Since the last post James and I bought a new camera. We have taken hundreds of horrible pictures and a few good ones as we are trying to learn about ISO and F-stop and all of the other things you can adjust on a non-point-and-shoot camera. I have uploaded some of them for your entertainment and they are in the gallery.

We bought Emma a pink upholstered chair for Christmas but gave it to her early. She likes to stand on it and has had it taken away several times. {wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=53533; imagefilter=include:53585,53575,53841;}

Christmas cookie decorating and Wii playing at Betsy and Matt’s house.

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We went to Holiday Nights at the Zoo (Binder Park in Battle Creek) on Saturday the 20th. It was really cold but fun. Emma liked looking at the wolves and made quiet barking noises when she saw them. She had fun riding the carousel and looking at a couple of animals up close. We saw Santa – she was scared; she listened to Mrs. Claus read a book (from a distance). We waited in line forever for a clown to make her a balloon flower. She loved that thing and carried it around for a couple of days. I’m amazed it never popped since she liked to bite it!

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We had a fun Christmas in Stevensville.

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Emma got sick on Christmas Day with high fevers, so she didn’t get to meet her new cousin, though. Her fevers persisted and we ended up going to the ER on Saturday. She has another ear infection. She’s spent the past few days sleeping and until yesterday was most comfortable sleeping while someone held her. She continued to have fevers until yesterday when she broke out in a rash. We went to the pediatrician today and they’re pretty sure she has a virus, likely Roseola, on top of the ear infection. She’s in better spirits today, though. This is her third ear infection in as many months and we’ll probably need to consider tubes if she has another. Ugh. Hopefully 2009 brings her better luck.

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