Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving this year with my family. It was a really fun weekend! I love holidays and spending time with family!

We need to get a family picture taken but it just hasn't worked out. So I took this one of James and Lynnlee a few days ago. I guess it will have to do for now.

Thankful

My kids have had a rough go the past week with teething, stomach flu, colds, etc. We had an experience Saturday that reminded me to be thankful through it all. We put our kids to bed Friday night without a problem. Lynnlee has had a cold but has been sleeping ok. James started to have a hoarse voice Friday evening but I assumed he was getting Lynnlee's cold but not too worried. Well around 2:00 am he started coughing and crying and sounded like a barking seal. I knew immediately it was croup. He was wheezing really bad and drooling like crazy. It was making him upset and the crying didn't help. We couldn't get him to calm down and he was having a hard time catching his breath. So I took him to the ER. Thanks goodness they were able to help him and we were back home a few hours later.

When I got home I couldn't sleep from the adrenalin rush and worry if he would be ok the rest of the night. While I was laying there I thought of 3 things I am really thankful for:

1. I'm thankful it was James and not Lynnlee who came down with Severe Croup.
2. I'm thankful Marshall didn't end up going out of town for work and it didn't happen last week when he was out of town for work.
3. I'm thankful the hospital is just minutes away!

We just watched 17 Miracles. I don't know how they made it through so much sickness without modern medicine. I rely on modern medicine and appreciate it so much!

Here are my sick kiddos on Saturday just taking it easy. Luckily James is doing a lot better. Now if we can just stay healthy through the holidays that would be awesome!

Halloween

For preschool on Friday we had a Halloween party. I made a reversible superman/batman cape for James a few weeks ago. Whenever I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he said, "Superman, Batman." So pretty much he alternated between costumes for Preschool and Halloween.

London, Grace, Benson, James, and Grandin

At the end of class we frosted cookies.

Here is James's cape. Lynnlee was Super Lynnlee. She wanted a cape just like her brother.

On Halloween we went trick-or-treating at my Mom's house with James's and Lynnlee's favorite Aunt Betsy.

James chose to be Superman for trick-or-treating.

Super Lynnlee

Yesterday our ward had a Halloween carnival. James chose to be Batman for that.

Lynnlee's pants weren't clean yet but she still wanted to be in the pictures. She was coming up with her own poses.

She's such a funny girl! Did I mention she's potty trained? Yep, she was super interested so we did the 3-Day program and she was successful!