Thanksgiving came next

We were going to miss out on a traditional New England Thanksgiving this year, I was not ready to go back to the East coast so soon. And I was still scared about swine flu, influenzae and RSV. I essentially did not want them to leave the Rocksberg Step Down Unit and risk becoming infected. We will have plenty of years to come to enjoy that. Really, during this period, every patient I test for H1N1 in the clinic tested positive. They ranged in symptoms from the very mild to severe, but they all had swine flu. It was in New Mexico in epidemic proportions, as predicted. And I was going to make sure my babies were not infected. They did not leave the house for approximately the first year of life. Visitors had to be decontaminated. No one symptomatic was allowed in. We survived. 31 week premature infants facing this kind of threat...I was petrified, I was ready!


This year, Brian cooked an amazing turkey with all the fixin's. Nate was tasting it all and enjoying, Chloe was still very slow to follow suit on that idea, but she dabbled just a little.

There he is washing up to start his feast

Chloe is waiting patiently in her striped outfit for the occasion 

Nate is also decked out in his quilted car jacket

Cecila and Rob joined us for our first Thanksgiving together.


At around the same time, Nate, who has had his eye on Bailey since he came home from summer camp, was finally getting mobile enough to get to him

This is where we would find him- both happy as little clams!

Just kidding, he was propped in there, but when he starts crawling later, Bailey is his first target.

He also had his first big belly laugh while watching Bailey playing with one of his toys, darting across the room in delight.

The activity center was the newest entertainment. Since they are strong enough to keep their heads from flopping around and interested in "things" to grab, these two were awesome. They could press buttons, roll things, wobble suns, make music and turn themselves all the way around. Nate was happy. My entire living room was being taken over.