Arizona for Christmas

Well, it's been a hectic month like so many Decembers are. I thought I would post here more often but it will hopefully become habit soon. We are currently in Arizona spending Christmas week with Matt's family. We drove on Friday night, left around 5:30 p.m. and arrived around 5:30 a.m. Overall it went well; we stopped in Trinidad to eat (took our time) and Matt was well rested and was able to do it all. Whitney had been running high temps with likely roseola and woke up with a 102.7 temp so I stripped her clothes and gave her Motrin and she went back to sleep. Nathan wasn't super comfortable and woke up around 4 and didn't sleep much more until we got him settled into bed after arriving. I was so uncomfortable as well, but we've all caught up on sleep now and are having a great time.

While it's a lot of work to pack up the family around Christmas time, it's also nice to be away from all of our to-dos at home. On Saturday was Matt's birthday. We slept, walked around Mill, viewed some incredible neighborhood Christmas lights. Yesterday we made sugar cookies and Nathan, me and Grammy went to 3D Polar Express at the IMAX. He didn't like wearing the 3D glasses, not sure why. Nathan loves it here; this is likely the year he will start have true memories. He loves all the toys Grammy has collected and there is a borrowed tricycle that he has been riding like a mad man (Grammy made him a little town out front with chalk). Today, Grammy took Nathan to the dollar store to Christmas shop. I gave him some money and he got to pick out gifts, she said it was super fun and what a great lesson to start teaching him. Him, Grammy and Poppy are going to Flagstaff tonight to ride a real Polar Express and stay the night in a hotel, I'm sure he'll love it. Whitney seems to be over her strange illness and the rash is mostly gone. She loves Grammy and Poppy's house too. She's not sleeping wonderfully in the pack n play but improving each day.

More soon...

Found Fischer

A distant neighbor has had Fischer since the morning he went missing and finally had his chip read and a call to us. He is home safe.

Spent the weekend in Kiowa, always a fun and chaotic time. Nato loves to be with his cousins and Grandma & Grandpa. Whitney has already grown a strong bond with Grandma, it starts so young!!! She is getting pretty goofy with her imitating, fake coughing and head nodding. She really is so smart and catches on to things so quickly.

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving. We went to Aunt Nona and Uncle Mark's house in Larkspur today. We had a great time. Matt had to work but got to stay for dinner and more. Nathan has reached the age where you just don't see him much of the day. He was off with Brody in Uncle Mark's 'garage mahal' watching/playing video games, who know what else they were up to today. Brody came home with us tonight, Nathan is so excited. They're sleeping together in the downstairs guest room right now, hopefully sleeping anyway. They both seemed exhausted.

Whitney loved her first Thanksgiving, loved the food anyway. There is not much she won't eat. She doesn't like baby food meat but that's all I can even think of. She does prefer to feed herself, but I run out of ideas for finger foods and reach for the jars of baby food. She took a great nap at Aunt Nona's. She is so easy!!

Fischer and Radar dug out during the night. Radar came home this morning but we still haven't found Fischer. It's snowing, so I'm a bit worried. (I, not Matt, would love to find these dogs a new home, but don't want to get rid of them this way.) Just checked the Humane Society's website, his picture isn't there. He does have a chip, no calls yet!

Time to get started

Okay, life is crazy. I feel like I need to be super mom, super wife, super pharmacist amongst many other things. Recording my family's history and memories is one of my priorities that is always causing guilt so blogging seems like a great way to feel like I'm accomplishing that. I love to get on the computer at night, usually go to bed way too late, but it's an escape for me. I've been keeping a hand written journal about Nathan and Whitney's stories, but this will be way better and typing is much faster. I'll probably remember more too. So here we go...

First to explain our title. Nathan=Nate=tor'nate'o=nato and... Nato just started calling his sister 'littles' which cracks us up that it may stick. Where did he get that????