Today we went to the doctor. The thing I hate about the doctor, is that unless your arm is mysteriously falling off or copious amounts of blood are leaving your body, they usually just tell you what you already know. Or better yet, what the “Google machine” has already told you. Even so, it’s strangely reassuring to hear it again from a trained professional. The appointment was for Keana and basically she’s just got a cold that’s on the better end of bad. Maia has it too, but both girls were in such good spirits today, charming the pediatrician as they do everyone else, that she wasn’t worried about them at all. Sarah and the girls also got the H1N1 vaccine just to be safe, which I would typically be against, probably for no really good reason, but it seemed like the right thing to do today. I’m sort of wondering why I didn’t get it now…hmmmm…oh well.
Anyway, other than being sick we’ve been super busy. I was on a work trip in Philadelphia the week before Thanksgiving, promptly getting this gnarly cold upon returning home. We celebrated Maia’s second birthday just the four us, enjoying some meat on the bone and really good chocolate mousse cake thing. Maia is starting to catch on to the concept of presents, and still loves singing “Happy Birthday”. I wonder how she’s going to adjust to sharing birthday space with Thanksgiving? Growing up I either found it really fun or kind of sad, being quasi-forgotten with all the holiday hubbub.
Everyone else was healthy for our trip down to Long Beach to visit Tia, Olivia, and Ryan, our hosts for Thanksgiving. I really wanted to meet up with my cousins and Auntie on our Japanese side while I was down there, but it was such a quick trip that it just didn’t work out. But we had a good Thanksgiving with Tia’s family, Grandma Jennie, Great Grandma Bev, Aunt Jacquie, and Ryan’s mom Luann. Weather was a little crazy on the way home with some snow on the Grapevine, but we still made it home safe and sound.
It’s great celebrating with family and getting out of town, but it’s really hard that it takes so much energy and might also take a week to get back on track. But even though we’re all a little sick still, I do feel like we’re finally getting back on track, hopefully with enough time to get totally solid before the Christmas whirlwind begins. One thing that is fun about being in Fresno is that with temperatures in the 30s/40s in the morning and evenings, it really does feel like winter here. I’m excited to light up the fire place, decorate the tree (which we still have to get), and sing some carols around the piano. I just have to start practicing my piano chops, or maybe just give a little extra spike to the eggnog.