It was, indeed, a very merry Christmas for the Codella family. We spent Christmas Eve with our friends, the Coglianeses. We enjoyed a great meal, the kids played and decorated sugar cookies, and we watched the Nativity movie. We came home around 8:30 p.m. to read Luke 2 (one of our family traditions) and put […]
Archive | December, 2007
Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Snow
0Tonight we let the kids open a few gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Snow. They came down for a couple days with Vickey’s brother, Charley, for the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl and to spend some time with us. And let’s just say right now – that deflected UCLA field goal attempt with three seconds left […]
Codella cousins baking fest
0We gathered on Friday with my cousins, Michael and Gina Maguire (my dad’s sister’s kids) to do our annual cousins cook-a-thon. Holiday treats were on the docket: Russian chocolate cookies, peanut butter balls and knots. Everything turned out great. It’s funny when you make something once a year how you have to re-learn how to […]
Christmas carols
0My sister sent this to me and I thought it was pretty funny. Christmas Carols for the Disturbed Schizophrenia: Do You Hear What I Hear? Multiple Personality Disorder: We Three Kings Disoriented Are Dementia: I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas Narcissistic: Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me Manic: Deck the Halls and Walls […]
Playing around on the floor
0Dominic’s new playground is the family room floor. He’s either there or on his sofa chair or in bed. Here are a few photos of the kiddies playing around. And here’s a photo from our family night activity last week: gingerbread house building.
One more Saturday before Christmas
0I just can’t believe we’re at the end of 2007 and that Christmas is a week from Tuesday. This year has really flown by. I spent my morning today working in the flowerbeds, trimming bushes, fixing irrigation and adding weed barrier (this wasn’t done by our ‘professional landscaper’). Seeing as how it’s been about 15 […]
Investigating child abuse
0Many of you have inquired as to the child abuse investigation surrounding Dominic’s broken leg accident. Good news! Yesterday we received a letter from child protective services with the following: The Protective Services referral was closed on 12-7-2007 with a disposition of unsubstantiated. So, it looks like that part of Dominic’s injury and recovery is […]
What’s happening in Henderson
0Here’s a quick update… Dominic had a good doctor’s visit today. X-rays from the front show his femur is lined up well and you can’t even see that the bone’s broken. From the side there’s still some separation but he said it’s already moving back together nicely. Our next check-up is Jan. 2. He said […]
Dominic sees the doctors
0Today Dominic had visits with our regular pediatrician and the pediatric orthopedic group of the doctor who the ER called in to put the cast on him. Both visits were productive and good for Vickey, Murriel and Dominic. He’s doing well. A few adjustments were made with his cast to provide a tad more room […]
Returning to normal
0Life is slowly beginning to return to normal — just normal with an incapacitated two-and-a-half year-old in a body cast who needs almost constant attention. We had our second visit from a home health care nurse tonight. She was very nice and Dominic was good for her, much better than he was for nurse number […]