Mason update

Mason did a great job today at his endoscopy. The doctor found some undigested food decomposing in his stomach. This is the likely culprit for his stomach pains. The doctor said the food has been in there for months and he removed the rotting food from the stomach. He doesn't know why the food didn't exit the stomach and he will undergo a gastric emptying test in the next few weeks. We go back next week for a follow up on the biopsies. We are thankful it is something minor and that they were able to find what was causing his stomach problems.

Kyra's Knock Knock Joke

K: Knock knock

C: Who's there?

K: Kyra

C: Kyra who?

K: Kyra who loves her family!

Here's hoping to a wonderful 2010

We rang in the New Year in Indiana with Rick and Cindy. Here is a picture of Ethan and Kyleigh. Ethan is my cousin Derrick's boy, he is about 4 months older than Kyleigh. We had a wonderful visit as always. Sunday Mark took the kids out on the ice. It's been a whirlwind since we have gotten back. Mark started school last night, I consider myself a single mom during the week now. I only worked Monday and Tuesday this week so that was nice. Tomorrow afternoon Mason has his endoscopy and we hope to find out the reason for his stomach problems.

One down two to go.....

Valynn got her ears pierced today as part of her Christmas present. She didn't flinch at all when they pierced it, she did very well. After some shopping we went out to eat and then came home. It's snowing again today, probably another couple of inches. We're enjoying it and it helps when it's the mid 20's or warmer with little wind. Yesterday we didn't get Kyleigh down for her nap in time that she decided to fall asleep on her own under the desk.

We've been enjoying the time at home this week, but we haven't accomplished everything we set out to do over break. We had the Johnson's over for supper last night but didn't get together with anyone else that we had planned. Tomorrow morning we're headed to Indiana to ring in the New Year with Rick, Cindy, and gang.

We wish everyone a Happy New Year....stay safe.

Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas in Illinois and are thankful that we weren't traveling this year in the Christmas Blizzard.

Christmas Eve we lounged around most of the day, watched the Polar Express, and did some prep work for supper. We had a snack of smoked salmon and shrimp before going to the candlelight Christmas Eve service at St. Timothy. After a beautiful service we came home and had a candlelight meal of oyster stew, cornish game hens, and rice pilaf on our China (the kids didn't break any). Followed by dessert of Norwegian goodies. Kyra very impatiently waited to open her gifts. Kyleigh could care less about opening gifts, she just wanted to play with everyone else's or sit on the boxes. We all got spoiled this year with gifts.

Christmas Day we opened gifts from Santa and then spent a lazy morning playing with all our new toys. No one got dressed until it was time to go to the Padilla's for our Christmas Day meals. We had a great meal and a great visit and then came home and lounged some more.

Today it's back to the grindstone. I'm going to tackle one of the kids' room and Mark is going to start staining doors. He has finished staining and varnishing all the trim work.

Have a great weekend.

Sledding

The kids went sledding before Christmas with the neighbor kids. We only had one bloody nose, Mason, he hit a tree. We got close to 2" of rain which melted all the snow. Today we woke up to over 2" of snow and we could possibly get 2 more inches. The kids will be back outside playing again today I'm sure.

Update

Kyra's culture came back negative so we are going to take the wait and see approach. If she continues complaining we'll take her back in.

Mason has an endoscopy scheduled for January 6th. He will be checked for H. Pylori, celiac disease, acid reflux, and food allergy, along with a couple of other things. The doctor said 12 out of 13 times he finds something, the other 1 time it's a pain that is unexplained.

Valynn is at a sleep over tonight. It's a bittersweet one as Allie is moving the end of January so it'll be her last one at Allie's. Kyleigh is busy being Kyleigh and having fun with her new "trick", turning the TV on and off.

Mark has been home in the afternoons all week. Kids and I are enjoying him being home. Work is going good and we see and end in sight for the semester. We are ready for Christmas, the kids can't wait to open their gifts (I'm excited about mine as well).

We wish every one a Merry Christmas!