Finally...Tubes!

...yes, we are still behind.  Just prior to Halloween Jude had his adenoids removed and tubes put in his ears.  We hoped this would be the end to the at least 6 months of sickness he has had and the drastic weight loss due to his inability to eat.

He was such a good boy at the hospital.  It's never easy to take your child though something like this, but in the end we are happy to report that his hearing is perfect (prior to the surgery he had moderate hearing loss).

Now 2 months after the surgery, pneumonia, and subsequent ear infections we are realizing that all of this is likely the result of an old enemy...reflux.  Yes, we have determined that his year of sickness started once we took him off reflux meds last year and that all the upper respiratory stuff is actually a result of acid reflux.  We are just happy it's something we can easily handle and hopefully give him some days were he feels great. (And by that I mean days when his Ginny is not here where he feels great...if she is around he feels great regardless of how he is actually doing.)

Halloween

...being a little behind.  So what if it's December and I'm just now blogging about Halloween?  It's been a little crazy around here.  Jude has been sick since the dawn of creation and on the odd day that he seems to feel better Kate gets sick.  However, we are just so blessed to have these 2 tornadoes.

This year Kate wanted to be "Lady Bug Girl," not to be confused with an ordinary ladybug.  She was happy to correct everyone.  For Jude we went with his passion...fishing.  His non-costume turned out so cute.  We enjoyed dressing up for school and for our neighborhood.  Speaking of our neighborhood, they go all out here for Halloween.  Everyone decorates and hundreds of kids are out.  There was also a hayride and haunted house just for the neighborhood kids.  Have we mentioned lately how much we love it here?

I'm fairly certain she looks like she is in a Miss Oklahoma parade here.  The little boy behind her said his favorite part of the first day of school was the girl in the pink dress.  Yes, Kate was in the pink dress.

Jude thinks this little girl is his girlfriend.  If he sees her out at the playground or in her yard he starts yelling her name.  When he first did it we didn't even know he knew her name.  Well he does and he loves her.

California Adventure!

...one last day in California.  We talked about a lot of different options for what to do that last day, but the only thing everyone was excited about was going back to Disneyland.  We had been bummed that Cars Land was not in Magic Kingdom but in the other park--California Adventure.  So, when everyone wanted to go back to Disneyland we knew it was time to take Jude to see Cars Land.  Both kids love the Cars movie, but Jude is also currently obsessed with all things transportation related.  He was on "let me down I want to go everywhere" overload once we got to Cars Land.   It was definitely worth the trip back to Disney.

Even Ginny and Pop were excited about seeing the Disney version of the mother road.

Jude and mommy having fun with a strange tire hat from Luigi's.

Kate gettin' cozy at the cone.

These Cars characters drove around the park, talked, the eyes moved...it was pretty cool.  Jude and Kate were pumped to meet Lightning McQueen.

Silly face meeting Red.

For some reason Kate had been talking about getting to meet Donald at Disney.  He was actually out meeting people this day and the line was super short.  As you can tell, she was so excited she gave Donald a big hug.  Huge difference from the last time we were at a Disney park.

Kate may have been all about Donald, but Jude wasn't going to get any closer than he had to for the picture.

Pop made sure we took his picture with Red.

We had a great day at California Adventure.  Looking forward to our next trip!