What's Been Up

We had a great Halloween. Betsy was very into it and so were the babies. Betsy was a beautiful witch, and Sadie and Lawson were ladybugs. Thanks so much to Katie and Attie for making the costumes--too cute! We had Marme's vegetable soup at the Carvilles before trick or treating. The Carville house looked amazing! After the trick or treating the girls dug through their goodies and the babies had their first candy bars. They were huge fans of chocolate bars!

I ended up getting sick again. Boo! I missed two days of work. I'm feeling a lot better so hopefully we'll be illness-free for at least a little while. B has been having pain at her surgery site so Attie brought her to Dr. Warren's office. Everything was fine, but we're going back next week. The whole thing just scared me. It might be time to take the hardware out. On Saturday B spiked a high fever, and as her fever climbed to 102.7 I was terrified that it had something to do with her leg. I was assured by Uncle Tommy and Dr. Warren's office that it was OK. She woke up today fine.

On Friday we visited with Marme then went to dinner at Nacho Mama's with Gumbo, Bee, and the Carvilles. B wasn't herself so we had a feeling she'd wake up sick on Saturday. At first we stayed in yesterday, but it was so nice outside so we decided to walk around the neighborhood. Days like yesterday make me really appreciate living uptown. First, we walked to the Poydras Home Art Show then we ran into the Blesseys and the Carvilles. We continued our walk and went to Swamp Fest at the Zoo. Sadie slept the whole time. B had an icee and eventually her fever went down. On the way home we stopped at Bee Sweet and picked up cupcakes then picked up po-boys from Guy's. I loved not having to get in the car all day.

This morning I got a lot of Christmas shopping done. Target's "Christmasland" (as the sisters and I call it) is in full swing, and it really put me in the holiday spirit. We watched the Saints game--another exciting game and win!

Tonight B tried Egg Nog for the first time. She said, "Ooooh, it smells like a milkshake." Then she tasted it and said, "It tastes like Gatorade." Ok... B sang a song to me to the tune of "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah." It went something like this, "I don't want to go potty, I don't want to go po-o-otty, I don't want to go to da pottyyyyyyyyyyyy, because I don't want to go."

Sadie's manners are so impressive. She is a "please" machine. Today she also said her first sentence--kind of gross and she'll love to read about this when she's older. She came up to me and said, "I poo poo."

Here's hoping that Ida stays far away.

Pics later....