P's Knees

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 Happy Splasher

Patrick had knee surgery last Friday; in simple terms he had a large cyst removed from his left knee and had some cartilage cleaned up.  The recovery has been amazing and he is up and about and driving already.  He will start PT once a week for four weeks and he is going back to work tomorrow...office duty for awhile.  BIG THANKS to his mom for coming to stay with us this past week and helping out with Margaux and household stuff!  It was nice having her here and Margaux misses her Grammy already! 

Margaux is becoming quite the little lady...chattering all the time, taking care of her baby dolls, mimicking everything, showing off, loving her books, becoming more coordinated and eating better.  She still only walks along the furniture, but she should be trying the real very soon!

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!

We decided to spend New Year's Eve this year as a family and so Patrick and Margaux picked me up from work and we headed to the Lincoln Park Zoo's Zoolights.  It was really very pretty, but it was f-f-f-freezing last night and so we didn't stay long!  We checked out the lights, visited the penquin house, watched some ice sculptors at work and then let Margaux pick something from the souvenir shop...it was of course, another stuffed monkey!  As we were driving though the city on the way home we caught the end of the early fireworks at Navy Pier and had fun seeing all of the NYE celebrants out and about.  The city was so alive!  It prompted us to reminisce and laugh about some of our old NYE escapades...Jodi wearing a toilet seat around her neck on the CTA penny ride, partying with Tera and James at Emmet's Pub and having James cut my boot off me when the zipper "got stuck" (i.e., I was too tipsy to work the zipper!), Sarah and the Mason/Ferris boys coming down and paying strangers we met at a gas station to drive us home due to lack of cabs...always crazy fun and sub-zero temps!!!  Good times.  So anyway, we went home and enjoyed a yummy fondue dinner and wine and we watched the ball drop in Time Square; I loved that when I was little!  Today is cold again, but oh so sunny and beautiful.  Looking forward to Patrick's black-eyed peas and 'kraut!  Wishing all of you a blessed, happy, healthy, prosperous 2010!!!