Our Thanksgiving

This year Thanksgiving marks 8 years ago that we moved into our old house and our first Thanksgiving in our new house.  Exciting stuff!

My family wasn't coming in until Friday so it was just the four of us for Thanksgiving day.  We took a walk in our neighborhood and played at a park in the morning and I guess that was about it.  Kate told us that she was thankful for kittens, dogs, toys, presents and toys.  She is so funny!

Katiebug

 Friday we all went to see the new Muppet movie.  I knew it was a bad idea to take Alex, but both Kate and Alex are on a Mommy kick right now and when Mike tried to take Kate by himself to see the movie, she threw a huge fit.  So here we were all at the movie.  Kate and Mike watched the movie, while I chased Alex around. Fun times!  After nap time we headed out to my sisters to meet up with the family and have dinner.  My Aunt Julie and my cousins James and Emily drove in from East Texas and my parents drove in from South Texas.  Kate was so excited to see James and Emily!!

Emily, Kate and James

Alex joined in

Alex and his Aunt Jes

Saturday was our family Thanksgiving at our house.  Julie and I set the table for 11 and waited for the food!  Brian cooked a very yummy turkey and my Mom and sister made cornbread dressing, dirty rice, rolls, sweet potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole,mashed potatoes and we had pies for dessert.  I took the day off from my diet and eat everything!!  It was all so good!!  We ate at 12 and then laid around until we left my Mom with our sleeping kiddos and went out to do some shopping.  We played some games, watched tv and tried to see the house with the music to lights show.  It was a great Thanksgiving in our new beautiful home!

Alex and his Great Aunt Julie

Emily and Kate watching Home Alone 2

Our Thanksgiving table

Alex with his Aunt and Uncle

Papa Jamey with Alex and me

On a sad note, Kate was coughing ALL day on Saturday and I noticed in the late afternoon that she was wheezing.  She had not complained at all all day until she told me that she "needed some medicine."  She went to bed without much problem and then woke up around 10 screaming! Poor baby. She was scaring me because she was breathing like 60 times a minute, nasal flaring and sternal retactions, along with the cough and wheezing.  The RT in me knew she was having trouble breathing, so I decided to give her a breathing treatment and see if that helped.  She hated the treatment, but it did seem to help.  We watched tv until about 12:30 and then we slept until 3:30 when she woke up and told me she needed medicine again.  Poor baby.  I gave her some and then we slept until 5 and I gave her another breathing treatment.  We headed to the doctor at 8.  She had a breathing treatment and a chest x-ray at the doctor's office due to her saturation only being in the low 90's.  The doctor said that she had double ear infections and the beginning of pneumonia.  She is on steroids, antibiotics and the breathing treatments every 4 hours.  We had a movie day yesterday and we were able to get two doses of the antibiotic in her by bedtime so she was really feeling better by then.  She slept all night and I didn't have the heart to wake her up for the breathing treatments.  I woke up and checked on her, but she wasn't wheezing too bad so I let her sleep until 5.  She is doing much better today and her respiratory rate is FINALLY back to normal!!  She gets sick so fast it scares me!  Thank goodness for good medicine!  Looks like we will be spending most of this week at home!

We hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving!

Alex goes down slide all on his own!!

New holiday tradition!

I think we have started a new holiday tradition! A house in our neighborhood has this really awesome computerized Christmas music to lights show! Here is their website:

https://sites.google.com/site/listentoourlights/

Crazy Alex

Last week Alex & I walked over to a play date in our new hood.  One of the other Mom's was telling me about our neighbor who is famous for his Christmas light show ( for more info: https://sites.google.com/site/listentoourlights/ ) & I took my eyes off Alex for a few seconds & the next thing I know he had climbed up the stairs & was walking around upstairs!!!  Then I turned my back on him again & he started to eat a green crayon!!  He sure does keep me on my toes!

He is learning many new words a day & loves to make all his animal sounds!  When I take him into a store he is so funny pointing at everything & telling me what he sees!

Here he is the other night eating a cookie after eating tacos!  He loves them both as you can see!

Kate is doing great, but sadly lost one of her teachers at school last week.  She was very comfortable with & loved her teacher, Ms L, especially since she was one of her teachers last year. We were so sad to see Ms L go!  But the new teacher seems nice & is great with the kids!  I made turkey cookies for her class on Friday for their fall feast.  It was so cute to see her & all the other kids in her class sit around the table & eat!  I wish I had had my camera!!!

We are excited for Thanksgiving this week. We will actually be solo on Thursday, but my family will be here on Friday and then Saturday we will have our Thanksgiving dinner!  I can't wait!

Mama get your sexy back!!

In September I finished breastfeeding Alex & decided it was time to as Justin Timberlake would say "get my sexy back."  For the first time in 4 years I finally have my body back to myself!!!  I had 4 years of being pregnant, then nursing Kate for a year, then pregnant again & then nursed Alex for a year.  It was time for ME! When I became pregnant with Alex, Mike changed his diet to the Atkins diet & lost about 50 lbs.  So in September I said goodbye to carbs & joined Mike in his eating habits.  I really don't miss carbs, but I still love to have chips & queso on occasion. It's been 2 1/2 months & I have lost about 10 lbs.  I have gone from a size 12 jean to a size 8.  I have lost LOTS of inches!  I really feel the lose of inches more so then the lbs. I started running again in July after having stopped running after running my first 5K in December.  I did the couch to 5K program again & loved running in our new neighborhood!  But I got bored with that, so Mike & I have joined the Round Rock Rec center.  It offers fitness classes with your membership so I have been trying to go to a Zumba class & a cardio class once a week.  I also get up at 5:30 two morning a week to workout at the rec center. I think this is really a life style change for me & I am very close to my goal of weighing 135 lbs!!

Trains and birthday parties

Cedar Park train

Alex loves cake!

our happy little family

Kate and the Mills twins

Saturday we headed out to Cedar Park to ride a train!  Both kids loved it!  Sunday afternoon we headed out to a birthday party.  It was a good weekend.

Alex at 14 months

Alex turned 14 months yesterday.  He is a very busy 14 month old & for sure keeps me on my toes! He loves most of all to eat I think!  He asks for "crackers" all day long & when he wakes up & when it is close to lunch & dinner, he will sign eat to me & head to the gate to go downstairs.  And he is always quick to sign more when he wants more to eat!!  He will also say "cup" when he wants to drink.  Besides crackers, I think fruit is his favorite thing to eat. Poor Alex, I feel like he always has some sort of bruise on his forehead.  A few weeks ago, we were in Academy & he fell out of the shopping cart!! I was worried we needed to go to the Dr office, but he seemed fine ( thanks to google for info on when to go & not to go).  He had a huge bruise on his forehead & when it went away, of course it was replaced with another one!!!  He still loves to climb in & on top of everything! He loves to make animal sounds!  So far he can make the sounds of the following animals: Dog Monkey Dinosaur Snake Bee Cat Bear Lion Tiger Bear Cow Horse Sheep He still loves books & loves to point out the things he knows!  He has really taken a love for Elmo for some reason.  We have a small tickle me Elmo & he just loves it!  He will tickle Elmo & say "tickle, tickle.". He will also sing with Elmo.  Everywhere we go he is on Elmo alert!  He doesn't say Elmo, he says "mel-mo".  It's so cute!! The cutest thing he tries to say is banana!  He sticks his tongue out while he is saying to say it, so funny! He loves to copy Kate lately.  He will pick up his pant leg & say "boo-boo" because Kate always has boo-boos on her legs!  He loves to spin in circles to music & dance just like Kate.  He gets so excited to see her & no one can make Alex laugh like Kate can.  This weekend they were actually playing nice with each other. He still isn't interested in watching TV at all.  On our way to the dino park on Saturday morning, Kate was happy to watch a movie on the 45 minute drive there, but Alex was just talking the whole way!!  I think it is going to be a long trip to St.Louis for Christmas!

Dino Park

So big!!

On Saturday we headed out to check out the Dino Park out by the airport.  Kate really enjoyed it, she loved trying to find the next dinosaur.  The Dino Park was pretty much a nature trail with life sized Dinosaurs right off the trail.  Alex enjoyed "roaring" at all the dinosaurs!  I think this will be a yearly trip to make!

Alex's animal sounds

Kate's speech eval

Kate did great on her speech eval today!! They said she was right on track & a very strong willed little girl!

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Kate & Jax

This friend of mine took this picture of Kate & Jax at the Halloween play date we had! So cute!

Trick R Treating

Kate and Jax have it down!

All four of the kiddos!

my little turtle!

After the playdate the Newberry family stayed for some Frito pie and then we all headed out to trick r treat!  Kate & Jax got the hang of it super fast and before I knew it, Alex was saying trick-r-treat!  He is so cute!  Alex & Kate both did a great job and we stayed out for about an hour.  Many, Many times we had to tell the bigger kids to take only one candy!  Alex loved to carry his pumpkin around and towards the end was picking up candy and putting it in his pumpkin!

It was a great Halloween, but busy!  I was so tired last night!  But it was all worth it!

Halloween play date!

After picking Kate up from school, we had a Halloween playdate here!  We had 17 kids and 11 mommys here with lots of yummy food and cute costumes!  We even had a costume parade and a costume contest judged by Mike.  Super fun!!

Round Rock Halloween Festival

He doesn't stay still for anything, but he did to watch the juddling!

On Halloween I dropped Kate at school and then Alex and I headed to Old Settlers park for Round Rock's Halloween Festival they have every year.  Alex loved walking around and actually stopped and stood still to watch the juddling.  There were lines for all the games, so I just followed Alex around and saw a few friends.