Forever...

Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged. I will give you the last three months in a nutshell...

November....Will got hand-foot-mouth disease right before Thanksgiving...it started out on his rearend as what looked like chicken pox. It spread all down his legs to his feet, on his elbows, arms, wrists and hands. I then looked in his mouth and he had huge blisters all over his mouth. He was miserable....the doctor told us to give him anything dairy and cold. We tried everything from yogurt to ice cream and he wouldn't eat because he was so miserable. Ady never did get it, thank goodness. They both ended up in the doctor's office with a three week cold....each were on antibiotics and finally got over them.

December....we hosted Christmas at our house...Brad's family this year. His parents came back from AZ...and we all have a great time. Will had his first year with Santa coming to our house. He helped me bake sugar cookies (he more like ate the dough and frosting, but it was a start!). We put cookies and milk out for Santa and left him a note (Will "colored" it for him!). The next morning he came downstairs to a new firetruck...a huge pedal powered firetruck! Ady got a Lotty Ladybird rocker/walker. They had a wonderful Christmas. We then hosted a NYE party at our house and had about 20 people here. It was really nice to stay in and enjoy the company of our friends and neighbors.

January.....we were lucky to ge the chance to have April and Aleia come and stay with us after Christmas through Will's birthday. We had a sledding birthday party with about 12 kids under the age of 4. It was a blast. I made homemade hot chocolate with marshmellow skewers and s'mores for dessert (we skipped the birthday cake this year and just put two candles in a s'mores bar). I am still reeling that Will is two....it seems like yesterday that he was born....I miss him as a baby! He is such a little man now....sniff, sniff! At the end of January, we had an unexpected death in our family. Brad's grandmother, Mary Jean Portwood passed away of a brain anurism. She was an amazing woman and I am sad that she is gone. I admired her greatly and she was my surrogate grandmother (I lost mine at a young age). She had so many wonderful gifts and I learned so much from her in the short time that I knew her. I am so sad that Ady and Will never got the chance to really know her. I do think a little bit of her spirit passed through both of my children the night she died. Neither one of them wake up in the night anymore and they were both up crying right at the time she passed away. We will have many great stories of her and Bob's life to share with our children. They will be missed greatly.