Thanksgiving

We went "home" for Thanksgiving and got to spend a lot of time with family. We ate lunch on Thanksgiving Day at Judd's grandparents house. The food was incredible as usual. The highlights were Bubba's dressing, the homemade macaroni and cheese, a German chocolate pie that Judd's aunt made, and turkey cookies, of course. I'm still full from that meal! That evening we went to my parents house for dinner. My mom had back surgery the week before so my dad was in charge of the meal. We had tamales and while that's not your typical Thanksgiving food, it was delicious! I didn't take many pictures at all. I guess I was too busy eating, visiting, and playing with the kids!

Campbell in his Thing 1 & Thing 2 jammies

The kids spent a lot of time outside!

Bailey riding the Wiggle Racer

Campbell drove to Memommie & Grandaddy's house.

Don't call CPS - Judd's grandparents live down the street from his parents.

At Memommie and Grandaddy's house on Thanksgiving Day

Cousins - Bailey & Beau

Our goofballs in their PJs from my Aunt Kim

We have so much to be thankful for this year!

they LOVE each other!

Book Parade

Every year, the three and four year old classes at the kids' school have a book parade. The kids dress up as their favorite book character and carry their book with them as they march around the block. The school pulls out all the stops by having a police car as an escort and the junior high band lead the way. Last year, Bailey dressed up as The Cat in the Hat. This year, she was Tinkerbell and carried a Peter Pan golden book!

Bailey marching in the parade

Group shot - not sure why she has her finger in her mouth!

She was telling Daddy to quit following her!

There she goes!

Campbell's class was outside so he got to watch from the playground.

18 months

I cannot believe that my baby boy is one and a half. Where does the time go? It seems like it was only yesterday that we were celebrating his first birthday. Now we're halfway to his second birthday. Here are a few things about our 18 month old boy:

• Stats: Weight - 26 1/2 pounds (55%); Height - 33 1/2 inches (75%)
• When he went for his 18 month well visit, they asked if he can say at least 6 words. Judd said, "More like 40!" Here are some new words he has started saying: nonna (banana), paw-ee (potty), shoe, bankie (blankie), pillow, boo (blue), wed (red), well-wo (yellow), move, stop it, light, wa-wer (water), clean up, hello, two (after we say one, he says two), five, eight, Elmo, cup, eye, mine, turkey.
• Has developed a love for bananas and grapes (he calls them balls), but is becoming uninterested in dinner.
• Still loves balls and trains. He has started throwing a ball up against the wall over and over again.
• He had strep for the first time and went through three different antibiotics before getting over it.
• He has develped a liking for Elmo! We have a few Elmo books that he likes so we finally put new batteries in Bailey's old TMX Elmo. He loves it! I turned Sesame Street on for him and when Elmo came on he went right up to the TV and said hello. So cute!
• He has given up his booster seat at the table. He refuses to sit in it and screams if we put him in it. He ends us sitting in a regular chair or in one of our laps.
• He is still a Daddy's boy and says Daddy constantly! His first two word statement was "No, Daddy!"
• Loves to wrestle with sister.
• Still goes to bed around 7:15 every night and sleeps until about 7:00 in the morning.
• Wears size 18 month clothes, can wear some 24 month shirts and pajamas.
• We thought we were done with overnight diapers because his diapers were not as full in the mornings as they used to be. It worked for a while, but after two mornings of wet pajamas, we had to go back to the overnights. On the second morning, Campbell pointed to his wet jammies and said, "tee-tee."
• He wants to sit on the potty and says "tee-tee." He has never done anything while sitting on the toilet and I'm not even close to start potty training, but if he wants to do it, we'll let him!

Sick Days

So last week was a fun one at our house. (Insert sarcasm.) It all started on our way to Waco for Baylor Homecoming. Bailey developed a stuffy nose and cough. I assumed it was allergies and gave her some meds from the mini pharmacy that I took with me. The cough continued to get worse so as soon as we got home on Saturday Judd took her to the Urgent Care Clinic in town. Unfortunately, it had closed 30 minutes before they arrived. Bailey ended up doing better that night and seemed fine all day Sunday. When she went to bed that night, she coughed and coughed and coughed. Poor baby. Judd said that if she wasn't better Monday morning, he'd take her to the pediatrician. Well, she woke up with a fever so there was no question about a visit to the doctor. She ended up having strep and started antibiotics.

Meanwhile, Campbell developed a fever on Monday while at school so he was sent home early. I had planned on taking Tuesday off to stay home with Bailey because she would not have been fever free or on antibiotics for 24 hours. Instead, I stayed home with both of them and took Campbell to the doctor to find out that he, too, had strep. He also started a round of amoxicillin. Neither one of them were 100% on Wednesday so Judd stayed home with them again. By Thursday, they were finally able to go back to school!

All was well until Campbell broke out in hives on Saturday evening! We suspected it was a reaction to the amoxicillin and called our pediatrician (you know, the one whose office phone goes directly to her cell - we love her!) She told us to give him Benadryl and an hour later go ahead and give him his evening dose of amoxicillin. The hives cleared up within 30 minutes! The next morning he was still doing fine so we gave him another dose of amoxicillin, per the doctor's instructions. When we picked him up from the nursery after church though, the hives had returned. After another call to Dr. K, we were instructed to give him Benadryl, stop the amoxicillin, and she called in a different antiobiotic for him. He began taking that on Sunday evening and had it again on Monday morning. All was good until Monday evening when he broke out in hives AGAIN! Without calling Dr. K again, we just gave him Benadryl and did not give him his antibiotic. We will call her in the morning to see what to do next. I wonder if this means he is allergic to all penicillins.

Update: We went back to the doctor on Tuesday because they wanted to test him for strep again and see if we still needed to be on antibiotics. The test was positive so the doctor put him on the only thing left for strep. She said she doesn't like to prescribe it because it can upset their stomachs. We have made sure Campbell has something on his tummy before taking the medicine and he has been fine. No upset stomach and no hives! The doctor isn't 100% convinced that he is allergic to the other two antibiotics because she said that strep itself can cause rashes/hives. She said she would give him amoxicillin again when the need arises and we'll see how he does with it.

Here are some pictures of the kids from their sick days:

They sure don't look sick, do they???