As usual, we've been extra busy this month! On top of the normal birthdays, Christmas parties, and shopping, we spent some time dealing with Grant's medical issues. He had a rash on his cheeks and chin for a few weeks, so I brought him in to the doctor to see if there was anything we could do (I figured it was eczema). The doctor put him on an oral antibiotic in case it was infected and also gave us an ointment to use. A few days after using the ointment, things were looking much worse so we brought him back in. That doctor told us to take him off of the ointment, keep him on the antibiotic, and take him to a dermatologist. A couple days after that, the poor kid broke out in a horrible itchy rash all over his body, which turned out to be an allergic reaction to penicillin. While the penicillin worked its way out of his body, he was pretty miserable since the itching made it really hard to sleep (even with Benadryl). Anyway, we survived that, got into the dermatologist this week, and within a couple days of using a steroid ointment he's looking and feeling much better (it is just a bad case of eczema, by the way)!
The first weekend this month, Mike's mom came for a short visit. She helped us pick out and decorate our tree! She also brought the boys little battery operated trains that they quickly became obsessed with :)
The next weekend, we celebrated Mike's 32nd birthday, and he and I went to his Christmas party for work.
This past weekend, we had our 3rd annual Christmas party with friends and Santa. Grant was a little shy with Santa (he was also very tired), but Nolan loved the whole thing!
Now Mike is off for two whole weeks over Christmas, and we're both looking forward to the break!
