The York Family: Thanksgiving Memories

Well I meant to blog about this sooner, but we've had a crazy week. We got back Saturday night and spent Sunday doing laundry and resting and then Monday I had to run some errands with the kids and then we drove up to Silverdale for Tyler's 10th birthday dinner...still can't believe he's really 10 years old...all day Monday, Timothy kept complaining that he had an owie in his mouth and he kept pointing to the same side of his mouth so Tuesday I took him to the dentist to make sure it wasn't a cavity and thankfully his teeth looked great.

Tuesday afternoon my mom came over and gave Charlotte her first real bottle!!!! We decided it might work best, since Charlotte was asleep when my mom got there, if she just went in and picked her up out of bed and started giving the bottle to her before she was really awake and it worked and she did wake up while she was taking it and drank a whole 3 ounces!! You can only imagine what a relief that was for me, and I think her new thumb sucking habit may have helped!!

Tuesday night I took Charlotte and we went out to dinner with some of my friends from Weyerhaeuser and Brandon stayed home with Timothy and when I got home he told me that Timothy had been limping...well he was still limping Wednesday morning when he woke up and wouldn't really walk on his left foot at all and cried whenever I touched it and he has this bruise on there that he's had for at least a month now so I called the pediatrician and she said they wanted to see him, so I took him in that afternoon and told them what had been going on, he had been running a 102 temp earlier that day as well but of course by the time I get him there at almost 4pm he's had a nap and the Motrin had kicked in so the fever was gone and he's walking around just fine so the doctor said he looked fine and not to worry...he did say if the bruise is still there next week and it's not healing that the will want to look at it again and possibly do a biopsy so please pray that it goes away between now and then!!

So this morning he woke up saying again that he had a owie in his mouth, but I think it's just a sore throat. Once he drank some water and Grammy bought him a smoothie at the mall he was just fine. So as you can tell, we've had a busy week. I haven't packed anything and I feel like I've wasted four days. Oh well. On to our Thanksgiving week in Texas...

We got there on Saturday and went straight from the airport to Cracker Barrel...yum, just what I needed after a flight with an almost three year old! Sunday we went to church and had lunch at Brandon's aunt's house, Monday we got to drive back over to Houston to see our best friends the Thompsons and their three girls. We had so much fun visiting with them (even though it felt like we were yelling over three little ones the whole day - oh wait, that's exactly what we were doing) and we're so excited that we're going to be living closer to them now. We've really missed them a lot. Tuesday we did some Christmas shopping and Wednesday the guys went fishing and we went to church. Thursday for Thanksgiving the whole family came over to Brandon's parent's house. There must have been about 30 people there, it was a big crowd, but it was a lot of fun. Friday we went to the mall and out to lunch and that night we let the kids decorate a gingerbread house and opened presents. It was a fun week and of course went by too fast.

Anyway, I would love to say more, but Timothy's crying and I think "quite time" is now over...here's pictures from last week...hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Pictures with the family