My Montage 11/11/09 at OneTrueMedia.com

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My mom is going into the hospital for a complete knee replacement tomorrow. Cory is somewhat intrigued about her going to the hospital. He knows her knee always hurts. So I told him that she was going to the doctor tomorrow and the doctor was going to use a hammer and saw and take her old knee out and put a new one in.
He said, "No, hammers will hurt if they hit you."
So this led to a discussion that doctors have special hammers they use and they are not like the toy hammer you used to hit Mommy in the head with yesterday. Nothing like sending mixed messages huh!

Cory ended up with the smallest room in the house when we moved in. Mainly because the room was already a little boys room and painted in blue. It was also the room next to mine. At the time he was still in his crib and only 13 months old. The larger of the rooms is the "baby" room as we currently call it. It was a little girls room and as such is decorated in a lovely pale shade of green with large flowers and very very girly touches. The other day the thought hit me if baby 2 is a boy I would have to eventually paint the room. Since it is at least twice the size of Cory's room now it would make more sense to paint the room and move Cory into the bigger room so he would have more room for his toys and things. So I asked Cory what he thought of the idea. He was for it. I asked him if he got a brother and moved into the room and we painted it what colors would he like? His response...Pink and Yellow!

My parents had been away all week. When we went over to visit them today the first thing Cory said to them is, "Where's my bag?"..
No bag this time kiddo.... (whenever they go away my parents have always brought him a souvenir back) they didn't this time though.

Our day at the county health department.

I took a half day at work today because our county was having its second H1N1 flu shot clinic for kids 6 months to 5 years and it was exclusively for kids in daycare/pre-schools. The first one was yesterday and alot of Cory's class went to that one. I heard that yesterday's clinic was a mob scene with thousands of people trying to get in. The one we went to today was scheduled to start at 2:30pm...we got there at about 1:15pm and Cory was 143rd in line. It was very well managed and once they got started it moved pretty fast. We were done by 3:30. Cory had no idea what was going to happen until the needle was already in his arm. He cried for 20 seconds and stopped as soon as they gave him a lollipop. When we left there were at least 500 people in the parking lot standing in line. Cory was very well behaved and except for 2 times that I had to get out of line to go get him after he went off around the side of the building and I couldn't see where he went he did great playing in the grassy area with the other kids. I didn't tell him that he was going to get a needle I kept telling him that he was at the building for his immunization. ... In four weeks I am supposed to contact his peditrician's office for the second dosing if they have it in. He still must have his regular flu shot. His peds office is still out of that. After we left the health department clinic we hit Target for the obligitory after needle toy car purchase. I discovered that Cory is really into Christmas this year. He loved the trees and he had me buy him a little one for his room. Although...his original choice of tree was quite....ooooh how does one say....UGLY and looked like aluminum foil on a pole. He finally noticed a small little tree that had fiber optic lights and was small enough for his nightstand. I also got him a few Pixar Cars that are non breakable ornaments to put on his tree. He wanted to put it up tonight but I think I convinced him we had to wait at least another week.

Our Halloween

Cory and Old Nana (Sebastian)

Cory and Old Nana Redbird at the nursing home

Cory checking out the nursing home bunny rabbit

Cory eating the candy instead of handing it out to the trick or treaters

Ready for his costume to be off

So we had a nice Halloween. It was a busy day overall but in the end everyone went to bed happy..albeit much later than normal.

Cory was not really feeling the wearing of the costume love. We had several stops to make visiting both Great Grandmothers. So he had to keep putting on the costume to show the great grandma's and then taking it off again to go in the carseat to go to the next stop. My mom was with us and had to make a stop at the mall. Cory didn't wear his costume in the mall but he should have because they had trick or treating going on in the mall that day. He ate his lunch while Nana ran her errand and then while Nana was eating her lunch Cory and I went on a mini train ride on the lower level of the mall. Shockingly, the Santa area is all set up and Santa will be arriving at the mall this Friday night. I swear it gets earlier and earlier each year. I remember being suprised last year when our town tree lighting was November 15th.

After running around all day we headed back to Nana and Pop-Pops house to go trick or treating in their neighborhood because its much flatter than my neighborhood and most houses only have 1 step to go up whereas my neighborhood each house has 5 or more steps. I feel at Cory's age going up and down steps in a costume is too hard for him to do safely. He made out very well. We only went around 1 block because it started to rain despite our plan to go around 2 blocks. (1 block per year of age..LOL) At first Cory was very hesitant to go up to the front doors even with me there but once he got candy at the first house he figured out quickly that if he went to the door he got candy. Getting him to say trick or treat was near impossible. He said it at home but he wouldn't say it to the people answering the door. He had no problem telling them Thank you after getting the candy but he wanted me to say trick or treat to each time. Of course there was one older gentleman who made a big deal about it and wouldn't give Cory any candy because he wouldn't say trick or treat. Cory kept saying Mommy say trick or treat and I would and the guy says adults don't count the kid has to say it. Finally after several long minutes of me coaxing Cory to say it he finally did.

At one house Cory got some candy and then the guy told Cory he had something special for him (knowing Cory he thought it was a car or truck) and the guy hands him a toothbrush. LOL Cory looks at it and says "Cory no like that". The guy laughed and said well this is the time of the year to start liking them with all the candy you have. (So yeah, we have to work on manners)

By the time we got home it was after dark. Our towns trick or treating is until 8pm. So we handed out candy to the kids coming to our house and Cory ate candy as he handed it out. Cory didn't fall asleep until 10:30pm and was still up at 6am today. However, he did fall asleep tonight at 6:30pm..(yay time change).

My parents are going away for the week and then 2 days after they get back my mom is having a full knee replacement surgery. She will be in the hospital for several days. Cory won't be allowed to visit. The hospital is not allowing anyone under 18 as visitors unless they are a patient due to the H1N1 outbreak.

The washer machine repairman was supposed to come on Saturday morning but the repair place called and the guy who did the repairs requested someone else work on it instead because he has done all he can. The new person going to attempt to repair it wants to do some research first on the problem before attempting to fix it. They are going to call me on Monday to set up another repair day. I am still using it. I can get it to work...sometimes it starts on the first try (which is rare) ..sometimes it takes 15 tries or more to get it going into the wash cycle. I am averaging about 7 tries before it stars up and cycles correctly.

Let it snow!

Class Party

Parade

Cory with some of his classmates

Cory and Nana coming to my office to trick or treat

My little snowman

Cory's school had its Halloween celebration today. First a party then a parade.

After the parade Cory came back to work with me for a little office Trick or Treating. He filled his pumpkin with snacks people had at their desks. LOL

Tomorrow is going to be a chaotic day. The washing machine repair place is calling between 8-9 to let me know what time they are supposed to come. Cory and I need to go over to the nursing home to see my one Grandmother and then sometime in the day go over to my other Grandmothers house. Cory has to get some trick or treating in there somewhere as well.