Boy, this new year did not start off kindly.

While we enjoyed having Nana able to stay with us a few extra days, we were not thrilled to have her get super sick on the 1st! Not sure where we picked up a stomach bug, but it hit her first and then came for me. So much diarrhea and yucky feeling.

Thankfully, this didn’t dampen the excitement of seeing Lindsey and Darrell for a few days.

We were able to see the whole new Zoolumination lanterns at the Nashville Zoo again while they were visiting.

And we had a nice final Christmas of the holidays.

We celebrated the Mister’s birthday on the 7th, complete with cake and presents. That was the first day we started feeling somewhat back to normal.

Despite the sickness making its rounds, Little Man was lucky enough not to get it. He did, however, have some sinus drainage cause a vomiting episode, but thankfully, it was a one-off experience.

We originally had his adenoid removal scheduled for mid-month, but the cold weather finally found us, and we got some snow, shutting down everything for the week.

Despite the bitter cold, we took advantage of the white stuff and tested out the sled.

The dogs enjoyed the snow as well (we think this was Roxie’s first time seeing it).

We rounded out the month with almost back to back staff duty for the Mister and the Lowes workshop.

In other news: Little Man was so talkative and really impressed Alexis at speech the past couple of weeks. It was nice getting positive feedback for a change.

We met with the ACC rep about getting a talker tablet for him for the words he struggles with. It was informative, but I still don’t like the idea of using it. That said, there have been a few times in recent weeks where Little Man is getting frustrated when we can’t understand him. We are going to hold off a little longer to get one; we want to see how he does after adenoid surgery before throwing more at him. I’m not expecting miracles, but if his adenoids were causing some issues speech-wise, we want to give him time before he absolutely has to have the tablet. I don’t want him saddled with it if he doesn’t use/need it.

Adenoidectomy was rescheduled for the 30th. It was a really quick surgery. From the time they took him to anesthesia until we went back to recovery was about 20 minutes. He did great and charmed all the nurses/anesthesiologist.

He took a little bit to wake up (we didn’t go to bed very early and had to be at the surgery center by 0630) and asked for a rainbow popsicle when he started coming to. We’d never given him one before so it was surprising he was so adamant about it. We stopped to pick some up and he got as far as seeing it in person to decide it was too cold and he didn’t want it.

We came home and played with our Lincoln Logs and ate half a cup of jello and half a cup of pudding before deciding he wanted a piece of the banana bread we made the night before.

The Mister is staying home for a couple of days to make sure we’re OK before going back to work, which is extremely helpful. The plan is to keep Little Man home for the rest of the week then start fresh Monday.

We don’t have much planned for February. Weekend workshops, Lunar/Chinese New Year festival (if the weather stays nice), and Little Man’s Valentine party at school is all we have on the books. With all the excitement in January, I’m fine with keeping February low-key.

Until then,