The Week

Blogger is STUPID! I have been trying all week to post but first could not log on, then once I finally got to log on I couldn't write anything. Lame.
But since I am in Cali now and blogger seems to be working I thought I should post right away before Jeni sets me on fire for not posting often enough.
It has been a busy week for poor Andi. Monday I took her to the ENT, who said yes tubes ASAP. And ASAP happened to be the very next day. So 8 am tuesday morning Thad and I took Andi to the surgery center to have tubes put in. The surgery was quick but the anesthetic happens to make babies very cranky, so we took her home where she cried and yelled at us for an hour before going to sleep. The worst part is that she was not allowed to eat before the surgery and when it was over she was too mad and disoriented to eat so she woke up starving!
By the afternoon she was back to normal, but wednesday woke up with a cold, by the night it had turned into a cough, and Thursday morning we were back at the drs. We got some meds that are helping her nose and cough, but it wires her beyond belief. She seriously was running circles in the living room till 10:30 thursday night. Which means her walking skills have greatly improved in the last week, no dress required.
Anyway today we drove to Bako, made great time, and didn't have much trouble with Andi at all. But as usual we are all glad to be out of the car.

The Walker

We discovered yesterday that Andi actually can walk very well. She doesn't walk at home more than two or three steps at a time. We think that is because there is nothing super interesting to walk to, and if there is she knows it's faster to crawl. But yesterday at church Andi walked away from us several times, and didn't seem to have any trouble getting around. I think her motiviation at church though, is that she hates crawling in dresses. Her knees get caught in the dress and she can't move very well, so she realized at church it's easier to walk. So I think I'm just going to put her in dresses everyday untill she starts walking at home. She's still in pajamas today, but when I do get her dressed it will be a dress.

The Tree

Here are the pictures of our tree as promised. The first one is with the dimmer. . . peaceful glimmer of lights.

And this is before when we were flagging down airplanes.

Decking the Halls and side notes

I can't believe we've only been back a week! This last week Andi got her 4th ear infection. . . which means she get's tubes for her birthday, yay! I'm taking her to the ENT on the 18th for a consult so we'll see what he says, but Andi's Dr basically said 4 infections in 6 months it's almost automatic. I've had a cold all week that feels like it's turned into strep or something fun like that today, so I get to go to the Dr this week. Oh, and yesterday was the first day since we've been home that the temperature reached above 30 degrees! I hate winter!
But we did manage to find a Christmas tree this week. It's a fake one, and pre-lit, but it's really big and looks real. The only problem was that when you plug in the lights it's like having a spot light in the living room, it was so bright! So Thad spliced a dimmer into the cord so we can turn the light up and down to optimal brightness ;) And we have a bald area at the bottom of the tree where Andi kept yanking ornaments off, so we finally just took them off within her reach. Not so pretty, but when the lights are on it's nice.
We braved the cold yesterday to put our lights up outside. I wish we had more things to wrap in lights, but it was nice not to have to be in the cold that long. I'll post a pic of our lights when we get a good one. Other than that Christmas shopping is all done and projects are completes. Now Thad just has to finish papers and take finals and we are going back to Bako again ;)