The Kata's

It's been a while since I last updated this thing.....
Matthew and I went on a Caribbean cruise this month for a whole week. It was so much fun, we went with my sister and Reid, and a bunch of other people from the Round Rock Express. We went to Key West, Freeport, and Nassau. Nassau was by far the best place. We spent the day at the Atlantis resort and had an amazing time! Being away from the kiddos was a much needed break, although, come about day 5, I was itching to see them.
We were welcomed home on Sunday, and then next day Tripp and Gentry were both at the doctor's office with colds. Tripp had an ear infection, conjunctivitis, and a terrible cough. Gentry had two ear infections and a fever and cough. It was a rough first week back, but things are good and healthy again. Except for one small problem.... Gentry is still not sleeping. We are going on 2 months of broken sleep. She wakes about 3 times a night screaming "mama mama mama mama" over and over again until one of us goes in there. As soon as she sees us, she climbs in her bed and goes to sleep. It is much easier to lay a pallet on the floor and sleep in their room, or have her sleep in our bed. At least that way we are getting some sleep. But I don't want to get in to the habit of that! We are not sure what to do at this point. I think she may be afraid of the dark, and needs the comfort of knowing someone is near. She could care less that Tripp is there though!

On a different note, we put up all of our Christmas decorations yesterday and went out to find a tree today. We drove 45 minutes out to a Christmas tree farm in Elgin, Texas to cut one down ourselves like we did 2 years ago. They have farm animals, cookies, games, etc for the kids, plus you ride a tractor out to pick out your tree. We knew the kids would love it. We should have called beforehand.... We arrived to find it closed and not open until the day after Thanksgiving. Nice. So frustrating! Remember people, assuming makes an ass out of you and me (ass-u-me)! We then proceeded to head back to Round Rock to Home Depot and found a great tree there.
Matthew bought a train to put around the tree and Tripp is especially thrilled with it. He loves the choo choo. Gentry was a little leery of it at first, but now enjoys it as well.