Life has been non stop for whatever reason since we came home from Thanksgiving. I guess it is because as soon as we got home both kids and Matt were sick with a cold. The babies only had a mild version but Matt had to take some time off work to get over it. Thankfully we are almost over it all now.
Last Friday Ben went in to have tubes put in his ears. We had a super early appointment and were able to get home right before the snow started. He did a great job! He handled everything without one complaint or cry. The doctors and nurses were very impressed. He was a little wobbly and sore at home after the surgery but otherwise he has been doing great. Hopefully we will see good results for him in the future. He already seems to be picking up on more words, but maybe I am just looking for changes.
After we got home on Friday the snow started and it didn't let up the entire day. We got at least 5 or 6 inches. It was beautiful and Ben loved seeing it. It is the first real snowfall he has ever seen and could enjoy. Since Matt had taken off work for Ben's surgery we were all at home and could enjoy just watching it fall and staying warm inside.
While we are on our trip to Alabama the heat in our car stopped working. It was a major problem due to the fact that it is cold and the windshield kept freezing over while we were driving. It made it almost impossible to drive. We worried about it and checked into how much it would be if we needed to replace the radiator fan as someone suggested might be the problem. The mechanic said it would be around $500.00. That would really have been a major set back for us due to Christmas and everything else we are working on paying. So we thought about getting a portable defroster but couldn't find any in our area on short notice. Finally we started googling the problem and came across a few suggestions to check the blower resistor and the radiator fluid. It turns out that the blower resistor is a super easy fix. We called the mechanic and they wanted to charge $179. We decided to do it ourselves. You basically pull down the glove box and it is right there in front.It took less then 10 minutes to change it out and cost only $20.00 for the part. We were skeptical it would work, but low and behold the heat is now running better than ever!! Thank you Lord!! We were so happy we decided to do it ourselves!
After we fixed the heat and could drive safely we headed up to the Christmas tree farm to get our tree. It was fun to go in the snow! We pulled Ben around in the sled and he loved it! The babies got their picture with Santa too. Ben was completely freaked out but Felicity couldn't have looked more comfortable sitting on his lap. We are not going to be telling our kids the whole " Santa is real" thing but we still think it is fun to get the yearly picture. To them it will be a make believe story very loosely based on the real St.Nicholas.
Ben eating his cookie while waiting in line for Santa.
Ben was horrified and Felicity had no fear.
Looking for a tree.
Cutting down the tree.
Pulling the tree to the drop-off
He had fun in the sled.
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