What November Brings

November has been an interesting month. Our little Caleb has been sick with colds and vomiting since September. He had a chronic cough and was vomiting once a day. I took him to the doctor and he was very concerned. You see Caleb's head circumference is in the 99th percentile for size and a big head and vomiting could be a sign that there is something wrong with his head. Like a tumor or hydrocephalus or something else, anything wrong with the brain is pretty scary. So we went to see a pediatric neurologist and he ordered an MRI of his brain. We were scared of course that there could be something wrong with him but encouraged that he wasn't having any other symptoms besides the vomiting and frequent night waking. He has met all of his major milestones and acts like a perfectly normal kid. So on Monday the 23rd I took him to Saint Luke's for the MRI. He was a really good little boy and everything went pretty well except for starting the IV. It took 3 nurses and 6 tries before they got the IV started. That was a traumatic experience. After that the MRI went smoothly. He had no problems with the sedation, he woke up quickly and within a 15 minutes he was a normal kid again. Two days later we got the results, and it was perfectly normal. There was nothing abnormal seen. So the kid just has a big fat head. And ironically the vomiting has just stopped as sudden as it began. I think that he just has an active gag reflex and the coughing has made him vomit. So anyways we did this really expensive test to tell us that his head is big and he has an active gag reflex. oh well at least now we know that there is nothing wrong with his head.
The rest of the month was good. We had a quiet Thanksgiving with just our family. Bryce didn't have anytime off with his new job. We still had a big Thanksgiving feast and enjoyed our day together.
Some funny things the kids have done this month is one day Caleb discovered the paper shredder. I was doing dishes and could hear Caleb and Kent laughing and running around. I though oh they are playing so nicely together. I went to go check on them and discovered tiny little pieces of paper all over the carpet. They had a wonderful time playing with "snow" in the house.
I have to preface this next story a little bit. Have you ever heard of the kids cartoon Dora and Diego. It is a cartoon with two Hispanic kids and they explore the wild and save animals in trouble. They teach about the animals and use Spanish and English words. Well one day I took the boys grocery shopping. Grant saw a Hispanic boy sitting a a cart we were passing. Grant said excitedly," Look Mom it is Diego." I couldn't help but laugh at that one. Thank goodness he said it quietly. Kids say the funniest things.