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We had a wonderful time in Kelowna celebrating Christmas with our family. We haven't downloaded all our pictures so there will be more to come. As Keith often reminds me, we really are blessed to have so much in our lives and we can't forget that. Over Christmas we celebrated my Mom and Grandma's Birthdays, many different family dinners, skiing and Christmas of course! An update since my last entry. Jonas was put on antibiotics for 10 days for the pneumonia, well on Dec 23 his body broke out in a rash that we diagnosed as roseola. On Christmas day he was the ugliest cutest boy ever! The poor guy had it from head to toe but it seems to be clearing up quickly which is nice. So then on the 27th he had a temperature of 39.5, add on dehydration and limited eating over the last 2 days, a few phone calls to all our medical people in our life and we ended up at Children's Hospital Emerg where he was diagnosed with a throat infection and fever. So we are hunkering down

Just a little update on our little man.....after a wonderful evening at Children's Hospital emerg....over three hours of waiting....and a chest x-ray.....Jonas has pneumonia! It really sounds worse than what I'd like to believe it is. I took him in only because of his irregular breathing and weird cough and tadaaa! So now we're on a 10 day course of AB. His cough is already gone and is breathing is pretty much normal and although he is more irritable, you'd never know that he is "sick". This too shall pass. I like to think that we have a pretty healthy boy but I truly believe that him being born with Group B Strep and a wet lung have definitely influenced his health in some negative ways. There were times over the summer where I would take him to the Dr. for "lung" type issues and was told it was nothing but finally at the hospital on Monday night I was affirmed of my concerns! Not saying he's had pneumonia his whole life but they did ta

Happy Birthday Mommy! What an exciting time - fun parties, a train ride through Stanley Park, a big shiny tree with presents underneath and wow! Snow! Now it's Christmas! Hooray!!!

n I think everyone can say that December 25th is coming waaayyyy to quickly! The weeks fly by and all of a sudden we're on a countdown til Christmas. The end of November we celebrated Keith's Birthday and held a big Kitimat Christmas bash. We have many friends that live down here who are previous Kitimatians and we try to get together as a whole group a few times a year. December has also held many activities. We had a great friend of ours, Debbie, come for a visit from Kitimat and we only wished she could have stayed longer! Yes Deb...you've made our blog! Since Jonas has come into our lives, we've also tried to create many traditions...yes I like to be a traditionalist....surprise! Well one of our Christmas traditions has included going to the Stanley Park Christmas light show with the Pereira's. I'm not sure if the adults love it more than the kids? We've also celebrated my 30th Birthday this past week...yikes.....I'm admitting it! We'v