Deer season, Christmas, New Years, and more!

Again I'm running behind in my posting!!  Babies holidays and work are all running together now and I'm not sure if I'm up or down some days!

But this past November, I returend to Manitoulin Island (HOME) for white tail deer season.  My family and friends were amazed at how well his had healed from his surgery, being only about 6 weeks post-op at that time.  His hair had started to really grow and started to cover the suture line so you couldn't see it.  They did wonderfully, and Lucas was standing at that time, but wouldn't take a step.

The next week, however, when we got home he started to walk!  He was standing next to my chair and let go and took about 3 steps towards the centre of the room.  After that it was about a week befor he built up enough courage to walk out of the living room and venture to his bedroom on his feet. 

Soon after that we put up our christmas tree and with the 2 of them, it was deffinately work to keep them away from it!!  The presents were a different story!  As we placed the wrapped presents under the tree thier curiosity flourished and the picking at the corners of the paper began!!  By Christmas morning when we pulled the gifts out from under the tree, the corners and edges of the boxes had little tears and pick marks on them!!  Lucas didn't seem as interested in pulling the paper off of his presents as Nicholas was, because as soon as he could see what it was he was trying to play with it!  Because I was working Night shift we opened our presents as soon as I got home from work and Chris and the boys went to his dads for the afternoon.  I then joined them about 330pm for supper and some more presents.

We did Christmas with my sister and her family and my dad on New Years day, and spent New Years eve at a fund raising dance for the town of Mindemoya, for new play ground equipment and such.  It was fun to be had by all!  As I have said to a bunch on Facebook, I'm glad 2011 is over and am looking forward to a great 2012, we had too much heart ach and a year of I don't knows with Lucas' diagnosis of Metopic Craniosynostosis.  Then his surgery and my mom's death with-in a week of each other!!  Not to count the death of some good family friends!!  

So to one and all, Happy New Year and all the best in 2012!!