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We had a great Thanksgiving, except that I got the flu on Friday morning! That was not fun. I am sad because I will probably never be able to eat my favorite turkey day foods again. And the left overs in the fridge I am not sure how long it will stay there because I can't even look in the fridge right now.

So far the travels didn't really get off to a good start! Friday I was sick, and we were supposed to leave on Saturday. We did still leave on Saturday, but while Dan was trying to get the electronics in order our iPod froze up our desktop. He was none to thrilled about that. Then while we were getting ready to leave on Saturday he realizes that he can't find his wallet! It looked like a tornado had gone through our house. It stayed that way because we didn't have time to clean it up before we left. The really sad part is that we still haven't found the wallet. So here we are on our trip and no wallet for Dan.

Next my father's cousin had passed away so our travel plans changed to Madison Indiana to see family there. Which in some ways is good because Darren barely handled this trip down here. But sad at the same time as we didn't get to see some family as long as we would have liked.

I have some cute pictures to share of Thanksgiving day. As soon as we have a desktop to put them on i will get them on here for you all to see.

GROSS, eww, ick, and yuck

If you have at all a weak stomach I advise you to stop reading now.

OK I gave you fair warning. Now you get to hear about my child's poop!

He has been having some runny ones lately, he is teething so it is totally normal. I got home from work tonight, and he seemed to be fine. No poop for me! I was kind of glad that Gigi got to clean them all today. I heard they were really nice and smelly. So we played for a while and then it was bath time and our normal bed time routine. Can you guess what happened?!? YES he pooped in the tub! Gross, eww, ick and yuck!

So I grabbed him and rinsed him off in the sink and gave him another small bath, and drained the tub. Darren got into bed, and the clean up began. Thankfully I didn't have many toys in the tub with him tonight, which means less to bleach. So I bleach the toys and scrub the tub with gloves on of course. But I hope this is something that most of you won't have to go through! As a mom I know I have put up with a lot. But this I think is a mom's ultimate fear, cleaning poop out of the bath tub.

GROSS!

Christmas here we come...

I don't know why but for some reason this year I am in the christmas mood very early. I am getting very excited for the amazing food, and the great times with family and friends.

I am not sure what is putting me in the mood so early this year, maybe because I am excited for Darren to open his presents. I know that he was around for Christmas last year but lets be honest with ourselves, he had no idea what was going on. Or maybe I am excited to spend some time with my parents at their amazing new house! Or maybe it is that when my alarm went off the other day I heard two Christmas songs in a row. Which there is this station in point that is playing all Christmas music out there already. How cool is that?!? Today at work too we were kind of slow so we decided to decorate for Christmas. We made 16 paper snow flakes, I felt like I was in kindergarten again.

I might be taking Darren to our Christmas parade here is Stevens Point. If so look for pictures as the parade is tomorrow already!

So Look out Christmas here come the Grabski's!

Are you a scrapbooker?

I got into a discussion with a co-worker today about pictures being in print verses just on a computer. I had said I don't get a lot of pictures printed. I only tend to get pictures printed that I want around the house, and of course those are usually updated once a month or so. Or maybe with a season change. So I have the pictures that I take out of the frames but come to think of it I don't really do anything with those. I guess I am just not a scrapbooker.

I have been thinking about this for the rest of the day. Is Darren going to be mad that I don't have all kinds of pictures printed of his childhood? I have a lot (and I mean A LOT) on our computer, with a external hard drive for back-up as well. I mean everything these days is all digital, plus photo albums just take up so much room.

Then tonight as I am checking the usual blogs for updates, I realize that this is my scrapbook. This is my journal for all of you to see. It may not be in print, but I hope that it will always be here for him to look at when he gets older. He will know how just about every holiday, birthday, and get together goes. And of course there will always be the cute embarrassing things he does. Cute now embarrassing when he's older.

So here's to all you blogger's out there! Who needs a scrapbook when you can blog!

Happy Monday...

Something Funny

And something not

So the other morning we noticed that Darren was awake a lot earlier then he normally is. We wondered what was going on, but didn't want him to make a habit of getting up that early. So we left him until he went back to sleep. Then he woke up around his normal time, when we went to get him up for the day this is what we find...

And we wondered why he woke up early? I can't imagine that was comfortable to sleep like that. I am still pondering how he did it. Needless to say he didn't stay in his Pj's for long that day.

Now for the something not funny...

We worked outside this afternoon, which it was perfect weather for yard work. Darren was having fun eating the dirt, I guess I think eating a little dirt never hurt anyone! So we were playing and working, when I went to do something on the front steps. Little did I know D was following me up the steps, Dan was trimming the evergreens. I thought he was watching Darren and he thought I was watching Darren. He went up a step and tumbled back down to the cement! Yes there was blood and screaming. I feel awful for letting him get hurt! So here are some of the battle wounds. The cement did win this one!

As you can see he has a nice scrap on his nose and a big ole goose egg on his forehead. I think that I have come to terms with he is a boy and will most likely get hurt a lot worse then this.

He was having a blast playing "help mommy fold cloths". When I say fold, he is so helpful to unfold them for me. He will also pull the burp cloths and sheets out of the draws of his crib. It is harmless not like he can hurt himself. It is cute and annoying all at the same time!

Poor kitty, Darren beats the crap out of that cat! She keeps getting in his way too, you think she would learn.

Trick-or-Treat (but mostly treats)

Darren got to go trick-or-treating for the first time this year! He was the cutest, bear or was it a mouse, or maybe a Monkey? Well he was supposed to be a monkey, but none the less he was cute no matter what people thought. The day leading up to trick-or-treating, was a beautiful day! So we took Darren for a wagon ride to a school that is near our house to play for a while. He loves riding in his wagon! He went down the slide, and swung on a swing with mom. It was a good day. When we went pumpkin picking it was our goal to find a pumpkin that was just about as big as Darren. Well it at least weighed just as much. He is also starting to walk. So things around the house are starting to get really crazy.

When we did go trick-or-treating we got to see Uncle Brandon and Aunt Traci! They gave mom and dad, I mean Darren lots of candy. He did have to munch on a gram cracker before we went.

We tried to make the tail visible but it didn't always work.

This was a cool house that we came across while out and about.

Uncle Randy came to visit while he was in town for a conference. So Darren and Uncle Randy had some good male bonding time.