October is meant for scares! But not of this kind..

We had a pretend restaurant

at the Garden

A drawing we spent days working on

Giova's 6th birthday

Giovanni's road

At the International Market

October is the acclaimed month of Halloween where we dress in costumes and get candy by saying the phrase Trick or Treat! Or atleast that's how it works at home. Here I'm told its much different. But I've already had my first big fright and we haven't even gotten to Halloween night. About a week ago, Giova started complaining of stomach aches, but they were nothing major and so sporadic we thought nothing of it. In the middle of the night on Monday the 15th, he started crying and complaining more and more and was up all night. The next morning we took him to a doctors for an ultrasound, they found nothing but air. The next few days were a mass of confusion, phone calls to doctors, screams of pain from Giovanni, and loss of sleep. He went into the hospital Wednesday and had to stay two nights there. We've been worried and at wits end being with him while he whines and cries saying how he is dying and his stomach hurts so bad. A phrase I picked up quick, mal di pancia! The hospital was doing all that they could, the doctors said the problem was only an infection in his stomach and the way to make it better is if he can get it all out in the bathroom. This became the problem, he couldn't go. None of the suppositories or laxatives were helping. Eventually Thursday evening they performed something that I'd rather not describe, that was the last thing they could think to do. And he went a little, but not like he was supposed to. And again and again he complained of this horrible pain. It hurt to listen to him and to see him hurting so much. Later on Friday he was finally able to go more and the amount of pain he was feeling decreased monumentally. I was interrupted writing this by his arrival! We were so happy that he could be home. It is a wonderful thing. I am so thankful that he is alright. Now he is relaxing watching a movie and still complains every once in awhile but altogether he is much much better. Now that this is practically over with, we can get on to Halloween and all its wonderful festivities! In the next week we will get pumpkins and carve them, but I'll letcha know how that goes when it happens. Enjoy all the pics of Giova and I so far!!