Thanksgiving

Griffin is beginning to feel better, thankfully. This is one of my most favorite pictures I have in my collection. It was when Griffin sleeping on his Daddy when he was sick. Kerry is the only one that he would fall asleep on during this time.

The Tredennick family hopes that everyone had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure had so many things to be thankful for and we definitely are very blessed.

Our day was full but it usually is. We are grateful that we could make it to all that we could sometimes with little ones we can't get to all that we want to be but we do our best. Our day started out with our family watching the Macy's parade on TV. It is one of my favorite past times and love that I can share it with my kids. I started our Thanksgiving dinner at 8:30 am with the turkey in the oven. I also cooked the stuffing. Some of our family members came to our home this year to help celebrate Thanksgiving. They shared several wondering Thanksgiving side dishs with us. We enjoyed each other's company and had a great meal. It was really nice. The boys really didn't get to enjoy the great food that much though because they have become picky eaters for some reason. I will have to say I had two helpings of everything though so I made up for their lack of eating. After naps, we headed over to Kerry's mom's side for another amazing Thanksgiving dinner. It is alway fun to watch the boys play which they love to do especially with someone else's toys. The conversation always are very fun and interesting as well. I haven't added photos in a couple of blogs so I thought I would share a couple.

Stomatitis

Griffin has Stomatitis diagnosed by Dr. Brewer. It is a common infection in kids usually between ages 1 and 3 years old. Kids that have this will run a high fever, drool quite a bit, and very uncomfortable. ALL symptoms of Griffin. There are little ulcers on the insides of his mouth, tongue, and throat which cause him not to want to eat or drink. It is untreatable beyond making Griffin comfortable with Ibuprofen and Tylenol. It can last up to a week or more. I am super tired so hearing this brought tears to my eyes. The doctor might have thought that I was a little nuts for crying but sometimes you just feel so badly. He also has an ear infection as well. I feel sorry for him because all he does is cry all day long and doesn't sleep well. I am praying he gets over this quickly.

One of those moments....

Griffin is sick today. He has had a temp. from Saturday to today. I put him down for a nap but he woke up a half hour after he went down and I just knew that he needed more sleep than that. So I held him in our bed on my chest, something I usually don't do ever, and we both took a nap for a short while. It was so nice to cuddle with him. When he woke up he was looking around to figure out where he was at and then he came about 2 inches from my face and smiled largely!!! AHHHH!!!! Even though I may get sick now it was worth it.

Night Terrors

Yelling, kicking, and crying have all been happening while sleeping at our home with Gavin. I have heard that little kids can have night terrors but I never knew how bad they could be. It is horrible to wake up to this sound in the middle of the night. Kerry and I have been waking Gavin up to get him out of his bad dream, not sure if that is right or not, but he seems to come out of it. Then it will happen again a little later in the night. All of this past week he has had this problem. Any suggestions?

One of my embarrassing moments as a mother....

On Tuesday evenings, I have been trying to take the boys with me to the library and grocery store. I am hoping that it is a weekly occurrence but we will see how it pans out. Gavin, Griffin, and I pick out seven books for the week to read at night and then we get our groceries. So far the two weeks that I have done it, it has gone well. Although I had a very embarrassing moment at the end of our grocery trip yesterday evening. I was checking out all of the groceries and Gavin loves to hand the lady the stuff so that she can scan it. He usually doesn't say anything and just keeps handing her items. He was being really good and all of the sudden out of the blue Gavin yells, "Mommy, I farted!" I didn't hear him quite right but I thought that was what he said so I ignored the comment thinking he might just let it go. Wrong thing to do as a mother. So he yells it again to get my attention. I said "Gavin we don't say things like that." And he says, "I farted. I did!" and then again. It was rather embarrassing so after having several people in ear shot laughing at us, we decided to leave the store asap!! Gavin and I had a little talk in the van about what happened and I am just hoping that it doesn't happen again. This is one of my most embarrassing moments of being a mother.

BRRR.....It is cold out.

It has been cold the last couple of weeks and more recently cold cold the last couple of days so we have had to put on warm clothings, big coats, and stocking hats which Gavin and Griffin are not fond of. They do tolerate it though.

This last weekend, we had to rake leaves because they were just out of control so I bundled up the boys and out we went. Gavin hated his mittens and Griffin's kept falling off but the enjoy being outside for a little while. The funniest part for me was watching them run in the leaves. I used to love that when I was a kid but I didn't rake too much because living in the country it didn't do much good anyways. It was good fresh air for us all and made for good naps.

Up.... and down.....

While I was in Chicago Griffin finally got the hang of going down the stairs. Gavin and I had been trying to teach him for a couple of days and then he finally got it. Grandma Kathy was a big help to the cause. Now Griffin loves to go up and down, up and down, up and down.... Why buy toys when you have stairs. I took this video a couple of days ago in the morning. It is a little dark but I think it is rather fun!!

GIRLS WEEKEND OUT!

This past weekend, I had a girls weekend out with three of my other cousins. We had all decided that we needed to get together for a weekend and have time together to shop and catch up. Our main goal was to get some of our Christmas shopping for the boys done. We all have boys around the same age which is awesome. Kelly, Stephanie, and I all started at Toy'R'Us because we thought that was the best place to begin. It was! Then we headed to Oakbrook Mall which has so many stores you can't get to them all in one day. There was three levels and it was amazing. We went around to all of the kids stores first and then moved on. I wanted to see it all. You may think it was a little early but the entire mall was dressed in a Christmas theme and Santa Clause was even there. This particular mall's theme this year was "The Polar Express". The mall people (I don't have a clue what you call them) did a fantastic job. I did a lot of watching as well and I came to the conclusion that I am so out of style. Many of the women wear this shoes called UGAs, which I don't particular care for, but they are like fuzzy boats you wear outside you jeans. As a matter of fact, they wear all of the boots outside of the jeans. I thought that was a fashion, No no. I still wear brown shoes with white socks. I can't help it, I am cold all of the time so I would rather look dumb and be warm then look hip and freeze. After a long day of shopping and a little bit of watching, we freshened up and went out for dinner to catch up on girl talk. I know that was my favorite part. We all got to talking and laughing, we lost track of time. It just reminded me how thankful I am to have close family and friends to spend time with. That night, we all stayed at Kimmy's apartment. Kelly and I did alittle more shopping the next day at Marshalls and IKEA, both places I have never been. Then it was Home again. Gavin told me he missed me and Griffin wanted me to pick him up right away. It is really nice to be missed.

GO BEARS!!

I have discovered I love to dress the boys alike. Here they are in the Bears outfit ready for the Sunday game. Here's to all the Bear's fans. GO BEARS!!!

Bumps, Scraps, and Bruises

This week has been a week of bumps and bruises. On Saturday, I was playing leap frog with Gavin and he fell. He has a bump and bruise on this forehead. On Sunday, Griffin was playing outside when he fell from the concrete to the brick part of our fire pit (no fire was going and no he wasn't near the pit) and scrapped up his forehead. Then on Sunday night, Griffin was playing with a shaving cream bottle after they were both in the bath and accidentally dropped it near Gavin's eye. Now there is a bruise. Yes, there is more. On Wednesday, Gavin was running into the playroom at the sitter's house and he fell into all of the Legos and has a scrap on his cheek. Yesterday while Griffin was getting his coat on he fell through Grandma's legs and hit his head on the carpet which sounded horrible. Lastly, while cooking supper last night I allowed Griffin to play with the lazy suzan so he pulled out a can of soup and dropped on his foot. My poor little boys but I have heard with having boys you have to expect this. Hopefully next week will be without bumps, scraps, and bruises.

Trick or Treat!!!

The Tredennick family went all around to go trick or treating this year. Luckily we did because there were not that many people out this year. So our kids got some really good candy, they had to learn to share with their parents though. Gavin went as a farmer, imagine that, and Griffin was a turtle. They were both adorable, I say that all of the time but they really were. We tried to get to everyone but sometimes the kids just get too tired. Here are some pictures to share if we didn't get a chance to stop by your house.

We hope you all had a great Halloween!