Here are a few random pictures of Patrick from the past couple weeks. He is really getting old...six months! With age comes a healthier apetite and he'll pretty much eat anything you put in front of him, as evidenced by his big ole cheeks. Now, maybe he can teach his older brother a thing or two about enjoying a meal.
Also, note he's very, very close to sitting up by himself. Presently, he still needs a bit of support, potentially because of all that food sloshing around in his belly.
Now that Thanksgiving's over, we can formally move onto the Christmas section of the blog, starting with the traditional Breakfast with Santa feast at the Beau Chene Country Club. Nana treated Su, KK, Jacob, Patrick and I to breakfast. Unfortunately, I am unable to acknowledge her visually on the blog because her eyes were closed in every picture! I did take some good ones, though, of the rest of the family, plus Jacob and Lila and Bennett having good times. However, Jacob was honestly the only one real keen on seeing Santa especially since he scared half the room to death (adults included) with a shouting entrance into the room.
Our final Thanksgiving post comes from the day itself. We had a delicious meal at the Hebert house on Thanksgiving night. Suzanne came up with the idea of wearing the Indian head gear--I truly don't know what to call it although I had a blast helping Jacob pick out the names. Actually, the credit for the original idea should come from Ms. Alexis, Jacob's favorite teacher at school. They all made the hats and the names and Jacob was labeled Smiling Squirrel. Among other favorites that he and I came up with...Crazy Legs (Patrick), Bald Bear (Ron), Hairy Horse (Davis), and Dream Catcher (KK).
Sorry for the delayed posts. I was out of town three days last week and am getting ready to go to Grenada for three days for a business trip! Don't fret, though, I've loaded some future posts in the system which should automatically generate daily for the next couple of days.
We continue our Thanksgiving theme and this latest round came three weeks ago. Uncle Gege flew to Grenada from New York and Cousin Hayes from Chicago and the Brister family had a pre-Thanksgiving Day gathering. I am calling Gege out because he took the bulk of the pictures and I haven't seen any of them! I snapped a few including one of he and Hayes. We had a great time and the kids had even more fun. All the Brister cousins are good looking kids including Tate and Cecile, seen below.
Seems I have a bit of catching up to do. We've had quite a Thanksgiving run, culminating in a rare Thanksgiving feast with the Heberts. Normally, we go to Grenada for Thanksgiving but this year, we went two weeks early to celebrate, namely because Uncle Eugene and Cousin Hayes made long trips to see the family--even longer than ours!!! We also got to spend some time with my mom's side of the family highlighted in these pictures. We'll work through Thanksgiving over the course of the next few days.
Patrick received a good report this morning from his doctor. His ears are again flowing freely. Suzanne took the boys across the lake this morning and says the appointment took all of three minutes.
I thought this would give me good enough excuse to post a picture from the morning of the surgery. Patrick is his hospital gown.
What a week! There have certainly been highs and lows. Last Wednesday, we took Patrick to New Orleans Children's Hospital to get tubes in his ears. As mentioned, he's had four ear infections in his five months of life. Since the procedure required anesthesia, the doctor moved forward with another procedure centered around his tongue. Basically, he was tongue tied and it would've required future attention anyway so they killed two birds with one stone, in essence.
Then last Friday, Jacob kept waking up in the middle of the night. Very unusual. On his third time to wake up, he began crying profusely. I rushed into his room to discovered he'd thrown up all over himself. We felt it was a 24 hour stomach bug and proceeded with the fun filled Halloween weekend you've already read about and seen.
On Monday, Jacob went to school as usual. However, two hours into the day his teachers called Suzanne, suspecting he had pink eye. He did...in both eyes...and he himself had a severe ear infection...in both ears. Suzanne and I felt terrible for not recognizing this.
On Wednesday, Patrick began consistent screaming patterns (really earlier than Wednesday). Su was convinced something was still wrong with one of his ears. She took him to the pediatrician that day and it was discovered that some of the blood from the procedure had dried and was preventing his ear from draining properly.
Thursday, we were back at the specialist (although in her office and not in the hospital). The specialist confirmed the news, dropped some hydrogen peroxide in his ear and suctioned the blood out of his ear.
That's about all that's gone on here!!! The good news is that we've had some great doctors taking care of our boys. We are fortunate in that regard. Patrick is also very fortunate to have a doctor inside his very own home who has compassion for his health. See for yourself.
