Christmas Time

Our Christmas was very nice. PawPaw and GiGi came to visit with us. PawPaw stayed with us. Cullen enjoyed every minute of it, the lights, Santa, and presents. He started getting sick on Christmas Eve, and Brent picked it up on Christmas Day.

Brent has been in the bed since Tuesday afternoon with the flu. Cullen's didn't last that long. We have been taking care of Dr. Daddy this week. Maybe Dr. Feelgood from St. Louis can pay us a visit...

Funny:
I started taking down the decorations, and Cullen asked me why? I explained to him that Christmas is over, and we put all the things away until next year. Santa will come again then, also.

Cullen asked: Do you put my presents away, too?

Christmas Eve

Santa just left our house. Cullen was sure he would stop here first, so Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Illinois, New Mexico, etc. get to sleep quick. Santa is on his way!

By the way, if it were up to Cullen everyone would have gotten a dinosaur for Christmas this year.

Merry Christmas!

THE NEW JOB

CONGRATULATIONS!

Brent is now a professor in the Health and Kinesiology Department at Sam Houston State University! He went in and showed them what he had to offer, and they loved him. Brent is tenure track and ready to start after Christmas.

He has waitied a long time for this, and it is here. Cullen and I are very proud of all of his hard work!

We Love You ,

Daddy a.k.a. Brent

Songs of the Season

Cullen loves Christmas songs. Deck the Halls seems to be his favorite. He calls it the La La Song, and we listen to it over and over in the truck. Of course, he is just learning all of these songs and has his own version to quite a few of them. Here are some of them:

Up On A Housetop
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn’t no! Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn’t no! Up on the housetop lank, lank, lank Down to the chimney with Old Saint Gank

Joy To The World
Jolly to the world. The Lord has come. Let her resee the hing.

Frosty the Snowman
Frosty the Snowman has a jolly happy hole with a corn cob hype and a belly button nose and two mys made out of hole.

He does good with Rudolph and Jingle Bells. If any new versions come up, I'll be sure to let everyone know. After reading cullen's version, the priginals may not come to you. Click this for the originals.

This Morning

Cullen woke up at 5:15 a.m. this morning. I was getting dressed, and he was watching T.V. I finished getting dressed and walked into the living room.

"Cullen, what is going on?"

"I am sitting on the couch, watching Maisy, and picking boogers from my nose."

"Cullen, you should use a tissue for that."

"No thank you, I have my finger."

Thankful...

Brent came up with a terrific idea for us to do. We each made a list of things that we are thankful for. When we completed them, we read them to each other. We all three sat at the table. Brent and I began reading and discussing our lists. Cullen said, "I want to talk." We asked him what he was thankful for, and this is the list he came up with:

God
mama
daddy
cars
rocks
candy
cheerios
church
cereal
fruit bars
friends
cookies
Greeny (a lizard that lives outside)
George (his stuffed lizard)
Wally (his Betta)

Don't be alarmed if you didn't make the list. I believe that he was hungry while he was discussing his.

Even though we are very thankful for our blessings and family year round,we have a family tradition now at Thanksgiving.

It's December

Hello, we are doing much better. Our last few weeks have been very eventful and hectic.

This is a run down of what has been happening:
*Beginning of November, Cullen had bronchitis. We were home for a few days.
I caught it, and did not go to the doctor. It turned into walking pneumonia. Off to the doctor I go.
*Meme came to visit. This was avery good thing. We were all happy to see her. Cullen loved every minute of her visit.

*While all this is going on, Brent is still trying get an appointment with the correct doctor concerning his broken eye socket.

*Got a call from Alabama on the 13th. My dad had a mild heart attack over the weekend and is having a heart cath on the 15th. On the 15th he went in for the heart cath. They decided to put stints in. One broke off in his heart, and he had another heart attack. They took him to surgery. He coded twice. By the end of this day, he had two open heart surgeries and coded 3 times. We were still in Texas at this time. He continued to go downhill so we loaded up and went to Mobile on the 17th. They were finally able to take him off the vent on th 19th, and he got out of ICU on the 20th. Things were beginning to look better. I relapsed with the pneumonia and was unable to visit him anymore. Brent took Cullen to see him on Monday afternoon and Tuesday. We traveled home on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving due to me being sick.

Thanksgiving Day: Brent cooked us Crawfish Fettucine. I'm sure that is traditional Thanksgiving Dinner somewhere. It is very good. We made lists of the things we are thankful for. I will post cullen's soon. My dad went back to surgery for a blood clot. It was successful.

The rest of our holiday was very quite including my B-day. We had lunch at Pappaduex's and watched the Texas A & M game.

We went back to work on the 27th, and my dad was able to go home. Cullen got sick again on the 28th with throat problems and a 104.4 fever. Home again for a few days.

Brent has completed the decorations on the outside of the house. It looks really good. Cullen picked out a candy cane tree, candy canes, and deer. Pictures to come...

I believe this brings us to the present. We had a very restful weekend. I went grocery shopping alone something that is happening more often. Cullen likes staying at home instead of going to the grocery store. Like father like son.

I would like to thank everyone for their prayers during my dad's surgery and continued recovery.