November 20

November has been a wild month for us. Down time is very rare, if at all. All of my night time things that I like to do after the kids go to bed have not been happening. Instead, I lay down with eli to chat before he falls asleep. Almost every time, I fall asleep with him (or before him?). His bed is so comfy! Fleece sheets. Cuddled up next to a little four year old who is so sweet and thoughtful right before bed. 

So november ... 

November has brought us daddy's birthday --- 38!!!! The day of daddy's 38th birthday, we spent at children's hospital. Sammy came down (suddenly) with the enterovirus (d68-- the one that the news media keeps scaring everyone with!) well, it was scary. My poor little sammy sam couldn't breath, and nothing they were doing to help him was working.  He cried straight from 3:30 AM until 8 AM. He had about 10 breathing treatments and cried and fought me through each and every one. we had to hold him down to have an IV put in. The poor guy had steroids, magnesium, epinephrine, albuterol, nothing was working. The doctor finally decided to leave him alone for an hour so he would stop crying. And what do you know? He stopped crying, he calm down, and fell asleep. And he slowly got better. One minute they were admitting him to the ICU for continuous albuterol, and soon after they were letting us go home. 

That Sammy! He sure does like to scare his mom and dad. It brought back too many memories of the nicu right

 after he was born. Watching that oxygen saturation monitor… Getting so worried when it fell below 90.

No more Sammy!! Never again!!

The doctor sent us home with steroids and an albuterol inhaler. I hope we never have to do that  AGAIN. !!

Mike is been studying for the captains test. He's been at the library for hours and hours at a time. The test was this last Tuesday, and we're happy that the studying is over for now. 

The house is decorated for Christmas. The boys had a blast decorating and are still having a blast knocking the ornaments off the tree and putting them back on again.

We already got our first snowstorm, and both boys have an outside enjoying it. 

We also had a little Indian summer. 

Typical Ohio weather. 

Eli is obsessed with letters and words and spelling. All day every day, it's what does this spell ?? How do you spell this? He really likes to spell things like poop and pee and toot. 

Sammy talks a mile a minute. He used to be the quiet one. Not so much anymore. 

He repeats everything eli does and says. He makes his opinions heard around here. 

And last, here are a few videos...