November Happenings

We had a lot of random happenings the end of November. So this will be a random post of a plethora of events, in no particular importance order. 

1. National Preemie Day (yes, they have a day for everything!) it happened to be the same day that Ethan got to go with just mom and dad to the biggest Iowa State Victory at Hilton I have attended- the game vs Michagain. 

Love going to the games with this guy!!

Waving to Cy

The storming of the court!!

Headed back to the car with Frank doing all the work! 

It still get overwhelmed with emotion thinking about scared I was before he was born and while in the hospital when they spoke of all the problems preemies may have developmentally. I cannot find words to describe how blessed we are to have such a healthy preemie!! Love him more and more each day!

2. Cousin Beau's birthday weekend. We stayed at grandma's the night before and had a glimpse of what Christmas will be like with all the boys!

CRAZY!

Grandma giving train rides to Luke and Kelby!

Ethan is a great big brother! 

Tunnel crawls

Birthday Beau at his cowboy party!

Ethan waiting patiently for his pop! Oh and he insisted that his top button on his shirt be buttoned because that is what cowboys do! 

Big hugs for great grandma! It was pretty cute when Luke reached out for her to hold him!!

Happy on grandpas lap!

You steer and I'll push! 

3. The not so fun part of November....Luke's hypospadius surgery. This is something I have dreaded since he was born. It is completely nerve racking having your child be put under anesthesia! Lots of prayers were said that day! 

Before surgery in his hospital Jammies. Had to hold him off from eating, very tough with a chunk! 

Lots of distraction, good for mom, too! 

Everything went smoothly. It took quite awhile for him to wake from anesthesia and they actually just had to wake him because they thought he would have just snoozed the day away. He came back to is sitting up in his crib smiling. Then the flood gates of screaming for about 45 min. came opened. They actually gave him some more morphine and that was freaky. Watching him just stare into space for awhile out of it! 

We went home later in the afternoon and his recovery has been pretty good. Some sleepless nights, but that was expected. All is still going smoothly with the recovery. 

Ethan stayed in Holstein with family for a few days and mom brought him back the night before Thanksgiving. He had a blast at grandma and Frank's, papa and Connie's, and even had a tea party with great grandma! I'm sure he wasn't spoiled at all, haha! 

Needless to say we had a very informal thanksgiving! Luke slept during the feast grandma made. 

Dig in!

Luke was back to wrestling by the end of the week! 

But still had lots of snuggle time with mom. 

He loves holding and grabbing things. He enjoyed the swing again during his recovery, but had to hold on the whole time. 

Blessed yet again with good doctors and good results. 

So much to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving! Ready to be around more family during the Christmas season that is seeming to be coming 90 mph- it's a hard thing- anxious for the time to come to everyone, but I don't want time to go so fast! I feel like my life is just flying by now that I have kids and see how fast they change! Enter big sigh, here. I guess Luke is onto something, I guess I need to hold on and keep up with life!