Christmas

Things here are good - tree is down, presents are put away and Thomas is still cute! He has had another language explosion just in the past few days and has a whole lot to say.....all the time. He is constantly talking about "my have idea"; "Mommy, Daddy, come see" and "I want food right now." In fact, "right now" is a new favorite of his - though not really one of ours. We are working on getting rid of it "right now" - hahahaha!

We had a good visit to Columbia for Christmas and are really glad that he finally got better while we were there. By Christmas Eve he was back to his very pleasant self and started to eat and sleep a lot more as well. He had fun building a Gingerbread house with Gammie and Pop, he read lots of books and played with lots of toys. Tom and I actually go to go out to lunch alone and then Santa was good to all of us!

Any day now

I'm hopeful this round of illness moves along a little faster than it has been. Fever was better yesterday until the evening, but has been around all day today. We're keeping it controlled with Tylenol and Motrin. After nap today it was about 102... took a little while to come down, but then he had a great late afternoon. He had more energy, a better mood and ate more than he has in almost a week. It was great to see our sweet little boy feeling better - hopefully we'll have some more of that again tomorrow. We need it- now Tom and I both have this cold and need to clean the house and pack for our trip to Columbia on Tuesday morning.

On another note bordering on giving too much information..... While we're thankful for the discovery of antibiotics and how they seem to cure his ear infection, 8 dirty diapers in one day is entirely too much.

All I want for Christmas...

......is a healthy little boy. Yucky cold lingers, terrible cough all day and night, can only sleep well propped up on Mommy......and today - a fever. Taking no chances after our last experience, we went to the pediatrician. Yep - another ear infection and another round of antibiotics.

Come on Santa, really?

Brunch

We went to a playgroup brunch today. There was a kids' table and then a lovely table for the adults. Six kids and ten adults....whew! It was great fun and as you can see ....the kids were so good!

Santa

Well, the idea of Santa sounded good and Rudolph is pretty cool, but the actual experience he wasn't so sure about. LOL!

Reflection

We have a few friends who have recently had babies. This afternoon we took some goody bags to them and checked out the new additions. One baby is a little over 2 weeks old and one is 5 days old. They are both very cute and very sweet. Thomas was great with both of them and told us later they were good babies. Our visit made me reflect a little bit on how he's changed - it's hard to remember he was ever this small.



And we're lucky he's turned out to be so great!

We did want him to talk

We did want him to talk.....and we still do.....just perhaps fewer instances of screaming "Nnnnnnnnnooooooooooo"!

Thomas is doing great transitioning back to school after a week off. They made Israeli cous cous today for snack, and apparently he loved it. I guess Tom and I will have to learn as well :-) He wasn't, however, a fan of the vegetable soup they made yesterday.

Other that that, he's talking all the time, he asks for "cuddletime" with Mommy after bath (to which I happily oblige) and he's funny. He tells us that too - he says, "My be funny." He's also quite two at times.....refusing to eat, having tantrums when he doesn't get his way and turning his head to not look at me when he's mad. We're learning to be patient, ignore and remember that he's two :)

The other day he wanted me to lift him up to the ceiling and I told him I wasn't sure I could do that - maybe only Daddy could. He looked at me with all seriousness and said, "Mommy, try!" It's a sad day that the toddler is using my words against me!