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Week ending November 23, 2008: This week we took our holiday photo. I dressed the kids up in their new Christmas outfits and took them to the mall to see Santa and take their picture in front of the holiday decorations. This was the first year that Alex agreed to sit on Santa’s lap instead of insisting on standing next to Santa. Both kids ran right up to Santa and told him about what they wanted for Christmas without being at all shy. As I do every year I bought the picture that the mall folks took. Unfortunately I didn’t like any of the pictures that I took myself, so the next day I asked the kids to dress up in their Christmas clothes again, and this time I took them to a local home-and-garden store that sells lots of Christmas decorations and has a HUGE train garden set up. All told I took 50 pictures between the two days. I think I’m never really happy with the formal portraits that I do, but I got one that was close enough. I won’t post it until after the cards have been delivered, shortly after Thanksgiving, but I did post 3 old xmas card pics above.
Alex’s coughing had me worried this week. For years it seemed that every time he got a cough it just kept getting worse and worse until his throat got so irritated and swollen that it interfered with his breathing and we had to go to the doctor and get a prescription for an oral steroid. We’d tried all sorts of medicines and nothing else seemed to help until this spring when the doctor suggested that we give Alex an acid-reflux drug every time he gets a persistent cough because his stomach acid might be causing further irritation to his throat. Since then we’ve had 3 colds each with a cough, and none of them got bad enough to warrant a trip to the doctor for steroids. Well, this week we got coughing-cold number 4 and I thought our luck had run out because the coughing was starting to get really bad, but after 24 hours on the acid-reflux medicine Alex suddenly started to get better! I’m so glad to not have to watch him suffer through struggling to breathe and to not be giving him steroids.
Alex and Chloe are really enthusiastic about doing craft projects these last few weeks. I think the success they’ve had working on craft projects at school has had a good influence on them. Chloe really likes to draw, color, and paint. Alex likes to cut and glue. He cuts construction paper into tiny shaped pieces and then glues them together mosaic-style to form a new shape (usually a rocket or a jet).
Alex’s coughing had me worried this week. For years it seemed that every time he got a cough it just kept getting worse and worse until his throat got so irritated and swollen that it interfered with his breathing and we had to go to the doctor and get a prescription for an oral steroid. We’d tried all sorts of medicines and nothing else seemed to help until this spring when the doctor suggested that we give Alex an acid-reflux drug every time he gets a persistent cough because his stomach acid might be causing further irritation to his throat. Since then we’ve had 3 colds each with a cough, and none of them got bad enough to warrant a trip to the doctor for steroids. Well, this week we got coughing-cold number 4 and I thought our luck had run out because the coughing was starting to get really bad, but after 24 hours on the acid-reflux medicine Alex suddenly started to get better! I’m so glad to not have to watch him suffer through struggling to breathe and to not be giving him steroids.
Alex and Chloe are really enthusiastic about doing craft projects these last few weeks. I think the success they’ve had working on craft projects at school has had a good influence on them. Chloe really likes to draw, color, and paint. Alex likes to cut and glue. He cuts construction paper into tiny shaped pieces and then glues them together mosaic-style to form a new shape (usually a rocket or a jet).
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