Prayers for Gigi

Many of you already know that Dave's mom had brain surgery last night. She had a subdural hematoma that had old and new blood on her brain. She just hasn't been feeling well and nothing was improving. She got weaker and weaker and fell a few times this past week. Evidently she hit her head and developed the new hematoma this week. The more chronic bleed could date back all the way to this summer. She had two bore holes drilled into her skull to drain all of the collected blood and it was successful. Her MRI this morning was clear, meaning no new blood was seen. Very good news. She's in ICU at Tulane Hospital and will be through the weekend. Hopefully each day will bring more improvement in her mental status and physical strength. Please lift her up in your prayers. She is so loved by us all, especially her grandsons.

Table for 2

Jack sits at the bar to eat and Theo, up until last night, sat at our table in his booster seat. I finally feel that Theo is trustworthy to sit on a bar stool with no back next to Jack. Here the boys are enjoying their first dinner together. Theo loved sitting next to Jack and Jack of course said "I like eating by myself. I wanted to sit by myself forever". Too bad, so sad, Jack.

Sweet tooth

I'm busy filling treat bags for the boys' Christmas parties next week so Jack and Theo were treated to a candy cane last night. Jack thought Eli would enjoy one too and made me promise to leave one out for him. This is where he found Eli this morning. He was so tickled to see that Eli had enjoyed a candy cane last night too!

Willy Wonka would be jealous

The boys and I picked up a gingerbread house kit tonight. I remember the "olden" days of using graham crackers in the day before kits. Jack was very into decorating the house this year. Theo, meanwhile, was VERY into eating the decorations ;) Our little gingerbread house turned out pretty well, all things considered. Fun little projects like this are neat but also stressful! I give all you teachers out there super props. Jack kept saying how he wanted to eat our gingerbread house and was pretty disappointed when I told him that it was just for decoration. We decided to let Santa eat it when he comes. Lucky him. :)

A boy and his pet

Jack loves playing with Elliott. He's so tender with him and it's so sweet to watch. Dave caught these moments through the screened windows of Jack and Elliott playing outside. Dave said they just chased and ran outside for over an hour. So sweet.

Matchy-Matchy

Here are the boys official Christmas pjs for this year. I couldn't help myself when I saw them in a boutique. I told Dave that I should have gotten a pair for him as well since the boys look so cute ;)

Train at Santa's Village

I kept Jack home from school today to take a trip across the lake to ride the train in Santa's Village. Several friends from my Mom's group met up with us as well as Aunt Dianne and cousin Elise. Dianne watches Elise on Fridays so it was perfect timing for our outing :) Jack and Theo rode the train 5 times each and just loved looking at the miniature train set going by the big train. Elise was great until the train started up, but at least I got these cute pictures before the tears ensued. Thanks for meeting us out Aunt Dianne!