Putting up Christmas Tree

Since we probably won't have much time soon, we decided to put up our Christmas tree. Landon was very excited about this. He said he didn't want to put up the tree he wanted to decorate. We had egg nog which we always did when decorating the tree while I was growing up. Landon seemed to like it. He enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree, and liked seeing the stockings. He kept telling us who's stocking was who's.

Here are a couple pictures from putting up the tree.

Landon sick, first ear infection

Greg took Landon back to the doctor on Tuesday Nov 11th because his fever seemed to stay pretty high (103ish), he wasn't getting any better, and there was a little bit of pink in his diaper (this is really why they wanted him to come in). Well he had his first ear infection in both ears (apparently pretty bad). Of course he didn't start saying his ears hurt until after that doctor visit. He got some antibiotics for the ear infection and we kept giving him Motrin and Tylenol for his fever.

On Thursday we noticed that something was coming out of his right ear. By this time Greg was sick as well, and decided to go to the doctor since it's so short until Kasey comes. So Greg is on about 5 things for cough, mucus, etc. Greg also took Landon in again on Friday because of the stuff coming out of his ear. He really seems to be feeling better, but his ear infections aren't getting better. His right ear drum had burst which was another first for him. Now we have stronger (bad tasting) antibiotics (he says it's weird and really doesn't like it. We also have to clean his ear a couple times a day and put drops in once a day. Today his ear seemed to start getting better, and so we'll see. He'll have to go back to the doctor in a week or so to make sure his ears are getting better. Hopefully Landon will be able to go back to school this week. His fever seems to be gone, and he's almost back to normal. We'll have lots of fun things to get back into like eating right (it's been get him to eat anything he'll eat), can't have blankie all the time (now he has it pretty much all day), and back to cleaning up toys and having a normal routine at night.

And on top of that my parents are sick as well. Hopefully everyone is well by end of this coming week and Kasey holds on until then.

I'm doing pretty good. Tired, but feeling good. I went to work out on Saturday which felt really good because I had not gone but once last week with the guys being sick and us not sleeping much with Landon sick. We'll see how this week goes with work. Hopefully it will start slowing down a little bit, but it hasn't so far.

Amy Stoker's shower

Amy is one of my sorority sisters that recently moved to DFW area. Amy and I are due about 3 weeks apart. I was able to go to her baby shower which was fun. She's having a second little boy, and it was fun to see little boy clothes and gifts. Here is a picture of Amy and I, and another one of Amy, Tracy and I.

Kasey update, Landon sick

All is still going well. I had an appointment on Friday Nov 7. It looks like she has started dropping. Jeanean had to move the monitor down about an inch and a half to get her heart beat. This doesn't really mean anything except that she's moving in the right direction.

Her heartbeat was in 130's/140's which is good.

We have everything washed, Kasey's bed set up in our room, the changing table downstairs with her clothes in it. We basically need to pack and finish cleaning up some stuff around the house. Needless to say I feel much better about being ready.

Landon has some kind of virus. For 3 days he's had fever, not eating or drinking much, and mainly feels like sleeping or just sitting around. Greg will probably call doctor again tomorrow just to see if there is anything else we should do to help him feel better or get him to eat. We we talked to the nurse this weekend she said there wasn't much we could do, but his fever wasn't high at that time. We'll see. Poor guy! Landon had strep throat once before, but this is really one of the first times he's been really sick.

Note that I added a Halloween entry you can check out (Oct 31).

Landon's new furniture

On Oct 23rd Landon's new furniture was delivered for his new room. He likes his bed. It's a bunk bed which of course means he wants to go to the top all of the time. We have the stairs blocked off so he can't go up, but someday he'll enjoy it. We still have to do some decoration in the room.

Here are some pictures. The pictures are of the furniture and when Landon got home from school to see his furniture for the first time. I also included some pictures of Kasey's room after Greg painted it Green.

AppleCreek Nov Party

For Landon's school party in November (Nov 2nd) we went to the Wiggly Play Center in Frisco. The kids were able to run around and play, and we got to visit a little bit as well. Landon had been there before with Grammy, and seemed to have fun with his school friends there. Here are some pictures: http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=owfrv7r.4ipgdprf&x=0&y=koxhfi&localeid=en_US

Halloween

Landon had 3 costumes for Halloween. He wore his doggy outfit for the TI Halloween playdate. On Thursday Oct 30th we went to our gym for a fun Halloween event. Landon got to dress up in his pirate costume. He had fun playing games, making a cookie, running around, bouncing on a bounce ball, and seeing some of his friends.

Landon had a few friends there. Michael and Julia from the gym were there. Also Ian (who Landon is trying to share his popcorn with), Lauren and Sarah were there from the TI moms playgroup.










On Halloween Landon got to wear his Elmo costume. Of course it was warm that night so he actually got hot, but he had fun trick or treating on our block. He would say lets go to next house and next house and next house. When he started getting tired he would say ok one more house. Landon got to go to a friend's mom's house to see some older kids before trick or treating.