Christmas Sweater

I commissioned my friend and co-worker, Bonita, to knit a Christmas sweater for Thomas. I've seen her work, which is always beautiful, but she completely exceeded my expectations. In order to make the perfect sweater she combined 2 patterns. Thanks Bonita! Here is a picture of Thomas, with his best friend Kimble, wearing his new sweater. Also, a close-up of just the sweater. Bonita does fabulous work. Check out knitb4sleep.etsy.com for her online store.

Peak Performance

The Clark W. Griswald award goes to Alan. He decided it would be a good idea to get the Christmas lights up before the weather got much worse. The thought of hanging Christmas lights in a snow storm just screams "accident waiting to happen." Our roof has many steep peaks. It's almost hard to believe that this house was roofed just under a year ago, in a blizzard none the less.

Thomas offers support from the bottom rung of the ladder. He would have happily climbed higher if his parents would have let him.

Thomas survived his first night away from mom and dad on Friday. He stayed the night with our good friends Beth and Troy. They are the parents of his best bud, Jack. We went to Holland to watch the South Haven Rams varsity football team play in the regional tournament against Holland Christian. We were ahead at half-time 19-18, but they came back with a vengeance. Sadly, we lost 25-60.

Alan's lit house. I told him that he isn't actually allowed to keep the house lit until after Thanksgiving. We'll see what happens...

Funny, funny boy

So, Thomas is really talking a lot these days. You'll appreciate his most recent observation.

A little background info:
Thomas has a stuffed dog, lovingly called "puppy." He chews/sucks on the nose and makes holes. To which he is always telling me "fix nose" and "hole." So, I cut away the extra fabric and stitch up the nose. Puppy doesn't really have much of a nose anymore, just a flat bulge that was once a nose. It kind of stinks as well, I digress...

Most recently:
This morning when I was getting ready, Thomas noticed the kitty walking away, pointed and said "hole." Luckily, I caught him before he touched kitty's "hole." A few minutes later he looked at me and said, "fix kitty hole." Ahhh, I just couldn't help but laugh. From a speech therapist's view, that is a really nice 3 word utterance! I'll be sure to share this with all my speechies at work. They will appreciate his new developmental milestone.

Family Time

We had family photos done a few weeks ago. Thought you might like to see...

Happy 2nd Birthday Thomas!

Our baby boy turned 2 yesterday. It's hard to believe how fast he is growing up. We celebrated Thomas' 2nd birthday with 22 of our closest friends and family. He had a great time. We have never seen him so wound up. For much of the afternoon, he just ran around the house in circles. Needless to say, he crashed at bedtime. Thomas had a Wiggles themed party. He loves the Wiggles. We had Wiggles cake, balloons and lots of Wiggles toys.

Thomas and his pals- Jack, TJ, Sam and Billy

I don't like to eat cake, nor do I like to have it all over my hands


Flying with Uncle Mike. He's fun and big. I call him "Mi."


Openning a Wiggles present in my favorite, everyday boots

Tools, tools, tools. Thomas got a lot of new tools for his birthday. He LOVES tools. According to Thomas, there is always something to fix at our house.

Better Late Than Never

Thomas humored me and wore his costume briefly for some pictures tonight. I may have bribed him with a sucker. He makes a pretty cute mouse if you ask me. Only 5 more days until our big boy turns 2!

Where do I start?

Well, Thomas did not celebrate Halloween this year. He was sick instead. Thomas woke up on Friday (Halloween) with a fever. So, I stayed home with him. He was rather lethargic and did not want to eat at all. Good indicators that he is really sick. We are not strangers to high fevers (103 degrees) so I gave him Motrin and settled in for the day. The day got interesting after his nap. He woke up crying so I went upstairs to get him. He wanted me to lay down with him and snuggle some more. During this time, he had a cluster of 3 febrile seizures. I called the doctor and they had us come right in. The fever was due to an ear infection. Luckily, febrile seizures are harmless and he only has a 33% chance of having another one. He is feeling better and is slowly getting his appetite back.

So, that is why we didn't celebrate halloween. I am still going to try to get a few pictures of him in his costume this week. Wish me luck!