Pre-christmas David's life roundup

Yes, it’s been a while.  In this instance, no news is pretty much good news.  We’ve just been having fun, living life, watching our little boy grow up, and trying not to miss anything in the process.  When I posted last, we had just gotten back from Pensacola.  We haven’t had any medical events since then (those always trigger a blog post), but I realized the other day that we HAVE had Halloween and Thanksgiving.  I will almost certainly have to write something for post-Christmas, and I would hate to soil that one with thanksgiving and Halloween stuff.  

If you’ve been keeping up with Christy’s continual picture and video posting on Picasa (see the links on the right side of this page), you will have noticed that my mother-in-law once again outdid herself with David dress-up.  Last year he was a banana.  The awesomest banana ever, to be sure.  This year, though, we decided to go with some moderately subtle humor.  David was the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz .  Some people (cough-mom-cough) didn’t think it was funny, but those people don’t have a very good sense of humor.  I tried teaching him to sing If I only had a heart, but he was unable to develop the requisite linguistic skills in an appropriate time frame.  Regardless, he quite enjoyed the costume.  It was quite shiny, and I think that David might be part magpie.  He was quite impressed with himself and his sparkly shoes.

Other than an awesome costume, Halloween was uneventful.  We generally avoid trick-or-treaters by going out to dinner (The Chimes, this year), then we went to my mom’s house so that David could show off his sparkly-ness.  He had some cuteness competition from his younger cousin who dressed up as a burrito (the cousin’s dad is a Mexican named Beau, so it’s funny, but not as funny as a heart defect kid dressed up as the Tin Man, in my professional opinion).  But in the end, David was still the cutest Halloween kid ever.  Hopefully we can dream up something next year to top this year, but it’s going to be tough.

A few weeks later was Thanksgiving.  It was, well, Thanksgiving.  I’ve never been a big Thanksgiving fan - turkey is about the most boring food ever - so writing about this feels a lot like I’m just writing about any other dinner that we eat.  There was food.  It was good.  My wife and mother-in-law are wonderful cooks.  There’s really not much else to say.  David played with his grandparents and great-grandparents, but again, this is nothing out of the ordinary.  There was no adorable costume (although his onesie did say “mommy’s little turkey”), there were no funny David stories.  So nothing really to see here, but I figured I should mention it anyway since other people might want to know for certain that nothing interesting happened.

So now we’re 6 days away from David’s second Christmas.  We’re also about 2 weeks past the first anniversary of the Glenn surgery, so that’s something to be excited about.  Christy and I were reminiscing this weekend about being in the hospital at this time last year.  We only managed to make it back to BR a couple days before Christmas of 2010, so it’s been nice this year to sorta experience the whole season.  In a sense, it’s David’s first Christmas season even though he’s already technically been through one.  He is learning to not mess with the presents under the tree, and getting excited every morning when I ask him if he’s ready to turn on the tree lights.  He happens to be a little under the weather right now, but on the mend - just seems to be normal baby winter upper respiratory stuff.  I’m quite sure he’ll be feeling better in time to have a wonderful Christmas day.