Monday, December 12

I hope everyone is getting close to having their shopping done. Christmas is coming fast upon us! I have done a lot of my shopping online since it is easier than toting the kids (which I am shocked every time I say "the kids") to a store. The weather has been nice enough but my patience I would say would not be nice to endure the shopping this year. However I must say I am getting more comfortable being a mom to two!

Isaac is doing well. The doctor last Tuesday said that it would take about 5 days for the caffeine to be out of his system and we would have an idea of how he will do off of it. I had forgotten about the whole ordeal until yesterday when his monitor went off. David thought it was a low battery for the monitor. When I went to look the red light was on for the lungs. Which meant that it sensed a problem with his breathing. It went off about 5 times within a 3 to 5 minute time Span. I even shut it off and turned it back on thinking it was a fluke. Isaac\'s color was really good and he seemed to be breathing shallow but at a steady pace. David was holding him throughout the whole ordeal. I suggested he move him because Isaac was asleep. This seemed to do the trick. There weren\'t any alarms last night or today either so we are believing God to keep progressing him to the next healthy level.

This morning I dressed Arianna in a new shirt. While we were eating breakfast she proceeds to tell me that the new shirt "makes me feel like a new woman"! I thought she should share some of that feeling! I have been spending most of the night in the chair with him. Both of us asleep. What happens is when I wake up to nurse him I am so tired I fall asleep. I cant seemed to wake up enough to go back to ned. A few times i have been awakened by david asking me to go back to bed! I know this is only a season. I have also stopped counting how much sleep i actually am getting. It makes me much less stressed out.

I forgot to tell you about the christmas lights we went to see on Saturday night. We bought some hot chocolate at oberweiss and set off to see the lights. There is a street in south Elgin thar has about half or more of it\'s houses decorated and they even have a live santa our waving at the cars. We drove through enjoying our hot chocolate, each of us with a cup in hand (except for Isaac). We were off at another street when Arianna keeps repeating "I did not wave to Santa". She seemed kind of worried about and I think she felt as if she hurt his feelings by not waving. She eventually says " I did not wave to him because I was holding my hot chocolate". We told her Santa understands the need for hot chocolate. I find it funny that she would even think twice about Santa as we don\'t talk about him and what he represents. She must just know that he is someone who all kids want to impress! So we did drive back by Santa so she could wave at him. She started giggling and said "I did not know where he goed but I see he goed there." I still have to come up with a Christmas activity for this weekend...anyone have an idea? I was over zealous and should have kept the cookie baking for this weekend.