Good Bye Christmas!

I guess you could say we had an interesting Christmas this year. It started off with me catching my first pregnant cold. Of course this happened while I was away from the 22 sick kids that I have been around for the past month (and managed not to catch any of their colds). To me it did not make sense that I would get sick while having more rest and being in a less germ infested environment. Anyways, it happened, and by Christmas night I felt terrible. So, of course with all the scare of the swine flu I called my doctor on Christmas. He said not to go to the emergency room but to just stay home and get some rest. So I did and felt much better the next day. :)

My dad on the other hand did go to the emergency room on Christmas :( due to a bite on his hand from my parents sweet little kitten. It really is a good cat. He just got scared while my dad was holding him and chose to bite so he could be released. Now what seemed like a little cat bite that you could wash at home became a four day stay in the hospital bc apparently cat bites are a BIG deal... So we are all thankful that things are going to be ok, and realize that they could have been but also glad that this Christmas is over and hoping that next year will be much better! My dad is recovering nicely and should be home tomorrow, but please keep him and my mom in your prayers for a speedy recovery!

With Christmas behind us, we are now focusing on preparation for our growing baby boy. We have decided that his name will be Grady Layton Klovstad. For those of you who don't know Layton is actually Buddy's (real) first name and it is a family tradition for the first son to have his father's name as his middle name. We have all of Grady's furniture and are now working on painting the room so we (Buddy) can put it together. Here is a 6 month picture of my growing belly in front of our Christmas tree.