Happy Thanksgiving

Today I am thankful for my family. Not just relatives, but our friends that have become our family over this journey with our Charleston. Life long friends, new friends, and our SMA family that help us get through our day to day life.

I am thankful that doctors can be idiots sometimes!!!! Because that way, we get to prove them wrong....by having my Charleston at another Thanksgiving dinner.

I'm thankful that he has the power to get a 200 pound man to dress up in public as Buzz Lightyear.

Today we will celebrate, like everyone else in our country. But our celebration is a little bit different. Instead of taking our turkey dinner for granted........we are grateful for a little 23 3/4 month little 19 pound boy......that is the strongest person I've ever met, and what he is bringing to our lives.

Charleston, you have brought me more love than I've ever received.........I treasure your butterfly kisses............and I treasure what you are teaching my little family. I love how your parents love you and protect you; I love how your Unkie B & Auntie Catie love you; I love that Great Nana is putting up with a 10 day visit so she can get to know you. You are the love of my life, in a way that I never knew I'd feel. I love you, little boy.

Where Have We BEEN????

I know we've been "missing" for the last 3 months. LOTS of changes have been happening, so the blogging had to be ignored for a bit. But I'm back to catch everyone up!

Most importantly, Charleston is doing FANTASTIC!!!! We are counting down to his 2nd birthday, which is December 1st (more on that later). He is happy, healthy, smart, and thriving.

For those of you that don't know, we have relocated to the Central Valley of California, to a town named Turlock. The specialists at Stanford told Ashley & Cameron that they needed to get Charleston to a lower altitude to enable him to breathe easier. The first thing we did was get them situated at Gigi Greg Goeppert's home in Concord, where they stayed most of the summer. Cameron continued working his job in Reno, commuting between both places until he was able to get a paramedic job in Turlock.  (On a side note, this is where my mom was born and raised, and I have family still here!) Once Cameron got hired, they found a home to rent, and Cameron moved them here. Then I got busy and found a great tenant for my home in Reno, my dear friend Linda Moldovan helped me pack, my son & his fiance flew up to Reno and moved me to Turlock! I now have all my things in storage and am staying with one of my cousins and her hubby, Shane and Sherry. We LOVE it here, and it's been a wonderful change for all of us, especially our Charleston.

Ashley & Cameron have been able to take our little man on a couple of outings!!!! I'm so happy to see them "living" once again, and getting out of the house to show him the world. One of their first outings was to Pacific Grove & Monterey. They took Charleston to the beach that they were married so he could see it! They also took him to Yosemite for a day. He loves to go in his "rocket" (van) because he knows he's getting to do something fun.

You know us and projects! Charleston and I love to decorate cookies together, so this was one of our projects getting ready for Halloween. That's a big day for a toddler and we wanted him to get excited about it!

Little mama and daddy took Charleston to a pumpkin patch! 

 

Then he got to get ooey gooey!!!! Check out the look on his face :)

He even got to paint one!

This is all I have time to catch you up on today, but there's more to come!!!! Like.......our latest gardening project......and HALLOWEEN!!!!! Until later.......this nana is the happiest she's been in a lllllooooooonnnnnnnngggggg time.