It IS a small world after all!

This story is just too good not to put on our blog. As you know, Kara's middle name is Nickeise. Brian and I went to Belize for our honeymoon six and a half years ago, and this is where we got the name. We were staying our first night in a little hotel in town, and we got to know our bartender pretty well. His name is Brian, and he had told us that he had just had a little girl, and named her Nickeise. I told him that I loved the name, and asked if he would write it down, so I could see the spelling. He wrote the name down, and he also told us that it meant "First born baby girl." When I was pregnant, we decided that if we had a girl, we would give her the middle name of Nickeise. After all, Brian still had the piece of paper that Brian our bartender had written the name on.

Fast forward 6 1/2 years later, and wow, I have found Kara's namesake. As I often do, I was googling the name Nickeise to see if I can find anything that says the meaning, or Brian and his daughter for that matter. Well this time, I hit the JACKPOT! I googled the name, and scrolled down a little ways, and found a blog that had the name Nickeise in it. The person writing the blog had this written in her blog "He has the most intelligent little seven year old named Nickeise" I looked a little closer, and I e-mailed her to see if it was in fact Brian, and Nickeise. Well, it WAS!!!!! Veronique has sent me pictures of herself, Brian, and Nickeise! I can't believe that I have found Kara's namesake! We e-mailed a few times, and I know that Brian and I will someday have to take Kara to Belize, back to San Pedro Island, so we can all meet the little girl that we named her after.

I was so pleased that she sent us pictures, I can't wait to someday share these pictures with Kara. Nickeise is so adorable, and I am so glad that Brian and I had a chance to meet Brian, and get our daughters middle name! I have included pictures of Nickeise, and one of Brian, Veronique, and Nickeise.

It really is a small world after all!

Kara laughing, the sweetest sound!

Phone Call

Here is Kara chatting on her "phone"

Toy Diving!

Diving for Toys......

Kara has figured out how to get herself into this little toy bin all on her own! It is REALLY funny to watch her! She just figured this out this morning, and has been doing it all day long! Here are some pictures of her in the bin, and we will have a video to follow..... Only Kara!

Dare Devil!

Kara received a shopping cart from her cousins Aiden and Ava for her birthday, however, she thinks it is one like we use in the store, and tries to climb in instead! She is such a little dare devil, shades of her mother are shining through everyday!

Christmas Dress

Here is ONE of the Christmas Dresses that I bought for Kara. My mom had mentioned to me around Easter time that JCPenny's has cute little girl dresses for very reasonable prices. Well, I went back for Christmas, and boy did I get a deal! This one is more casual than the other, but SO cute! I had a work party on Friday, and brought Kara along with me. Aunt Julie dressed her all up for me, but of course she would not keep the bow in her hair. Anyway here are some pictures of her in the dress, I had already taken the tights off at this point. It was also REALLY hard to get her to stand still now that she is practically running everywhere!

Toy bins

We bought a shelf of bins for our living room to keep all of her toys organized. Kara loves to take them out, and sit in the bins. Too cute!

Cutie Pie

Here are some pictures of our little cutie pie, Kara! She is growing up way to fast. Her vocabulary is amazing, she now says:
Shoe - picks up a shoe, sock, hi, bye, mama, dada, papa, nose, no, mouth, baby, good girl, moo, meow, mine, car, uppie, down, and tickle, tickle, tickle. We think that she is the smartest baby on the planet. She also knows sign language for more, all done, and hungry. Not too shabby for 13 1/2 months!

Thanksgiving

I know that we are a little late with the Thanksgiving update, but better late than never. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Aunt Julie's house this year in Brentwood. We had two wonderfully cooked turkeys, and all the best fixin's! After dinner, Kara was chasing her cousin Aiden all around, trying to kiss him. This was the cutest thing ever, she would run after him, then corner him, and kiss him! I don't know that he was totally fond of it, but we all got a kick out of it! Here are some pictures of her trying to kiss Aiden.