A Week in Review

We're coming off of a great weekend and moving right into what appears to be a great week. I am in recovery mode both at work and at home now that the board meeting is over.  It was a successful event, I think, and it was also my 15th meeting!  Fall is moving right along and I can't believe Thanksgiving is right around the corner.  Our thankful tree is filling out nicely, and it's pretty cool to hear what the boys come up with each day.

Here are some pics from the week:

 Momo in music class with Miss A., his preschool friends, and drums.  Life doesn't get much better than that for this little boy!

 Hanging out with preschool friends.  I'm told they were howling like wolves in this pic.

 Here they're measuring shadows.  This tree is approximately 15 pre-kers long.  (:

 Jacoby's school served Thanksgiving dinner last week and invited families to join.  So, I went and had lunch with Jacoby.  I got to see what goes down at the peanut-free table.  I did not expect to see so many friends (all of whom can eat peanuts) join him for lunch!  The lunch aid checks all of their lunches to make sure they aren't having pb&j or something like it.  He's going to school with a great bunch of kids...truly warms my heart.

So, last year I basically attended Kingergarten since I was there so much, dealing with all kinds of crazy food projects.  One of the benefits of that was getting to know the kids really well.  These two cutie pies aren't in Jacoby's class this year but they sit with him at lunch a lot.  The one in pink asked me a lot of questions about why Jacoby can't eat peanuts.  By the end of our chat, she had come up with a plan (involving the nurse, the principal, and an ambulance) to take care of Jacoby if he ever were to have a reaction at school.  Awesome.  (:

 Daddy, Jacoby, and Morgan pooled their allowance money and bought a football this weekend.  They've enjoyed learning how to throw and have been doing really well...until Justin bounced the ball off of Jacoby's forehead this afternoon.  That might be the end of that.

 Jacoby went in for his third upper endoscopy this morning.  He's all bundled up in heated blankets, watching Micky Mouse Clubhouse.  He did great and the nurses and doctors were impressed with his calm demeanor.  And the anesthesiologist even told me he was a fine young man.  I couldn't agree more!

Jacoby wanted to take a picture of me in my silly gown and hat before we went into the surgery room.  He's such a great kid, and I'm so proud of how he manages all of this crazy medical stuff.  The GI doc said all of the tissue looks really good, but we'll have to wait on the biopsy results to see how the Eosinophilic Esophagitis is really doing.  We got to go home earlier than expected, which meant we sort of had a free day together as a family.  And that was really nice!