2009 November: Robertson

Greetings Everyone,

November went by rather quickly. I am still trying to figure out everything that happened during the month. I know that we were booked every single weekend. We had a temple baptismal trip with the youth at the start of the month, a stake activity day the following weekend involving a volleyball tournament and a lot of meetings, Thanksgiving with Morgan’s family, Meals and joint teaching with the missionaries, and a stake priesthood meeting for me.

This month the primary gave their Primary Program in sacrament meeting. They did very well, and Morgan is grateful that the kids behaved themselves on the stand and actually sang the songs. She is happy that it is over and doesn’t have to worry about it for another year.

Apart from worrying about the Primary program, Morgan has been making several trips to various doctors this month. For a little stretch she was going every single day. Things started to go downhill when Morgan developed a fever and became very tired and achy. We thought at first that it might be the flu, but she never developed any other symptoms. Her symptoms worsened over the weekend (when the doctor’s office is closed – of course) until other symptoms developed, and she knew exactly what she had. Early the following Monday she went to the doctor and was prescribed some antibiotics for mastitis. Since she is still breast feeding, she had to get a low does antibiotic. She has been taking four pills a day for about two weeks now. She should be finishing up the treatment soon. Other than that, Jamis has been to the doctor to get his 2 month check-up and again for his immunizations. He is a big boy. He is pushing 15 lbs and is in the 97 percentile for weight and 95 for height. I think that his bulk is what is keeping him alive when his sisters start to get too rambunctious. There have been a few instances so far when the girls will get to riled up they stop pay attention to what they are doing and make a running leap onto the couch only to land on or kick Jamis while Morgan or I am holding him. Our attempts to shield him don’t always work. Of course, when he starts screaming, the girls just look around bewildered and wonder what just happened.

I have been busy with school and just getting ready for the end of the semester. I also learned this month that I will be losing over half of my young men in January. Two of my young men will be moving to California where their dad found work and another young man will be moving to his father’s place because his mom just lost custody of her kids. This will take my active young men from 5 down to 2 (and I use the word active very loosely). Sigh. On a happier note, we are all getting really excited to head to Idaho for Christmas and see everyone who will be around. We leave in 12 days. It will be a sorely needed break from school.

We wish you all the best and look forward to seeing those we can in a few weeks,

Derik, Morgan, Jamis, Daria, and Kyla