Yikes....where did November go? Or the beginning of December for that matter? I don't know about you but I am nowhere near being done with my Christmas shopping but surprisingly, I am not stressing about it. Well at least not too much.
November was not very kind to our family in the health department. The beginning of the month Elliott came down with a virus of some sort. She had a fever for about 4 days (which means sleepless nights for the both of us) but finally was able to bounce back. About the same time Maverick started coughing but that was all for him. I felt a little off but my guess was it was just lack of sleep and stress....I really don't like fevers! We finally were back to our healthy ways when the stomach flu hit us.....hard. Baron woke up throwing up in his bed on a Saturday night. There was late night washing of his bedding and, eventually, ours. He and I ended up spending the night on the couch where he finally got some sleep around 5 am (when the vomiting stopped). Elliott then came down with it on a Tuesday night and it was the same exact scenario but she only threw up 3x. Maverick woke up sick on Wednesday morning and by 10 Grant was home sick as well. Thankfully Elliott bounced back after 8-10 hours so I was able to focus on Mav. This is one of the times where I am extremely grateful for his feeding tube. Because of the RSS, Mav can't fast or it could potentially cause him to go hypoglycemic and we don't want that. I was able to set the pump extremely low and get pedialite & then his milk into him without making him sick. Needless to say, the washing machine was going non-stop for 4 days and almost every surface of the house had to be sanitized. I feel extremely lucky that I did not get the bug because I needed to be able to take care of my sick little family!
Baron was a champ with the bowl but the twins hated it. Maybe they thought that is why they were throwing up?!
We were all healthy by the week of Thanksgiving. We hosted Thanksgiving at our house and had a wonderful dinner with Trav/Katie/Brady, Tara/Bailey, Dave/Nancy and Grandpa Bobby. No black Friday shopping for me and we had our second Thanksgiving at the Websters on Saturday. This included us with Dave/Nancy and Joel/Shannon, Grace, Ava, Finn and Hudson. Grace and I made a two volleyball blankets while we waited for dinner and all the cousins played. Another wonderful time spent as a family!
Baron also brought home some incredibly awesome school projects. I just can't seem to part with any of it. I need to buy a scrap book (or 3) to keep everything in :)
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