Thanksgiving

I haven't been good at taking pictures lately and don't have my camera cord right now to connect but since it has been so long, I am going to go ahead and update without photos. We went to Dadeville, MO on the Saturday before Thanksgiving to Shannon's uncle's house (dad's brother) to have Thanksgiving with that side of the family. We hadn't seen most of them since last year at this time so they had never met Chase. It was a good day - Callie drew her great aunts several pictures.
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Callie waited not so patiently, until Chase went down for his morning nap and we put up the tree and Christmas decorations. She was so excited and said that she remembered how fun it was last year. Then when we were getting the tree up and stuff out she said that it wasn't as much fun as she remembered. Once we got going though she was happy :-) And so far Chase hasn't really bothered the tree much at all.
On Thanksgiving we went to my parents with my younger brothers family and my grandparents. It was a nice relaxing day. At bedtime, Shannon and the kids headed home and I stayed so that mom and i could get up at 3:30 to go to Olathe for some Black Friday shopping. We have always gone, not always that early, but it is just a fun time for us. We didn't get anything big. Some good bargains on toys, etc. and a lot of fun. We shopped, and ate, all day.
Saturday we went to Shannon's grandmas (mom's mom) and had Thanksgiving with them. Callie and Daddy went on a "safari hunt" after lunch down to the bridge and around. Callie thought that was great and has wanted to go out again this week. I went to the cemetery to decorate and when I got back Chase had just fallen asleep and got woken up. He was so cranky. We came home and he continued to be very upset. He started running a fever. He ran it all Sunday but we for better or worse we held out to take him to the doctor until Monday. Monday he was very uncomfortable in addition to the fever. Linda watched him while Callie was at preschool and I worked in the AM. The I took him to the doctor - double ear infection. Once we switched to motrin and got the ear drops in him he started feeling better. 10 days of antibiotics to fight with him to take! Linda stayed with him on Tuesday also but by Wednesday he went back to daycare.
We have been watching all kinds of Christmas cartoon specials and counting down the days. We went to the mall to eat after dance on Thursday but Callie wasn't sure about sitting on Santa's lap.........Chase just wanted to tear down all the fencing around him:-)