The Cardwell Boys

A year or two ago, Mike bought a wireless keyboard to use with my old laptop, which is connected to our tv. Danny wasn’t quite ready to use it back then, but in the past week or so, Danny has figured out how to use it, especially the integrated mouse, and figured out YouTube. He will now spend hours (if we let him) looking at Thomas the Train videos on YouTube. It’s really quite a sight! Below are his two favorite ones:


For this one, he always starts out by saying “in this one, we’ll hear Michael Jackson”.

After a bad day Tuesday, Mikey started doing much better on Wednesday. He’s now back to being himself, being just as picky with his food as he was before he got sick!
Danny is also doing better, although he has a lingering cough and is still a little stuffy. We wish we could give him something for that, but there isn’t anything available anymore for his age group (what was available last year has been pulled off the market). He’s been milking “not feeling well” as much as possible though and we’ve learned that he will probably respond very well to placebos in the future. He’s becoming quite a little hypochondriac.

Grandpa: “So if I open the bedroom door, you guys will jump on the bed and wake up Grandma?”
Danny: “No, we’re going to tickle her!”

The boys are sick. Danny woke up with a cough on Saturday, and he still has it. Although now he also has a stuffy nose. Mikey, on the other hand, started throwing up Sunday night and is still at it. It looked like he was better during the day Monday, but then he started getting sick again in the evening and was a bit worse today. He just wanted to be held all day . Hopefully tomorrow will be better for both boys.

I don’t remember the last time it wasn’t freezing! And to think, winter has only just begun. On the bright side, it’s snowing today, which means snowmen!

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We took the boys to the dentist on Tuesday for their semi-annual cleaning. Danny apparently did relatively well, but Mikey… Boy does that kid hate the dentist! He just hates it when people go poke around in his mouth. I know they weren’t hurting him, but it was really hard to stay with him and keep my composure. The good news is that his teeth are ok even with the hypoplasia he has on almost every tooth. He got his first X-Rays taken and everything looked fine. At this point, it looks like his permanent teeth are free of hypoplasia, which is good. Unfortunately, he has my mouth, which means it’s too small and his teeth will be crowded. He’ll also need braces .

In the past week or so, Mikey has eaten a freeze-dried strawberry (found in a cereal box), pizza, and some fried rice. I know this all seems like nothing, but that’s huge for him! Hopefully, he will continue to try eating some new foods. Some veggies would be very nice. I’m hoping the pizza will help in that department.

And here’s also hoping that I didn’t jinx it!

We went to Mary and David’s house in Yellow Springs, OH yesterday to celebrate Christmas and had a great time! We left a little after 10AM yesterday morning and arrived back home a little after 9PM. We were pretty lucky with the weather: it was above freezing most of the day, and while it rained on the way over, it could have been a lot worse! We did get some light snow when we arrived home and have had some more snow today, but barely any accumulation so far.
The kids continued eating horribly yesterday by feasting on cookies Susan made (they were very yummy). This after the M&M binging on Christmas Eve. Oh well, they’re back on track now! Us adults ate ham, cheese grits, veggies, crackers, cheese, etc. All very tasty!
We started opening presents soon after we arrived and it took us the better part of the afternoon. The kids loved their presents (too many to list) and played with them non-stop yesterday and have played with them almost all day long. At least when they’re not running around the house like they are now. I loved all of my presents as well (books, globe puzzle, a Nintendo DS Tetris game and microwaveable socks which I’ll try out tonight)!
The kids were feeling the effects of playing too much on Christmas eve and then not really sleeping enough that night. I was really hoping they would fall asleep in the car on the way over, but it wasn’t meant to be. Come about 6PM, even Danny admitted that he was tired and asked to go home. We left a little before 7PM and they fell asleep within about 20 minutes. That’s about 1 hour before they usually go to bed!

Here’s a little video of Danny after we put up the Christmas tree last month. He was so proud!

Christmas Tree from Marianne Cardwell on Vimeo.

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