Here's Ryan enjoying her first "real bath", not her usual wipe-down, can you say bye-bye belly button! I remember Kella crying the whole time, but Ryan seemed to enjoy the pampering. 
Happy Thanksgiving! Ryan made her first road trip to Oak-kah-koma (as Kella says). We planned our strategy and fed everyone before we left, but unfortunately leaving Dallas at 4 o' clock on a friday set our schedule back by almost 2 hours. Ugh! It made for a funny story, here goes.... We stopped at our usual spot in Atoka for potty breaks and red bull. I discovered that Kella had wet herself when we made it to the bathroom. This was after I carried her in and my arm was now wet! Back in the car, I stripped her down and found the nearest pair of pants & new panties, not matching, of course. Kipp graciously offered 2 of his t-shirts for her to now sit on in her wet car seat. I sent him in after a bag from the convenient store to put the wet clothes in, he had to explain to the clerk what it was for when she wanted to double bag our goodies after his request. The guy behind him said, "road trip, huh?" Kipp - "yeah, my daughter peed in her car seat while she was asleep" (Note to self - pack pull-ups for long distance driving where sleeping is involved.) He said, "yeah, us too. Our dog has already thrown up 3 times!" We had parked next to each other and had a good laugh when the boys returned to the car. By this time Ryan was awake and HUN-GRY, so we spent the next 20 min people watching the fine citizens of Atoka! Good times!
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I am fortunate enough to have a husband who, I think, loves Christmas more than I do. We both anxiously wait to put up the lights when it seem like our neighbors won't think we're too eager. We came home early from Sallisaw just to do our decorating. It has been so fun this year to see Christmas through Kella's eyes. Last year she would get excited, but didn't really get it, but this year has been such a joy and its only Dec. 4th!!!! We decorated "her" tree and she still gets excited every time we walk in her room. "It's christmas tree lights! Sooo spark-ah-lee!" If I can figure out how to add a video on this thing, her rendition of "Jwingle Bewls" is pretty spectacular!