We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving at our house! We haven't stayed home for Thanksgiving the last few years, but things have been so hectic and busy around here lately that we decided to stay home and have Thanksgiving ourselves. It turned out to be a really great four day weekend. We made a huge dinner even though it was just our family, and with a 22lb turkey and 6 or 7 side dishes and 6 pies!! So we got to eat leftovers all weekend and just really enjoy the down time and delicious food (if I do say so myself)!! Too bad we can't have Thanksgiving every month! :-)
We had a great Black Friday too!! Jerry stayed home with the kids and I went out at 4:00am to hit all the great deals! We were able to get the majority of our Christmas presents in one crazy seven-hour shopping spree!
On the down side, this month Nathan got an ear infection, so it was back to the hospital for us -- huge bummer!! He had to go back in to get his ear tubes reinserted and his adenoids taken out. Meanwhile the antibiotics wouldn't get rid of the infection--they were just holding it at bay, so he had to keep taking them until the surgery so that the infection wouldn't worsen before he was able to have the operation done. Anyway, on Tuesday he had the surgery and it went well. There was a lot of infection built up behind the adenoids and they were very enlarged, so it was really good that we were able to get them removed. He has a terrible time waking up from the anesthesia, so he screamed/yelled/cried for about an hour after he woke up, but by that night he was doing great and back to his normal chipper self! He doesn't seem to have any pain or discomfort from the surgery and actually was able to go back to school today!
The only medication Nate has to be on right now is ear drops twice a day (thank heavens - no more antibiotics) but he HATES getting the ear drops put in. It feels funny as they are going in his ear and he swears they hurt even though it isn't supposed to. Anyway, here he is after getting the drops in his ear. He has to lie still for several minutes to let the drops soak into the ear.
Speaking of ear infections, last week Noah went in to the doctor for a well-check and he had a pretty severe double ear infection (I was blaming all the grumpiness on teething . . oops). So they put him on amoxicillin which seemed to be working to help the ear infection, but after being on it for a week, he broke out in hives all over his whole body. So, evidently he's allergic to penicillin. Good to know for the future. Right now he is still bright red and splotchy all over, but we are hoping since we stopped giving him the antibiotic yesterday and have had him on benedryl pretty steadily that he will get over it quickly and be back to his adorable little self soon. Just a few pics to show how bad his reaction was . . . scared me to death!
Day one he just had a few splotchy dots, we weren't too worried and we didn't take any pictures. But, here he is in the morning on day two.
Evening on day two:
This morning when he woke up (day three):
I'm a little frightened about what he might look like by tomorrow morning. (HOPEFULLY BETTER)
Anyway, in general we're all doing pretty well, and everyone is growing up so fast! And, we can't wait for CHRISTMAS!!! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas holiday!!!
Here are a couple of pictures of us decorating Gingerbread houses. We went caroling and took them to our neighbors/friends for family home evening this week.
This is my new favorite picture of Jerry and the boys. I just LOVE it!
