Quick Recap

It's been awhile, but here's the quick recap:

Christmas Eve:  Hilary had physical therapy that morning.  K had to work.  Hilary was also scheduled to play violin for Hospice that afternoon.  I dropped her off with her Christmas carols.  I picked up some last minute gifts with Ada, Owen, Clara and Lilah.  Lilah then stayed at grandma's for about an hour while I did last minute things at home (namely ice the homemade carrot cake and pick up ham subs for them).  I picked up grandma and Lilah.  Kevin took the boys and Ada and met us at mom's new nursing.  Hilary played her violin, Lilah played Hilary's violin. We ate yummy food and snacks and gave presents.  We gave mom a digital video camera.  She's loving it.  She looked great and had fun. It was cut off early because she had to go but we spent some time before then.

Christmas Day: We tried to make plans for Chinese food. The place didn't open until dinner.  So we met our friends for lunch at another place. We dropped the boys off to see a movie and spent the afternoon socializing at home with our friends.  I had been nursing a really nasty headache all day, so despite being at a buffet I ate white rice, cheese sticks and bananas.  Drugs, coffee, nothing worked.  That night we did chili bingo and had fun.  Still had nasty headache. Kevin wanted to go to the hospital.  Finally a bath and a third round of drugs wiped it out.

Benjamin's Wisdom Teeth:  He was so worried.  The day before he insisted that he wasn't supposed to eat for 24 HOURS before surgery.  I called and left a msg for Kim.  Thankfully I got him to eat as Kim's phone was messed up. He was on edge all weekend and the morning of very quiet. Kim, being a great friend, let me stay until he was asleep.  B did really well for his IV.  Partly it's Kim's mad IV skills and partly B's great veins (he didn't get that from me).  I sat about 6 feet away through a wall working online. I'm not as good at analyzing what each noise is anymore.  He woke up slowly, because he's a teen boy.  And when we did get him talking, he started drunk dialing.  First he wanted to call daddy to say he loved him and wanted to see him.  Not too weird.  We promised a drive-by dad's work for a quick hug and kiss.  Then he called his siblings and said he loved each of them (by name) - even HILARY.  He's been great about his meds and threw up a bunch once we got home.  Thankfully he's mostly pain free expect when he tries to open his mouth.  I know that's going to be an issue. I'm working on him about it, but we'll see.

Owen & Clara had check ups.  They are both 43.5 inches tall (70th percentile) and about 40 lbs.  Great health and doing a great job on everything.  Doc suggested I work on strangers a bit more.

I'm sure there is more I just can't remember it all!  :-)

P.S. I'll try to get some pics of B looking like a chipmunk!