Karl and Angela Rees

Here we are another week closer to Christmas.  We are looking forward to the holidays.  Karl was busy this last week so he could get everything done before we leave for Texas.  Hopefully he will be able to wrap things up this week.   read more »

Thanks to Becky and Wayne babysitting for us, we went on our first alone date in a long time. We went to a Christmas Party for Karl's firm at the Fairmont in San Jose. Karl sang in a firm singing group (an octet, they'd been practicing for months). Angela got a caricature done. It was fun to be on a date again.

Tuesday night Angela went to Enrichment, where they had pizza and fun.  Angela participated in a Christmas tree ornament swap—she came back a little disappointed because she had bought a nice one, and ended up with one that she didn’t like very much.  But she didn’t want to trade it away because she didn’t want to make the person who brought it feel bad (nobody else was trading either—guess most people either liked their ornaments or didn’t want to make people feel bad either).  Karl meanwhile watched Thomas and put him to bed.  When Angela came back, he went to play in his  read more »

Well we did it, or should I say he did it. Thomas is able to fall asleep on his own for bedtime. Actually, he hasn’t had too much difficulty going to bed at night since we began an earlier bedtime. Usually he is nursed to sleep then gently put in his crib.  read more »