All ready for Christmas

The Ipock's are all ready for Christmas... well almost. :)

The tree is up, the house is decorated, all presents are bought, and cookies are made. I think that's everything, and now we wait in anticipation.

As we all hoped Luke's surgery went off without a hitch. You can see how absolutely aweful he felt prior to the surgery in this picture. He is so very close to crawling, I would bet it will happen in the next week. His legs are so strong, and he loves his big sister so much, I would expect him to be walking behind her not long after. I swear these pictures are not posed, the child is just always smiling. We were at the Dr today for a re-check (dry as a bone!) and he was fine as long as he was talking with staff. He may be mine, he is a bit of a ham-bone.

Leah is having a great time preparing for Christmas. She met Santa at the mall on Friday with the rest of her class. She had let him know that she would like Dora M&Ms and Dora pants. (She wanted a Dora shirt too, until I reminded her that she already had one, and now that is off the list.) You can tell it really takes a lot to make the child happy. She had her Christmas program on Thursday, and was dressed like a RED stocking. The pretty dress here was under the actual stocking.

I hope this finds you all making time for relaxation this holiday season. The time around the tree with Sefton, late after the kids are in bed, are some of my favorite times of the year. With this Christmas I am sure the season will bring a whole new view of favorites.

We miss and love you all.

All bundled up and ready for tubes. :(

So the winter season is upon the Southerners... it normally hits us the week after Thanksgiving. My leaves come down all in one dump the week before Thanksgiving, I spend Thanksgiving week raking them up, then the next week it's time to start decorating. The temperatures here are a mild 55-65, but when we leave for school in the morning it is usually in the 40's. With all of that being said, Luke is still sick. He has had one ear infection after another since mid October. In seven weeks, we are on our third (two doubles and a single.) I am not sure that the antibiotics ever took, the poor fella is still holding his ear today, and he has been on medicine already for 7 days.

We were referred to our local Ear Nose and Throat Doctor last Thursday, and after one look in his ears she was ready to do surgery. TUBES for us. Now you know Sefton and I are a bit on the relaxed side in regards to medical intervention, and I was a little nervous about this until I myself met with the Dr. She was so sure after she looked, and now after seeing him not getting better on this last round, I too know that it's the right thing to do. Funny though, you'd never even know that he is sick. He laughs and smiles all day, and when he gets hungry he let's us know. When that happens Leah usually runs over to him and starts singing at the top of her lungs, normally row row row your boat, or wheels on the bus, to try and make him stop. Most of the time it works, sometimes however if you call between 5 and 8, you'll catch a bit of that scene.

The big day is tomorrow, so I will let you all know how it goes, but I expect it all to go off with out a hitch. They say the procedure takes just 15 minutes, and don't worry his little lungs are as good as new after our NICU experience.

I've included below a little picture of the little ones all bundled up. Thanks to Nama, they have lots of handmade mittens and hats.

Love to all,

The Ipocks