Saturday, December 16, 2006

Christmas Tradition






Today was a good day. We went out early in the morning with all the kids to an outlet mall in Sandy. It was supposed to be fun but the kids always go crazy. So Dan could not enjoy his time at his favorite store and we ended up driving all over the place looking for a place to stop and walk but we did not find anything. All the malls were full of people and Dan just hates crowded places. Finally we decided to come home and watch movies, one for the parents and one for the kids (Lady in the Lake and Super Girl).
Later in the evening we went out again, but this time was fun. One of our Christmas traditions is to go drive around and look at the houses decorated with Christmas lights. The kids love doing that, but this year we decided to add something new. We looked for the houses with the best decorations and gave them a little trophy and prize and a note written by Shayna that said: "You won! your lights are the best in your neighborhood! We only had six but it took a long time to give them away. Dan does not like the inflatable stuff, one is OK, but here in Utah everybody has like 3 or more in their front lawn. There was a house with like 6 or 7 of them. Anyway, Shayna and I got out of the car gave them their trophy and prize ( a candy bar). They thought it was really sweet and thanked us for it. Shayna liked it and I think we will keep doing it from now on and look for different neighborhoods. We all had fun and nobody fell asleep except for baby Aaron.
My poor baby is suffering now, his eyes are still a little bit yellow and they did some blood work to see what the levels were on the bil. and it came back high for his age. The doctor said it was a 7 and told me to stop breastfeeding him during the weekend and then take him back for more blood work and see what the results are. Hopefully everything is OK and we can go back to our normal routine. Otherwise more tests will be required. I am really scared since this has not happened before and I am thinking the worst. I have been praying for him and really pushing it with the formula since he does not like the bottle but I found that if I get the playtex stuff he likes it better since the nipples are way softer than the regular ones. He has been eating well but I know he hates it. Still he is happy when he is awake, smiles a lot and we just adore him.
On his 2 month check up he measured 24 inches long and his weight is at 12.6 lbs. He has been growing a lot. so I guess this is my update before Christmas.

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