Dear Rebecca,
                  Well, it's the last day of the year. Granny is doing a little better. Her heart attack didn't do much damage but she is still in renal failure and she still has pneumonia. I hope she can come home soon. I had planned on the two of us visiting her yesterday but it got to be so late that we didn't do it. Maybe we'll try earlier in the day today.
      That's about all I have for right now. I'll close this out. Daddy loves Rebecca!

Dear Rebecca,
               I Know it has been a very, very long time since I posted a blog to you. For that, I truly apologize. Life has been crazy for the last couple of weeks, what with me going to school and Christmas day and the situation your father mentioned at the very end of your blog. I really wish he hadn't said much regarding that issue but there you go, that's what's been going on. I was going to wait and tell you one way or another after I had another Ultrasound this coming Thursday. I'd be thrilled for you to have a little brother or sister to play with.
      I don't have much time to post a blog this morning either, unfortunately, because I have to go to work today. I want you to know that I had a FABULOUS holiday with you. Even though I think Santa Claus brought you Way, Way too much. You warm my heart on Christmas Day and every day and I want you to know that if I never have another baby, I feel so very blessed to have you in my life. I thank God for you every day and I love you more than life itself. I am looking forward to a Happy New Year with you and a happy year to come. Mommy loves Rebecca!

Dear Rebecca,
               Christmas is over and has been for five days now. The Christmas tree is down and packed away, our new portrait of Santa reading a bedtime story to a little girl is down and our new decorative plates of Santa are off the wall and safely tucked away in the big green tub we use to store our inside Christmas decorations. The outside decorations are still up for the moment but soon will be coming down and even though they are still up they went dark at midnight the day after Christmas and haven't been lit since. We are still in the process of finding places to put all of our Christmas goodies. Your favorite toy thus far seems to be your play-doh table. You also love your Little Mermaid DVD; in fact you seem to love just about all of the gifts you received this Christmas. I am having a ball with my new printer and your Mom hasn't had a chance to decide what she likes the best yet because she has been so busy with school and visits to see the doctors.
      You spent the day at daycare on the 27th and really loved it. You didn't want to leave. You are at a stage in your life where you want to interact with other children so we are happy that we can expose you to that kind of atmosphere.
      Poor Granny had a heart attack early in the hours of the 27th and is still in the hospital. She also has pneumonia and she is experiencing symptoms of renal failure. We went to see her after we picked you up from daycare. You were excited to go see Granny. We told you that we were going to see Granny but we didn't head for her house and you got kind of upset because you thought you weren't going to see her. You gave Granny a big kiss when we got to the hospital and told her that you love her. Granny was just as happy to see you as you were to see her. This is a very grave situation with Granny and everyone is nervous about her health. I sat you down this evening and told you that you needed to try very hard to remember Granny if something should happen to her in the near future. You initially told me that you couldn't do that because you had a tootsie roll in your mouth but when I asked if you could do it after you finished your tootsie roll you said that you could. I hope you do have some kind of fond memory of her. Maybe you will remember sitting in her lap sharing a fish dinner from Long John Silver's or helping Granny around her house by pulling on her walker or maybe the time you sat up in her chair with her and the two of you colored pictures. Maybe you will remember how excited you were to sneak her Christmas present, a lightweight hand vac on a stick, on her. I hope she will live another ten or more years so there will be no question of whether you will remember her or not but I honestly don't see that happening. I hope and pray I am wrong.
      Your Mom had a doctor's appointment with her ob/gyn Wednesday. She has had a pretty miserable Holiday because of the bad news concerning her cervical pregnancy. She took it harder than I had realized. After the tubal pregnancy in August we had both agreed that we wouldn't become too emotionally invested in any new pregnancies that may come along. I failed to realize that any time a woman becomes pregnant there will automatically be an emotional investment. I chalk it up to the ignorance of the male species. I wasn't as understanding and patient as I should have been and I feel like a huge jerk for that. Anyway, your Mother went to see her ob/gyn regarding her cervical pregnancy and after a new ultrasound was taken and read by experts in the field of obstetrics it was determined that the pregnancy is, with 95% certainty, in her uterus, exactly where it is supposed to be. Dr. Youkilis, the ob/gyn for your Mom when she was pregnant with you, is cautiously optimistic regarding the viability of this pregnancy. I am still trepidatious regarding this pregnancy but also cautiously optimistic. This is the same doctor that told us to consider her ectopic pregnancy an ectopic pregnancy even before he knew for sure. So he is a very cautious physician and the words he spoke to your Mom gives us hope. However, I hate to think what it would do to your Mom if problems occurred after she was told that a certain miscarriage was actually a potentially healthy pregnancy. I'm sure it would be devastating for her as it would be for me as well, but I am sure that your Mother would adjust to the reality of it and get on with the business of raising you in the most excellent fashion she has from the very beginning of your life in her womb.
      Well, it's getting late and you and I are going to go see Granny later today so I had better get in bed. Daddy loves Rebecca!

Dear Rebecca,
               Merry Christmas one last time for 2006. I always hate to see Christmas Day slip away. Your Mom & I had an absolutely exhausting Holiday. Neither one of us slept very well with the crazy sleeping conditions. I love having your Aunt Mary & Papoo Lawrence visit with us but from now on on Christmas morning it really should be just the three of us. It just feels right when it's just us three sharing the the joy and warmth that is Christmas Morning.
      Your Mom & I are going to have to have a little chat with Santa Claus next year about the shear volume of stuff he brought you. You had over fifty Christmas presents from the jolly old elf. It was way too much stuff. We had to take a break halfway through opening the presents so we could all take a nap. You know you have too many presents when you have to take a nap in between opening them.
      What all did you get from Old St. Nick? Let me see if I can recall some of the gifts. You got a brand new tricycle, a stuffed Mickey Mouse, a stuffed Spongebob, a stuffed Curious George, a pony on a stick, a broom and dustpan, foam letters for the bath, magnetic letters for the fridge, an angel, a mermaid, The Little Mermaid DVD, a Bambi DVD, March of the Penguins DVD, a DVD player, Little Mermaid cups, a Little Mermaid nightgown, Disney Princess pajama set, Disney Princess clock, a stereo trimmed in pink for your room, playdough and a playdough activity table, a whistle, a train, a doctor kit, a magic writer, accesories for the kitchen Mamaw & Papaw got for you, two Barbie dolls, a Vtech television toy, big girl panties, mega blocks, a princess tiara, a Spongebob ball, brushes and other hair care products, a new tooth brush and some new tooth paste, a Spongebob bath mat, a spongebob stool, a stuffed dog in a purse, a Wal-Mart shopping cart, an aquadoodle for the house to go along with the aquadoodle you have down at Mamaw & Papaw's, a cabbage patch baby, a dollhouse with two sets of furniture, three tickets to see the Doodlebops in concert in April, a wall climbing Spongebob and Patrick, and probably a bunch more that I am forgetting. MAry and Papoo Lawrence got you some stuff that you opened Christmas morning as well.
      Of that entire long list of wonderful items that Santa brought you the thing that you had the most fun with Christmas Morning was a massager shaped like a lady bug that I had gotten for your mother. I think your absolute favorite thing though is your tricycle. You also had a ball with the doll house later tonight after I had taken it out of the box and put it together. The magic writer and playdough table were also big hits.
      After we finished our second round of present opening we went down to the country where we had our extended family Christmas. It was really kind of sad. The attendance was dismal and it seemed that all of the food, while tasty, was primarily leftovers from Christmas Eve. Even Allison who has long been a big fan of Christmas night really didn't want to attend. Both myself and Aunt Lynn who it seems are the biggest Christmas nuts in the whole family sgree that the time has come to pull the plug on the extended family thing. As I said earlier this month or late last month, in the future we will have our Christmas night at Mamaw & Papaw's. Or at least that is my hope. I don't know what we will be doing Christmas Eve. Maybe we will take a day trip to Hazard for Christmas Eve or maybe our family in Hazard will visit us. Whatever it will be will be wondeful and it will be the only kind of Christmas that you will ever know because you will not remember the extended family celebrations just like Allison doesn't remember when the celebration took place at Granny's house on Lillard's Ferry.
      I can't wait until next year. I think that maybe next year you will really be into opening presents. You really got into Christmas this year and it warmed my heart. You know so many songs and you even have your favorite, you love the lights, the television specials, the whole Santa and his sleigh thing and all of the wonder and joy that Christmas is all about. However, you still are not the best present opener. That would be my title. I was kinda glad that you needed so much help because eventually I took over for Mom in the floor helping you and I really got into it and it was infectious because as I got more and more excited so did you. We all had big fun today. My favorite part of the day was after we got home and we all laid in the floor and played with your dollhouse.
      Well, I already have my festive desktop theme taken down and the Christmas pictures uploaded but I am sure there are things I need to take care of on the computer to set the theme back to the default blue we use. I really can't wait until next year. I have a feeling that 2007 is going to be a great year for us just as 2006 was; maybe even better. Ya know, there's only three hundred and sixty-four more days until Christmas and I am already excited. Daddy loves Rebecca but he hates to see Christmas go!

Dear Rebecca,
               Merry Christmas! I heard Santa laying out the presents earlier this morning. It was such an exciting event. I would have loved to have gone into the living room to meet him but I was afraid I would disturb him in his work. He wasn't here over twenty or so seconds. I don't know how he was able to leave all of those presents and drink his milk and eat his cookies in such a short span of time but he is Santa so he can do anything. Aunt Mary and Papaw Lawrence are here so the sleeping arrangements are kind of skewed. Papaw Lawrence is sleeping in your Mom & Dad's bed, I tried and failed to sleep on the love seat in the office and Aunt Mary and Mom are sleeping in the living room. They originally set up a pallet on the floor but I think they switched to the recliner and sofa so as to not get in Santa's way. I really wish I could have gotten some sleep. I might try to lay down again here in a minute or two.
      We all went to Mamaw & Papaw's last night. You cleaned up as you usually do for Christmas. Mamaw & Papaw got you a huge toy kitchen and you got tons of other stuff as well. I'll give you a more detailed list of your total Christmas haul when I have the chance.
      I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas in case I don't have the opportunity to do it later in the day. Daddy loves Rebecca and he loves Christmas!

Dear Rebecca,
               A not very holly jolly occurrence took place late last night and early this morning. We found out a few days ago that your Mom was pregnant again. We were both very nervous and frightened because of the events that transpired a few months ago with her tubal pregnancy. She began to have some pains yesterday afternoon and we went to the emergency room where we were told that she was indeed pregnant but the pregnancy was not in the uterus where it is supposed to be but in the lowest part of her uterus or cervix. So in other words it's not a tubal pregnancy like she had some months ago but it still is classified as an ectopic pregnancy. You must look upon this as proof that you are indeed our miracle baby.
      I'm going to close this post out for now. Christmas is One day, twenty-two hours and twenty-nine minutes away or as your Auntie Lynn and I used to call it, Christmas Eve Eve. Daddy Loves Rebecca and he still loves Christmas!

Dear Rebecca,
            I dropped you off at Day care for a few hours yesterday afternoon while I tried to clean up the house some. I don't think your Mom was too impressed with the job I did because she told me she wasn't too impressed. That was my first clue.
      When your mom got home from school yesterday afternoon we all pile into Mamaw's van with Papaw & Granny and went to Southern Lights at the Kentucky Horse park after having supper at Arby's. You absolutely loved the lights. Even more than you did last year. Eventually we let you out of your car seat and you crawled into my lap so you could see better but my lap still didn't offer you the view you wanted so you jumped down and wandered up to the front of the van where you sat on Papaw's lap as he drove. You told us all that you were helping Papaw drive. You loved anything to do with Santa or his reindeer most of all.
      We stopped near the end of the display where they have all kinds of attractions set up. First we went to the petting zoo. We saw lots and lots of goats, fluffy chickens, a camel, llama, lazy kangaroos, wild four horned mountain sheep, miniature donkeys, a camel and your Mother's favorite, a miniature Scottish Highlands cow. You like the goats most of all. You screamed with delight the whole time we were there. After the petting zoo we all took a ride on a miniature holiday train. You love trains and you thought that was a big trick. We then went inside where the shops are located and bought a fiber optic light thing for you. It looks like a duster; as a matter of fact later that evening when you were brushing it up against the window in Mamaw's van I told you to stop it and you informed me that you were dusting the window. We then had some hot cocoa that you didn't care much for because it wasn't real cocoa like Momma makes for you. We bought some kettle corn and then we headed back to the van. Mamaw & Papaw stayed in the van with Granny because she didn't feel like doing all of the walking that was required.
      After we left Southern Lights we drove around different neighborhoods looking at more lights and then we came on home. We all had a real nice time. Allison was supposed to go with us but unfortunately she got grounded and couldn't come. The plan was to wait until yesterday for you to see Santa so Allison could be there with us. It's a good thing we ran into Santa in the mall a few weeks ago because he wasn't at The Horse Park last night. It's getting frightfully close to Christmas and I am sure he is incredibly busy this time of year.
      Your mom doesn't have school tomorrow but I am going to be getting up with you again this morning because your Mother hasn't gotten to sleep in any at all this week because of school. I had better get on to bed. Your Mother told me I had to be in bed by three this morning. I don't think I will make it but it will be close. There's two days, twenty two hours and two minutes until Christmas. Daddy loves Rebecca and Christmas.

Dear Rebecca,
               Christmas is almost upon us and everyone is very excited. However, if I have to look at The Spongebob Squarepants Christmas Special much more I will go flat batty. That's the only program you have any desire to see and it has been for the past two weeks. Occasionally you'll have a hankering for Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer or as you call him, The Big Nosed Reindeer. You are quite the Christmas nut. I wonder where you got that from? You can sing along with a dozen or more Christmas songs and you can sing two, Jingle Bells and Here Comes Santa Claus all by yourself. You mangle the words or rearrange them to suit your own whims.
      As you already know your Mom is going to school this week and most of next week so I am the primary caregiver right now. That's why your hair has looked like crap all week and so has the house. I intend on really getting into cleaning up real nice tomorrow. I am very proud of your Mother. She is frightened to death that she will not pass this course or pass her state exams. I tell her she doesn't have a thing in the world to worry about because she is a very intelligent lady who has actually had experience as a nurses aid. She took a test yesterday and had the highest score in all of the class. She thinks her weakness is making beds but she came closest of anyone else in her class to getting it right. You and I know that she is doing great in her class; now if we could only convince her we'd be in good shape.
      She's been studying her lessons and reading her text book so much in the past week that she has begun to miss the two of us. She asked if we could meet her in Lexington yesterday afternoon after she got out of class. We all met up at the Wal-Mart on the north side of town and then we went to The Golden Corral for supper. We all had a real nice time and you were very well behaved. We then went over to Hamburg so your Mom could do a little bit of last minute Christmas shopping and then you and I went to Garden Ridge while your Mom went to Kohls so she could get something for me. We also went to Baby's "R" Us to purchase a new car seat for you. We had originally went over there so we could finish paying for our bedroom dresser at Value City Furniture but we were all so tired that we plum forgot about it. We went back to Wal-Mart to pick up the Explorer and we all went home. You watched a few minutes of The Spongebob Christmas Special and then both you and your Mamma went to bed. I stayed up and picked up the living room a little bit, fixed your Mom's lunch and set her coffee for in the morning. I also watched a couple of episodes of Criminal Minds, that's a show about F.B.I. criminal profilers and then I came in here to sit down and play on the computer. We had fun last night but I am afraid it might have wiped your Mom out because she practically fell asleep before I could kiss her good-night.
      Yesterday morning you woke up very early indeed. Your Mom was up getting ready to go to school and she brought you into our bedroom and laid you down with me. You kept crying for her not to leave. She felt very guilty about having to leave you but she's going to school so she can get a better paying job so we can all be just a little more comfortable and for that I admire her. After she left we both began to drift off to sleep. When I was just about out you told me in your little stern voice to quit it. I didn't know what you were talking about. I once again began to drift off when you once again told me to quite and then you said in an exasperated voice that I was making you crazy. Once again I had no clue what you were talking about. I was just about asleep for the third time when you once again told me to quit. This time when I asked you what you wanted me to quit you said that I was snoring. You are such a funny little monkey.
      We heard from the insurance company this week. They decided to total your Mom's car. We want to keep the car so they gave us a check for almost three thousand dollars for the car and sold us back the car for four hundred and fifty dollars. I am shocked that we didn't get ripped off. They also gave us another check for eighty dollars and told us that we needed to purchase a new carseat and bring the carseat that was in the car at the time of the accident back to the insurance office. We got a whole lot better car seat than the one we had.
      As a result of getting this big windfall we were able to purchase three tickets to see The Doodlebops in concert in Louisville on April Fool's day. I hope you like it. You were very well behaved when we went to see Disney Princesses on Ice but you didn't do so well when we went to see Cars at the movie theatre. I'm sure you will be just fine. You'll be almost three when we go so you will be a big girl by then.
      The day we picked up the check you and I went out Christmas shopping. We went to The Dollar Tree so you could pick stuff out for everyone on your list. You didn't do so well in there. You were very tired and you got two time-outs while we were in the store. During the first time-out when you were almost done You pushed yourself away from the wall I had you facing and announced to me that that wall had germs. You got another half minute for that even though it was cute and probably true. I told you that if you got a third one you would get a spanking. We went over to The Dollar General Store because i know how much you like it there. You forgot Granny at The Dollar Tree so you splurged a little on her and bought her a six dollar smelly candle, sweet pea. Lo and behold you got in trouble for the third time. Third strike and you get a spanking. You got three little swats once we got to the car. You and I went to Fazolis for lunch and then we went to Wal-Mart to get a few grocery items and then we came home. I had fun and even though you were such a tired and grumpy little girl I think you had fun as well apart from your two time-outs and your spanking.
      Gotta go to bed because you don't know the definition of sleeping in. There's three days, twenty-one hours thirty-four minutes until Christmas. Daddy loves Rebecca and Christmas.

Dear Rebecca,
                  You're not feeling very well right now. You had an extremely high temperature last night. You were staying with Mamaw & Papaw while your Mother and I took care of some Christmas shopping. We got down there and you were curled up in Papaw's lap and just totally out of it. Papaw would go to pat your leg and you would brush it away you were in so much pain from your high fever. We brought you home and took your temperature; it was 102 degrees and you were actually screaming. Your Mom wanted to take you to the emergency room but instead we gave you a nice long cool bath and that seemed to make you feel a whole lot better. After your bath you went to bed with Mama in our big bed. That's where you are at right now. I hope you start to feel better very soon.
      Last weekend, as I mentioned we would, we went and saw The Gospel According to Scrooge at King's Way assembly of God. Sissy was in the play. When we walked through the door she was waiting on us in her costume for the play. She saw you and put out her arms and asked you for a hug and a kiss. You hesitantly approached her and gave her your most prim and proper stranger kiss. She put you down and we walked on a few steps and then you looked up at me with a look of shock and realization, "I saw Sissy!" you exclaimed. Kristie & I both enjoyed it greatly.
      This past week was the last week I had to work for 2006. I am so glad to be off for the rest of the year. I was late to work Wednesday for maybe the second time ever in almost twenty years. I got up to go to work and gathered my clothes together and went into the living room and sat down in my chair and turned on the news and promptly went to sleep. I woke up an hour later at 6:30. I have to be at work by 6:54 so I knew I was going to have to move like the wind to get there on time. I failed miserably. I thought I was driving very fast but cars were still blowing by me so maybe I wasn't as moving as fast as I thought I was. Friday the powers that be out at General Electric let me leave an hour early and that was nice. I was supposed to leave three hours early but at the last moment they changed their minds and I was fit to be tied. At least I made a few extra dollars.
      I don't think we have mentioned your Mom's car wreck. She was waiting to turn onto Berry Avenue where Taylor Manor Nursing Home is and she was rear ended by a young girl from out of town. The car looks like crap and the insurance company, both your Mom and the girl have Kentucky Farm Bureau are dragging their feet. I would love to look into changing companies but I don't believe we would be able to get comparable rates from any place else. The car may be totaled And I don't know how that would eventually play out. We'll get screwed some way, some how, of that I am sure. Your Mom was okay and thankfully you were not with her but I hated it that it happened.
      Your Mom signed up for school to become a certified nurses assistant this past week and she had her orientation Friday night. The class is in Georgetown. She was so excited Friday night when she got out of orientation. She was bouncing all over the Explorer. I know your Mom is going to do fabulous in the class. She already is a nurses assistant but isn't certified by the sate so she is not able to get the higher paying opportunities. I am very proud of your Mother. She wants to eventually go back to college when you start going to school so she can become a registered nurse. I am glad that your Mom has found a field that she excels in and enjoys. I am glad that from now on your mom will have a career instead of just jobs. There's a huge difference in the two. I make more money than your Mom does and I have been with the same employer my entire adult life but what I have is a job and certainly not a career. That's why both your Mom & I are so adamant that you excel in school and attain a college degree in a field that you enjoy and one that will be able to support you in a comfortable manner.
      Well, it's late and I want to do a few other things here on the internet and maybe watch a little television and then I reckon I will lay down on the sofa so as not to disturb you and Mamma. There's only eight days until Christmas. I have heard that Santa is probably going overboard with your Christmas presents this year but you have been such a good girl all year that I think you probably deserve everything that Santa has for you. Daddy loves Rebecca & Christmas!

Dear Rebecca,
               It's already getting very late and your Mom just poked her head in the office and asked me when I was coming to bed. I told her shortly so this one has to be a quick one. We are going to Kings Way Assembly of God in the morning to see Allison in a play, Scrooge.
   You and Mom picked me up at work Wednesday and we went to the Fayette Mall and there you got to sit on Santa's lap and have a little conversation with him. You jumped right up there with him and had a pretty good time, I think. You had an even better time playing with all of the kids that had just seen Santa. After that you and Mom had pizza and I had Gold Star Chili at the food court there in the mall. After we ate you and I had a cocoa while your Mom had a caramel cappuccino or some such drink. You have come to love cocoa. We left the mall and went to Wal-Mart after that and then on to the house. You had a pretty good time. We all did.
      Well, I know there's more to write about but I am going to have to close this post out before your Mom comes in here again and ends up killing me. There's fifteen days until Christmas. Daddy loves Rebecca and Christmas!

Dear Rebecca,
                                    Hello my little sweetie bird. Right now you are sleeping. That's a good thing since you've been in bed for almost twenty minutes already. You definitely hate going to bed.
                  Friday afternoon you were sick so I called my co-worker and asked her if she'd be willing to trade with me for Tuesday so that I could take you to the doctor if need be. I didn't think it was necessary for you to go to the doctor with a lot of diarrhea, but I wanted to stay home and monitor you anyway just in case. Your tummy was upset so I really wasn't keen on giving you much lunch, so we spread a blanket out on your bedroom floor and made a pallet, got a few pillows, popped a big bowl of popcorn and poured us some lemonade. We popped in Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer
and watched the whole movie from one end to the other. We had a grand time you and I, eating popcorn and watching the reindeer movie. Then I tried to put you down for a nap but you weren't having any of it. So I got you up and we watched Spongebob Squarepants in the living room and fiddled around until it was time to go pick Daddy up. We stopped at Subway and got us some sandwiches and we ate them on the way home we were so hungry. When we got home we fiddled about and Daddy gave you a bath and put you to bed. I went to bed myself as we got home because I was so very tired. I had to work Saturday morning and I got to see you for a few minutes before I had to leave because you woke up for a little bit. I held you and we watched half an episode of Spongebob. You're big time into Spongebob Squarepants now little girl. I don't know why. I always thought that cartoon was just dumb. It can be funny, but whoever thought up a cartoon about an underwater sponge? I don't know.
                     Saturday evening Daddy called me at work wanting me to pick up some popcorn for Allison because she was in the mood to string popcorn. I got off a few minutes early and I went to the store to get some. I got some and I was on my way back to work to pick up another co-worker and a car rear-ended me in the behind. It shook us both up pretty bad, the driver and I, and I went to the hospital and got checked out because I have some previous back injuries. You stayed here with Sissy, Mamaw, and Papaw. We didn't get home until almost midnight and you were still up and bouncing around. You were having a grand time with Sissy and playing big. You always have a good time with your cousin Allison, whom you call Sissy. She's a sweet girl and she is so good with you. I was drugged up from the morphine and nausea medicine they had given me and you asked me if I had a cold. You can be so funny sometimes. I just thank God that you weren't in the car with me, that would have worried me like crazy. You are so much tinier than me and it could have jarred you a lot worse than it did me. It just made my middle back very, very sore.
                  You are super excited about Christmas this year, little girl. You are just like your Daddy in the regard that you love all things Christmas. Christmas is indeed a very special time of year for good little girls and boys, and it looks like you have made the nice list. I know one certain jolly fat man that has had his elves make you way, way, way too many gifts & presents. You an extra special little girl though and I am sure that jolly fat man wants you to have an extra special Christmas. Just tonight you asked Daddy if Santa was going to get you up in the morning and when he said "No, not in the morning. You still have twenty more days" you threw an ever loving fit. You are ready for it to be here. Just like Spongebob, you're ready. I think Daddy got you started way too early with all the hoopla. He had you psyched up for it two weeks before Halloween. Poor Daddy, he gets excited about Christmas in August. Well little girl, I want to fiddle around on here a bit before I hit the pillow myself. Mommy loves Rebecca!

Dear Rebecca,
               Well, here it is, December already. This is the month that Santa Claus or as you call him, much to my chagrin, Ho Ho comes to see all of the good boys & girls of the world. The Holiday Season is in full swing now and I couldn't be happier. I look forward to Christmas Day so fervently every year but I also realize that the big build up to the day is just as fun as the actual day.
      You have been a little sick the past couple of days. You don't seem to feel bad but you have had some diarrhea. The other night your cheap pullup wasn't up to the challenge of a night time episode of diarrhea. You woke up at 2:30 in the morning calling for Mama and she came to you and she called for me. I came into your bedroom and you were absolutely covered in poop. It was all over your bedsheets, your stuffed animals, your bed and everywhere else you can imagine. You hollered out in your most over the top voice, "Monster Poop! Yay me!"
      Poor little girl, you were afraid that you were going to get into trouble so you decided to put a positive spin of the whole situation. There's no way we could have even remotely been even a little put out by that situtation. We were mainly concerned with your well being and making sure that you didn't feel bad about the incident. Mama took you into your bathroom and you had a very nice shower/bath and you got to play in the tub awhile. While Mom was cleaning you up I was trying to clean up your room. I took your bed sheets and stuffed animals out of your bed and then I took your bed apart so I could scrub it down with disinfectant. We all got finished with the cleaning so we stayed up just awhile longer so you could watch a few minutes Spongebob and then all three of us were ready to get back in bed. We all got settled back down an hour after you first woke up.
      You still have the diarrhea. Mom called the pediatrician and she said that you were either getting too much protein or not enough protein. I don't think that makes much sense. We try to feed you a very balanced diet but you really don't care much for meat products. You drink plenty of milk and eat plenty of cheese though so I don't know what could be the problem. I hope you get back to normal pretty soon though.
      You seem to have a favorite Christmas song; at least it's the one you sing the most. It's Here Comes Santa Claus. It's so sweet hearing you sing that song.
      It's late and I want to watch some television so I will close out this post. Daddy loves Rebecca and Christmas!