update

Kathie had another ultrasound yesterday. She's 5 lbs now (the baby, not Kathie) and in the 62nd percentile. Apparently she also has lots of hair because it's visible on the ultrasound. Everything looked great and even with the flu episode this week, the baby is very healthy!

We went to see the lights at Country Christmas. Braden wasn't too sure about all the Christmas lights, but he also wasn't feeling good yet. But when we went inside and saw that train display...wow! I think he'd still be there if we hadn't dragged him away. That boy loves trains!

Ehlke Weight Loss Plan

I've got Atkins beat hands down. I've lost 5.5 pounds in two days.

We have the stomach flu here. It's not pretty. Thank heaven for Grandma & Grandpa who came down Sunday morning at the drop of a hat to take care of all of us. Now we just pray they don't get it too.

It's a puke off!

Braden had a rough night, poor guy. He started puking after he went to bed last night. it appears to be something he ate, as he's fine otherwise. It was a rough night... puke every 20 minutes or so until 2:30 AM.

He's doing better today, though. I feel bad because I was playing hockey last night, so Kathie had to deal with the initial part of it. Of course I got home as fast as I could to help.

We're not sure, but we think it might have been egg nog... we gave him just a little of mine.

On the accomplishment front, Braden can now climb into the bath tub on his own. He demonstrated that ability while I was running his bath today. I stepped in the hall to get a towel and came back to find him sitting in the tub in his pajamas, playing with his bath toys.

It's a woot off!!!!

For those of you who have not discovered the newest web craze (and thus still have a life), check out www.woot.com. It's a 'sales' site that offers one deal a day, starting at midnight. Sometimes they're really good deals, some times they're ok deals. The good items sell out quickly.

Every so often they have a woot off... a woot off is when they start new deals as soon as an item sells out, causing all the 'wooters' to spend all day hitting F5 over and over again in their browsers. Which might explain why I haven't updated the blog lately...

Braden was supposed to meet with a speech therapist this week, but she had to cancel because her son was sick. So, no news on that front. But either I'm starting to understand his babbling or he's starting to at least try and use words. I still think one day he'll just rattle off a complete sentence.

We have most of the Christmas decorations done and the house is looking nice. Now if only I could find someone to shop for me...