POOP!

I am fortunate enough to have an account at work that is a pre-launch drug undergoing approval for IBS and Chronic Constipation.  The past few months our team has been getting up to speed on the gastrointestinal tract, disease state, treatments, etc.  I now feel like I know too much about how and why we poop (or don't).

My new found knowledge has been truly put to the test over the last few weeks with Maelin.  The little girl has had some serious tummy issues and has had to go to the doc twice now.  I hope we are on the up swing and have found her the proper medicine. 

Because of this though, Maelin has morphed into our case study at work and is part of several internal and external conversations (imagine her embarrassment if she she knew what was up).  Today I received the below from one of my colleagues......sadly, I'm looking forward to being able to change one of these types sooner rather than later (never thought I would be so excited for the bug to poop!)

On a cleaner note, Maelin's school had school spirit week to celebrate the holiday season.  Below are pics we took each morning before we left for school.

Sports Day
(she out grew all her badger gear, so we opted for a red and white ensemble with some badger socks)

Pajama Day

Color Wars (each classroom had to dress a color, hers was green)

Wacky Holiday Day
(we tried...)

Tree Hunt and more holiday delight

According to Brett, my "scroogness" towards the holiday season officially needs to end this year...I didn't go down without a fight though and tried to convince him that I should have one more year without decorations, seeing as Maelin wont remember ANYTHING but I lost :(  So today we ventured out, got a tree and also "decorated" the house for the season.  What I soon discovered though is we had lost most all our holiday decorations in the fires (shoot), so this year our decorations consist of some pine cones for a candle jar and two red towels for the kitchen....so that part was easy.  The tree however was more of a hassle but we managed and Brett is VERY HAPPY............

 Off we go on our tree hunt

 Found it....Maelin likes 

All set up....a bit small but that means less needles to pick up

SO the tree is up, but we'll see how long it stays there, especially with our super naughty untrained Puggle home alone all day.......to be continued.......

Speaking of holidays, we had a good Thanksgiving last week.  Below are some pictures from the long weekend.  Maelin didn't have much success eating the turkey, we need to work on the chewing a bit more, but she was happy to play with the serving spoon. We also had some black Friday fun and then homeward bound back to Chicago!

 Yum Yum

Taking a break from holiday shopping,  large baby in a large hand

 Happy to be back with her buddy

And then she tried to chew him....