Thanksgiving and Gramps' 60th Birthday

Jill and Tom came in town to celebrate Thanksgiving and Gramps' 60th Birthday. The holidays were a success. Everyone ate too much and had a great time. It was so nice that Patrick could walk this year. Now, if we can just stretch his vocabulary.

This is Morgan posing for me as usual.

It looks as though Patrick was sticking his hand in the chocolate icing. I missed that!

Day Care Called About Patrick Today

Earlier this morning day care called to let us know that Patrick was turning blue and shaking with fever. Joel picked him up and I met him at my mom's house with Patrick. Joel went back to work and Mom and I watched Patrick until his 3:00 appointment.

At today’s appt. the Dr. could not find anything wrong with him. All tests came back normal and surprisingly his white blood cell counts were low for him. We then went to St. Francis North and had a chest x-ray. I do not expect them to find anything. It has become routine for us to do x-rays just to rule out what might be causing the problem. Patrick is sleeping for now and sweet Morgan is spending the night at her Nana and Gramps' house. Bright and early, Nana will swing by our house and change her clothes. Morgan's class will be dressing up as Pilgrims and Indians and will go singing at a nursing home.

We have an appt. in Little Rock for Dec. 9th to have another Doctor look him over. We are looking for a reason why he is always sick.

Wednesday. Chest x-ray results showed that he had a little bit of bronchitis and a red rash all over. G.G. Kept Patrick.

Thursday. G.G. kept Patrick. He had a full body rash all day, no fever, ate a little, was clingy.

Friday. Nana kept Patrick. At 10 a.m. Nana noticed that Patrick had 104 fever and his arm was blue. Nana and Joel took him in to see Dr. Ricks. Ricks referred us to the Children's hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. We arrived at the E.R. around 6 p.m. Patrick's fever had gone down and his rash was looking a little better. The room was ready for us 8 hours later. Joel had to sleep in the ICU waiting room while I kept Patrick in our room.

Saturday. The rash faded more, no fever, and Patrick seemed well. The team of doctors ran tests, x-rays, and cat scans to look for underlying illnesses. Everything came back normal.

Sunday. No signs of a rash and no fever. We were released and told to run a few more tests in Monroe by Tuesday. We ate dinner with Cliff Masters and his family and then headed home.

Monday. Patrick is very happy and playful today. Once again he is feeling great. We hope it will be a long time before he catches something.

Tuesday, November 25th. G.G. will take Patrick for some blood work. She will keep both kids while Joel and I go to Shreveport to get out of town and visit our friends, Ces and Wes.

THE TEAM OF DOCTORS AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AGREED THAT PATRICK IS HEALTHY. HIS BODY HANDLES ILLNESSES DIFFERENT FROM SOME CHILDREN AND THAT IS THAT. WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THE NEWS.

Just Patrick and Mom!

The mom paparazzi appeared again today. Poor Patrick. His fever broke and I got bored. so..... I picked up the camera. Here are a few of my favorite shots. What a trooper! Morgan was at Tinseltown with Hannah enjoying Madagascar 2 so I was able to focus on Patrick. He is now 15.5 months old.

Patrick's Visit to the Doctor.

Patrick had a temp. again today. Joel stayed home with him until 1:00 and then I traded with him. At least this way I did not have to use a sick day. I am now down to three left for the school year. So...... I took Patrick to the doctor at 2:20. The results from last weeks sickness were negative for cat scratch disease. yeah!!!! What did he have? Who knows. He is better now, just a little fever, probably related to all of his teeth coming in.

Morgan's Homework

Morgan sounded so grown up. She came home and told us she has tons of homework to do. She proceeded to take out the work she did in class that she was told to take home and went over it all again. We sure hope this interest in homework continues. I think she watches the older kids at after school doing their homework and she copies them.
Morgan's teacher, Mrs. Lisa, gave her another compliment . Lisa said how much she enjoys observing Morgan being kind to her classmates. Apparently she tries to help the kids get their mats ready for nap. I can just see her playing mommy with all her friends. Morgan telling others what to do??? How to do it... and When to do it.... NO WAY. (ha, ha)
Morgan came home today and told me that she wants Alea from school to borrow her LEAP Letter Factory DVD. When I asked her why she said to help her learn her alphabet. Isn't that sweet. I have it ready to give to Alea tomorrow. We are very proud of how much attention she pays to helping others and doing it in a kind way.

To the Doctor's Office

Last week Patrick had a rash in his diaper. I took him to the doctor and they said it was a rash from the strep virus. They put him on ten days of medicine and it cleared up. On Thursday Patrick started running fever. He stayed with G.G. for the day and then I kept him on Friday. We went back to the doctor on Friday and they did a chest x-ray and blood work. They prescribed ten days of antibiotics because of his fever and swollen lymph node. The doctor said it was swollen about the size of an avocado. Today his fever was gone and the lymph node swelling reduced a little. Tomorrow we should get the results to know if he has cat scratch disease or a staph infection in his lymph node.

Turner Family Photos 2008

We went to Black Bayou to take family photos. A friend of mine, Dawn, agreed to take our photo. She did an outstanding job.

Halloween 2008

We stopped by Aunt Theresa's and took a few photos. Morgan was such a sport.

We also stopped by Grandma Clark's to take a few photos before trick or treating.

More of Halloween 2008

Spiderman and his Super Dad!

Morgan found two of her friends from school last year. Don't they look adorable!

Of course everyone had to run from house to house.

Nana and Gramps hosted this years Halloween festivities. Joel and I loaded up the kids and went to their house. We all got in the golf cart and went to a couple houses while it was still light outside. It was a success and we plan to do this again next year. Same Place, Same Time!