Thankful

Again our internet has not been very user friendly lately...so I am very far behind in the blogosphere. We had a nice Thanksgiving, though I must admit the time seemed to fly by.  I really love the Thanksgiving season of being grateful, but did not meditate on that as much as I would have liked.  One thing I am very thankful for is a good health report for Austin.  The Friday before Thanksgiving he    started a headache.  He has started to get headaches occasionally and unfortunately has probably inherited both his parents' tendency to get them. I started at age 5.  But Saturday he still had the headache and Sunday he woke with a headache, fever and neck ache.  Not very good signs so I took him in to the doctor (and we unfortunately had to miss one of Chris' big events of the year, The Gift charity bazaar and concert). His good response to advil and ability to move his neck made the doctor think it was not something serious.  So we went home.  No fever Monday but still the headache, Tuesday, Wednesday still had a headache.  We went back to see my favorite pediatrician ( I am so thankful also for the doctors in this city).  She thought most likely it was a virus causing the headache, possibly even a mild case of viral meningitis, but wanted to do a CT scan to make sure.  This doctor does not quickly prescribe any medication or treatment unless she really thought it important, so we did.  Austin did great though I got a little choked up seeing him lie still on the CT bed. He lay very still like they told him and it lasted less than 3 minutes.

He got a great report from the CT scan the night before Thanksgiving, so we think it was a virus.  He still says he has a very mild headache ever since then, so I don't really know what to think of that.  I have had a lot of headaches these 10 days too and am wondering if the weather, pollution, etc is also affecting us.  We are not too worried about anything anymore but I am sad that it seems like headaches will definitely be in his future.

 We made a turkey snack...we just happened to have one or two candy corns that Austin received at Halloween, completed by raisin feathers and cheerio eyes glued with peanut butter.

 Some of our Thanksgiving spread...we celebrated Thursday with 4 other families in our neighborhood.  It was a nice time, simple and definitely more restful than last year when I decided to cook the entire meal myself.

 Lucy was dressed in her "snow elf" looking dress...isn't she cute?

 The four families (including ours) have a total of 13 kids.  Five of those kids were added in the last year and a half!  

The goobies (as Chris often refers to the boys) eating their meal.  The boys loved the meat (turkey and homemade ham by Therese) and the bread mostly.  And pumpkin pie.  But neither like mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole or green bean casserole.  Not even Lucy would eat the mashed potatoes...guess that is not a winner in our house.