November Part 2

Let's see if I can remember the rest of the month! After SF Shar had arranged a surprise get together for Nick's graduation. It was fun to visit with Nathan and Erica and Sophie. I gave JJ a cupcake which he did much better with than his birthday cake. BrookLynn didn't believe she had frosting all over her face so I took a picture to prove it to her.

 Before that weekend we'd felt that JJ was maybe not feeling great but he hadn't been too bad and that Saturday we weren't going to have him out for long, but it was such a nice day and he had such a good time playing outside. By that evening he was really struggling to breathe and fever had spiked. So we ended up at urgent care again. They gave him stuff for his fever and we did a breathing treatment (or maybe they gave him an oral steroid and a breathing treatment). Anyways that was a fun 10 minutes fighting him on the treatment and then they kept us there to monitor him for 2 hours. It is hard to entertain a 1 yr old for 2 hours in a tiny little room.

 The next day he seemed to be doing a lot better. In fact, he was really happy most of the day. Because there'd been no fever or anything we sent him to daycare, but by the time I picked him up Monday evening he had a fever of like 101.2. Having been gone for SF and then having a short week with Thanksgiving it was a really bad time for me to not go to work, but I wanted to be home with him. We ended up having John's mom watch JJ for a few hours and then I came home early. Wednesday my work let us off 4 hours early so we did the same thing.

 Quite the difference from one day jumping around the fridge to having a high fever the next.

I guess I didn't get any pictures of Thanksgiving. So I'll just sum it up. We had Thanksgiving dinner at John's moms. We made deviled eggs which this year we experimented with avocado deviled eggs. They must have been ok because they all got eaten! Besides us Nick's family was there, the Nathan Davis family, Stephanie and Bart, Kim, Paul, Brittany, and Aiyah, and Jerry and Ginger. I think in total we had 21 people. It was a lot of fun, food, and good visiting.

 I got out of the shower one morning to find this on the mirror. It's sort of hard to see, but it says 'I love mom'. John and JJ had been in the bathroom letting Bug breathe some steam and they must have been playing.

 Wow, I'm all jumbled up. This was the day before Thanksgiving. Someone was feeling better climbing all over stuff and inside his wagon.

 Anyways, black Friday we didn't do much. I know that evening we went to dinner with Kim and Paul at Arrogant Butcher. After they went to the Suns game and we came home. One of JJ's favorite things about grandma's house is the golf cart.

 We took Boo shopping for some new jammies to try and keep him warm at nights. He wasn't thrilled with the hat.

 We did get him a new car seat for Nick's car. The cheap one I found on facebook was driving me crazy because I couldn't get the straps to loosen and tighten very easily.

And apparently next I have some random pictures of JJ. These are the best jammies we've found so far. He's pretty cute in his mickey flannel pajama set. The pants are too long and he trips on them alot though. 

I love this picture and how he crosses his feet in his chair. Sometimes I think it's because he was this way in womb. 

 Saturday night Shar and I went to the Phoenix Symphony presents Pixar. I haven't been to the symphony down here and I was really excited for it. We'd bought tickets back the beginning of October so I'd been waiting a while to go.

I loved it!

 This was the program. It's definitely different to hear the music so clear without the talking. I had jotted down some notes about different songs but apparently my phone deleted them. So let's see what I can do from memory.

Finding Nemo - this score really makes me emotional for some reason. I teared up a little and this was probably my overall most favorite piece.

Cars - I think it was Cars that I realized has an awesome brass section. I always love when the horns get a strong section (one reason I love Masquerade in Phantom).

Toy Story 3 - Another movie that makes me cry and this was not an exception. All the pixar music is so iconic and recognizable.

Brave - This had an awesome Scottish sound with the bagpipes and I loved it.

Anyways, overall I really enjoyed it and hope they do it again. I would like to take John as I think even he would enjoy it.

 Last on this cluster is Saturday day we went to Escape the Room. We did the Rec Room which is an 80s themed room. I really expected this room to be easier. Having done 2 other rooms and loving the 80s I thought we'd get through it easily. But when we were 40 minutes in and only 1/3 of the way through I thought there was no way we were getting out. We made some stupid mistakes and we barely got out! We learned that John's sense of urgency is different than everyone else and Nick wanted to electrocute himself. Good times like always!