Christmas Eve

This year we had our Christmas Eve celebration at my mom and dad's since Christin was still recovering from surgery. We usually always meet at the Sawhouse so that was a little different. I was so proud of myself because earlier that day I cleared the memory on both the digital camera and the video camera and charged the batteries on both so I could record every moment of Hudson's first Christmas. Then I stopped at Target on my way to Mom's and dropped the battery to my digital camera in the parking lot and didn't realize it at the time. So I get to my mom's and am unloading the car and realize I don't have it. I was SO upset - ruined my whole night. I was upset enough about it that my dear husband got in the car, drove to Target and found the battery in the parking lot. It hadn't been smashed and wasn't even wet. Put it back in the camera and it still worked. So the holidays weren't ruined!
Hudson was more interested in the bows and wrapping paper than the gifts themselves, but he enjoys opening presents! And he gots LOTS of them!

My cousin-in-law, Dad and brother-in-law playing the first annual rendition of Silent Night.

Guess the pajamas were really red cause the pics all turned out like this - but these are the new pj's my Gammy bought all of the girls.

Garret playing on the Firetruck scooter we got him. He loved it. He immediately jumped on and starting riding around the room giving everyone tickets. I guess he has police and firemen a little confused - but it was cute anyways! He uses his tough, gruff voice when he gives the tickets, which is really cute.

Matching rainjackets - they have a firetruck on the back...

4 Christmases down - one to go

So we got home last night from celebrating Christmas with Jamie's family over the weekend. Jeremy and Alisha and their kids came home with us and the plan was to leave this evening to go to Iowa to spend the rest of the week with his parents up there. However, I woke up at 2 am vomiting and Alisha was sick all night too. To go along with the colds that Jeremy, Bryce, Alisha and Hudson all have. Plus Jamie was just home for lunch and said his stomach was starting to bother him too. So we will not be leaving tonight and hopefully we're feeling up to going tomorrow. If all 4 adults are sick that might not happen though - we need at least 2 drivers!
Flu and cold season - what fun!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Eve

cousins

Hudson finally got to meet his cousins from Florida last night. They are here for the holidays and stayed at our house last night and are spending most of the day with us today. Hudson has been enthralled just watching them play - definitely keeping him stimulated!

Kaedyn is going nuts because both Athena and Hudson are taking naps right now and she doesn't have anyone to play with. She wore Athena out playing fetch with her this morning, so she's hiding in my room and Hudson is down for a nap, but he's still crying after 1.5 hours. She keeps asking if he can get up to play...she finally just said "Hudson wants to get up to play but he can't cause he has to take his whole nap." I hope he takes a nap at some point so he'll be in a good mood for Christmas at my parent's house tonight!

Kaedyn playing banker in the playroom downstairs.

Mia and Kaedyn reading Hudson a book.

Bryce jumping on the bed - and almost on Hudson's head a few times!

sleep

Hudson seems to finally be figuring out going to bed - at nighttime anyway. He's been crying for about 30 minutes or so and then falling asleep. (Although I say that and he cried for an hour and a half tonight before he fell asleep.) Our newest problem is now he has started waking up around 4 am and won't go back to sleep even after I nurse him. He's never done that before - he always used to nurse and then go right back to sleep, but no more! We have tried just letting him lay in bed and cry and going in every 20-30 minutes and soothing him - neither has worked so far. So he cries till at least 6:00 am and then one of us will get up with him. Of course then he's ready for a nap by 8 am - but let's not talk about naps - he still doesn't understand what those are!

Maybe I should quit taking pictures of him while he is sleeping - probably waking him up!

But at least he wakes up happy!

Christin update

Christin did get to come home from the hospital on Saturday afternoon, but unfortunately she started vomiting and my parents ended up taking her back in Saturday night. Vomiting in itself is bad enough, but imagine trying to vomit with your mouth wired shut - yuck! I don't want to imagine it!

But the good news is they put her on some anti-nauseau meds and she started feeling much better by yesterday afternoon. She couldn't have anything but clear liquids until today and they took her off all pain killers except just ibuprofen (since that was probably what was making her sick - the pain pills combined with nothing to eat in 4 days) so that seems to have cleared up the nausea. She will hopefully get to come home this evening and will be on the road to recovery from here on out. Maybe she'll even have a Merry Christmas - only she can't have her favorite dish for dinner. I wonder what broccoli, cheese and rice casserole would taste like as a shake?!?!?! She might get desperate enough to find out!