...since I last wrote! Yikes! Welp, here's an update:
11/20: Knightwind dress rehearsal, then out to Waukesha for Megan's 1st birthday party. Fun times with the band and the fam!
11/21: Knightwind concert, then dinner out at Bravo!. They have flights of wine there, so I ordered the white variety. It was tasty, but I had an issue with what they call it. White Flight. Anyone who has any interest in history or sociology would appreciate the irony that's occurring with that menu option being served in Brookfield, the whitest suburb west of hyper-segregated Milwaukee. Ponder that one...
11/25-27: Thanksgiving. Skip got off work at 3, snoozed until we got up, then me and the boys headed down to the Racine Yacht Club for Tom & Jerry's and a visit with Mannings and Galls. We got to meet Justin and Julie's new baby Shelby, which was a nice bonus to the little road trip. After our visit, we came back up to Milwaukee, dropped off Skip and Scotch, then Preston and I headed down to Crystal Lake (since Skip had to work that night/day). We got there just in time for dinner-- in the livingroom! Mom had rearranged the furniture to have the kitchen in the livingroom and vice versa. It actually worked out quite well with a house full of people. On Friday, Mom, Sarah and I, and the kids went to see Andy's new office up in McHenry, then us and the babies went shopping and had lunch with Nancy. Good times, and the stores were not as chaotic as expected. The Harrisons left for Illinois City in the afternoon, and Preston and I stuck around to go have sushi and a leisurely evening with Mom and Dad. We got up and made an obligatory Joseph's run on Saturday morning, then headed back north. The rest of the weekend was nice, just hanging around home with the boys.
12/2 onward: Skip and I had both fallen asleep down in the living room Wednesday night, and when we finally went upstairs (around 3am), we noticed Preston crying and a distinctive smell coming from his crib. Turns out he had just thrown up, like real throw up. My poor baby. I picked him up, only to run him to the toilet where he got sick again. It was so sad having this teeny kid standing next to the toilet throwing up. He managed to get it all out, so we cleaned him up, and all went to sleep. He seemed okay Thursday morning, when in the afternoon he got sick again. We think it was from having milk again. So we held off on that, and he seemed fine for the rest of the day and through Friday.

Since he was better, we felt comfortable sending Preston down to CL with my mom and dad, since Skip had to work while I was going out of town to San Diego for a conference. Skip took me to the airport and I had what felt like a long, drawn out series of flights (even though it was only 2), finally getting to San Diego around 8 their time. I got to my hotel, then walked to the World Market around the corner to buy dinner to cook.
I come to find out Preston had gotten sick again that night, which made us all worry. Mom and Dad were taking good care of him, but we still were worried... Anyways, the rest of my conference was good, and I had some opportunities to get out and enjoy the city, too. I flew home on Thursday morning, and got in around 2. It was good to be home, because I really missed my guys. I'm glad I was home, also, because Preston was starting to spike a fever. We were really worried about him.

We managed to go out and get a Christmas tree on Sunday, and amusingly realized how big it really is as it relaxed and thawed in our living room. I even ran out of lights 3/4 of the way through, so right now it sits in the living room almost finished...
This morning I called the doctor and talked to the nurse, and made a follow up appointment to check Preston's weight on Wednesday. Hopefully he's put some back on, since he's been eating and drinking a lot better the last day or two. We're also making an appointment, at the urging of the doc, with a pediatric gastroenterologist to make sure there's nothing going on inside Preston's little GI tract that needs to be fixed. So stay tuned... Until then, we still have a pretty ornery little baby, but at least he's smiling every once in a while!
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