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.
What a week! We have now officially been inducted into toddlerhood. I cannot think of a time where we've ever celebrated so much Halloween. Most of it this past week. I've posted several pictures but am working backwards here. Tonight, we had some friends over to our house for trick or treating in Beau Chene. The mothers stayed back and watched the babies while the fathers hit the trick trail. Jacob was a bat this year and Patrick wore the pumpkin made by my Granny for J's first Halloween. We had a blast and Jacob really enjoyed trick or treating with friends, Lila, Bennett, Elise, Myrt, and Reece!
Saturday night we went into New Orleans for the annual Boo at the Zoo festival. We met the Parnells and the Barrois' there. Jacob went trick-or-treating but I think had more fun dancing, to be honest.
Wednesday night, I took Jacob to the club. We were solo as Patrick had tubes put in his ears and had a tongue procedure and had been very grumpy that day!
Last Sunday, we joined the Mills for Trunk or Treat at St. Timothy's Church, where Jacob attends school.
I'll post Halloween pics first and then work backwards until we get to last week.
