Took the kids to see Santa today

I posted that picture in the photo album.

poor kitty/lucky cat/damn cat

I was getting ready for work this morning and Thumbs came into the bathroom and threw up.

poor kitty....

Then I noticed that the vomit was mostly blood

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Okay - I emailed work and told them I was taking the day off and took Thumbs up to the Vet. Three hundred dollars worth of test later told us that he was diabetic again but the doctor thought he may have hyperthyroidism but will know when the rest of the test results get back in tomorrow.

hyperthyroidism ?

Well before I discuss hyperthyroidism lets talk about the reverse - hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is where your thyroid doesn't produce enough hormones or shuts down completely. Your metabolism lowers and you don't digest food as well. Hyperthyroidism is the reverse - the thyroid goes into overdrive, ramping up the metabolism and causing you to lose weight no matter how much you eat.

whatwhatwhatwhatwhat!!!!!

Yes - there is a medical condition where you can eat all you want, digest food normally, and still lose weight.

lucky cat!

Yes that would be true if you can turn it on and off at will. But unfortunately unless its turned off the cat will starve to death. It's Thinner in real life.

But what if it could be controlled....

If it could be controlled I would give it to myself in a heartbeat. Then I would:

1. Take "all you can eat" as a personal challenge.
2. Make owners of buffets cringe at the site of me.
3. Have 1000+ calories of desert at every meal.
4. then the meal
5. then more desert.
6. You get the picture.

I know it cannot be controlled, I know it can be fatal, but I cannot help but to have a small amount of envy for Thumbs right now.

damn cat.

:)

Thanksgiving down - Xmas to go

Well Chris' cough turned out to bronchitis so we canceled the large Thanksgiving and only had Carol and Christopher over. After Thanksgiving dinner Carol stayed with Chris and I took the kids over to see my parents and Bobby and Darlene.

Friday after Thanksgiving we tried to have a family photo at WalMart but that failed. Because they could not move their camera they have set templates on where people should be for a given number of people. For seven people they have all the tallest people stand while the shorter ones stand/sit in front. For us that did not work because Dad, the tallest at 6'4" had to sit and they were not able to make the picture work even though they tried for forty minutes! I have to say the children was awesome! They sit still through the whole forty minutes! I was very proud of them.

Well we came back Friday night because it was going to rain Saturday. Nate's fever came back and he had to miss school Monday-Wednesday so he could get enough rest. Lexi's sinus infection came back and we got some more antibiotics. At least these she is willing to tolerate.

On a positive note we just finished watching "Meet the Robinsons" and it was great! If you get a chance to watch it I would definitely recommend it.

I uploaded Lexi's fall school pictures on our photo album. Enjoy!

:)

Getting ready for Thanksgiving while sick

For the last six weeks at least one of us have been sick. I thought we had all gotten over it but for the last two weeks Chris has been congested and had a headache. She really did not want to do anything about it before because she had a cold at the time and thought that was it. But Friday she told me she had called the doctor and has an appointment for Monday. She talked with a friend from where she used to work at and the friend told her that three people had the exact same symptoms and went to the doctor and were all diagnosed with pneumonia.

If it is pneumonia we are going to cancel Thanksgiving but for now we are still planning like we are having Thanksgiving - we just went to Sams and got all the plastic plates, plasticware and a 20 lb. turkey.

Friday was Nate's Thanksgiving party. I took off of work and joined him. They had a great time. I posted the pictures on our photo album.

I took Nate and Lexi to McDonald's today and they had a great time.

That's it for now.

:)

The kids had a blast last week

Well last week was Nate's last football game, Tuesday was the football party where he got a nice trophy and dog tag. Wednesday I took him to out to eat with Grandmoo and Grandma Katie and Uncle Christopher (Chris and Lexi were too sick to go). Friday and Saturday Nate had birthday parties to go to and Sunday Uncle Bobby and Aunt Darlene dropped by. Needless to say Nate was pretty bored today!

:)

But it only took 30 minutes to cut them down....

Saturday I went out and trimmed the limbs on the trees in the front and back yard. It only took 30 minutes to cut down the limbs but to but up the limbs and bundle them up in the the city approved size bundles (no more than 40 lbs) took four hours! And even now my arms hurt! But at least next year when I mow I won't have to duck under alot of branches.

Today we went out and painted our pumpkins. I posted pictures of them on our photo album.

Nate and Lexi are doing better. We had to skip a football game yesterday because Nate was running a fever. I think both should be able to go to school next week. Tomorrow is Lexi's last day of antibiotics and we are all ready for it! Lexi cries when we get them out and we hate having to fight her to give it to her.