random sampling from xmas

Christmas Eve with the Shewmake's

Christmas morning at home

old school wooden toys from Aunt Noel are still a hit with a 21 month old

you have to stick your tongue out for complete concentration in this game

shooting the hoop with the new basketball goal from Aunt Lynn

trying out the new tricycle from Grandmamma (maw-maw)

even with all of the presents, he really just enjoyed a good game of "chase"

Here are a couple of shots from Christmas. Ask Turner what Santa says and he'll give you a deep "Ho, ho, ho". (Thanks to David Gaston at the Grill) I've been proud of him the last few days. He really has divided his time up amongst ALL of his presents. I need to get started on taking Christmas decorations down so that I can rearrange a few more things in the house to make room for everything. But considering I've spent Turner's entire nap time just trying to get these photos to load on this site, I doubt I get that accomplished anytime soon!

Visiting Santa at the D'Andreas

december update

I took Turner back to the doctor again Thursday for another round of antibiotics. We just can't keep a sinus infection away for more than a week. I have some pics to put up as soon as Arthur gets them edited for me. We took Santa pics at Downtown Stroll but ours of Turner is him crying and holding out his arms reaching for me. So, we tried again last night with Santa visiting at the D'Andrea's house. He was much more receptive of Santa this time, until you tried to make him sit on his lap. But as long as Santa was walking around showing him the lights, he was fine. He was willing to give him high fives, and finally he went and gave him a kiss on the cheek, but we never were able to get a picture of him smiling on Santa's lap.
We went yesterday morning for brunch in Mobile with some of Arthur's mom's cousins, and then we went to visit a couple of family friends. Everyone complimented Turner on how well behaved he was the entire time.
And in the potty-training dept., we might be making some progress, but I hate to speak too soon. Turner is keeping those pull-ups and big boy underwear pretty dry all the time now, though!!! Yea! Now, if he would just tell me when he needs to go instead of us just carting him off to the potty at certain time intervals, we'd be there.
I think that's the update for now. Christmas Eve will be with my folks, Christmas morn at our house, and Christmas day with Arthur's fam. I can't even begin to name off all the "stuff" T's getting for Christmas this year. And I think he will grasp the concept pretty well this year that he's getting loads of presents. I'll describe the entire experience next week.......

dr visit #2 for this cold season

Turner has congestion and a cough that had progressively been getting worse over our Thanksgiving break. I have a sore throat that started developing about 5 days ago, so I decided we had both better go to the doctor today. And the diagnosis/medicine is the same. Ear infections, sinus infections--it's all the usual during these cold "winter" months. I'm just glad my strep test came back negative. Surprisingly enough, my ears looked worse than Mister T's. So, we're cleared to go back to work/school tomorrow; we'll just have to suffer our way through the next few days until the antibiotics do their jobs. Hopefully we won't be back in the office again next month!

A Funny

We usually go out to eat in Tville after church on Sundays because Turner would be fast asleep by the time we got to GH if we tried to wait. And it never fails that Turner will fall asleep after lunch on the way home to take his afternoon nap. So, today when we heading back to the car after our meal, I said, "Well, now it's time to go night-night." The child laid down on the pavement in the parking lot outside our car and said "night night". Granted, normally when I say that phrase it does mean for him to lay down and go to sleep...I just didn't expect him to take me so literally that he thought he had to sleep on the road! So, I learned my lesson today of what not to say when! :)

My Photo Book Nov 20 2010

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the stomach virus yet again

Turner's teacher was out Friday. Come to find out, she had the stomach virus after sending one of Turner's classmates home with it Thursday. Lo and behold, guess who gets it Friday night? ME! Arthur was gone Friday night at the Tville game and all day/night Sat at the AU game, so I was left to take care of myself and Turner for the weekend. Luckily, my parents called Sat afternoon and helped out with Turner that evening. I just hope we didn't give it to them--because Sunday night Turner had two poops and threw up once in a 2 hour time period. I got on the phone to find a sub--with no luck, so I don't know what my classes did today. But Turner and I stayed home today so maybe we won't infect anyone else.

Friday at the pep rally, the teachers did a skit/dance/cheer routine?? that was pretty hilarious if I say so myself. Arthur showed up and got some pics of us that maybe I'll put on here. Unfortunately, it didn't help us make to state.