I really did forget how to do this!! Should I say life has been a little busy? Since the last time I posted we have made it through Halloween, Bailey's 16th Birthday, Thanksgiving and our first "American" Christmas.
Halloween was a lot of fun with our two little Power Rangers. We attended the Halloween party at daycare and talked the boys out of going into town for "trick or treat". We stayed home and carved another pumpkin and watched a scary movie.
Our little Bailey turned 16 on Nov 10th. No Way!! It has been nice to have another driver but another worry for a mamma.
Thanksgiving was also a lot of fun and we had to have a refresher course in history. What about those pilgrims and indians and what year was it? Nothing escapes Nati and he asked the most intriguing questions. We did not make it to Yuma for the holiday and we did not have any visitors in Wyoming either. It was just the boys and Clint and I. I still made a traditional Thanksgiving meal and I have to say we all enjoyed it very much. 
Christmas soon followed it seemed like days in between. We also had our first visit with santa. Our Christmas plans for Mexico were put to the side when my father ended up in the hospital with an emergent aneurysm in his knee and a blood clot. We had planned on leaving for Mexico on the 20th of December with all of our family, 18 in all. The plan has been in the works for years for mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary. We could not go without them!! Thank goodness for trip insurance, we just have all the paperwork to do now. The good news is that my dad is doing better even though he is back in the hospital as I write this for an infection in his incision. We pray that he will go home tomorrow. 
We had to go to "plan B", we just didn't know what it was. We made a quick trip to Yuma to visit my family there for a weekend. Aaron and Erica came for the week of Christmas and the girl's came back from Yuma for Christmas and the days following. Sierra is back in Yuma with her father for a few days and all the kid's go back to school on the 5th of January. 
Aaron will return to Ithaca, NY, Erica will continue to work in Boulder until she hears about interviews for vet school in the spring. Sierra has a visit at the Aveda Institute in Denver on January 21st and Bailey continues to play Basketball and she is keeping her sights on track in the spring. Nati will start indoor soccer in January and Kidus just continues to be too cute for his own good.
We continue to feel so fortunate and blessed to have these two little boys in our life. We have had a few scares this fall with health concerns for both boys. Nati had surgery for an undescended testicle and really did well. He now is a "boxer" boy instead of briefs. HA! Poor kid! Kidus had a visit at Children's Hospital in Denver and we did have quite a scare. His Hepatitis has caused his liver enzymes to be elevated for several months now and Dr. Sundaram told us that if they remain elevated we would have to have liver biopsy and possibly start treatment for his Hepatitis. We repeated the labs and they were back to normal. It truly was an eye opener for us. We were that close to treatment? There are no great options for treatment and none of them are very effective and have bad side affects. We may have to tackle this at some time in his young life but we hope that we can put it off as long as possible.
Clint and I continue to be very busy at the clinic. We want to wish all our staff and couragious patients a blessed and hopeful new year.
Halloween was a lot of fun with our two little Power Rangers. We attended the Halloween party at daycare and talked the boys out of going into town for "trick or treat". We stayed home and carved another pumpkin and watched a scary movie.
Our little Bailey turned 16 on Nov 10th. No Way!! It has been nice to have another driver but another worry for a mamma.
Thanksgiving was also a lot of fun and we had to have a refresher course in history. What about those pilgrims and indians and what year was it? Nothing escapes Nati and he asked the most intriguing questions. We did not make it to Yuma for the holiday and we did not have any visitors in Wyoming either. It was just the boys and Clint and I. I still made a traditional Thanksgiving meal and I have to say we all enjoyed it very much. Christmas soon followed it seemed like days in between. We also had our first visit with santa. Our Christmas plans for Mexico were put to the side when my father ended up in the hospital with an emergent aneurysm in his knee and a blood clot. We had planned on leaving for Mexico on the 20th of December with all of our family, 18 in all. The plan has been in the works for years for mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary. We could not go without them!! Thank goodness for trip insurance, we just have all the paperwork to do now. The good news is that my dad is doing better even though he is back in the hospital as I write this for an infection in his incision. We pray that he will go home tomorrow. We had to go to "plan B", we just didn't know what it was. We made a quick trip to Yuma to visit my family there for a weekend. Aaron and Erica came for the week of Christmas and the girl's came back from Yuma for Christmas and the days following. Sierra is back in Yuma with her father for a few days and all the kid's go back to school on the 5th of January. Aaron will return to Ithaca, NY, Erica will continue to work in Boulder until she hears about interviews for vet school in the spring. Sierra has a visit at the Aveda Institute in Denver on January 21st and Bailey continues to play Basketball and she is keeping her sights on track in the spring. Nati will start indoor soccer in January and Kidus just continues to be too cute for his own good.We continue to feel so fortunate and blessed to have these two little boys in our life. We have had a few scares this fall with health concerns for both boys. Nati had surgery for an undescended testicle and really did well. He now is a "boxer" boy instead of briefs. HA! Poor kid! Kidus had a visit at Children's Hospital in Denver and we did have quite a scare. His Hepatitis has caused his liver enzymes to be elevated for several months now and Dr. Sundaram told us that if they remain elevated we would have to have liver biopsy and possibly start treatment for his Hepatitis. We repeated the labs and they were back to normal. It truly was an eye opener for us. We were that close to treatment? There are no great options for treatment and none of them are very effective and have bad side affects. We may have to tackle this at some time in his young life but we hope that we can put it off as long as possible.
Clint and I continue to be very busy at the clinic. We want to wish all our staff and couragious patients a blessed and hopeful new year.
