Christmas Morning

We had a great Christmas this year! We had Christmas music playing and a plate of cookies for breakfast. When Jack woke up he came out to see his new tent and tunnel. I don't think he even noticed the presents under the tree. He did great opening his toys and playing with everything. It took a little while for him to grasp the concept that there was a toy under the wrapping paper but he caught on. Of course in the first minute of his Christmas he went right for his older toys. We moved them out of the way and he didn't understand why they weren't in their proper places. The Elmo chair definitely has a place in the living room.
We weren't sure how long his attention would last but Jack stuck with the presents all morning. He didn't even seemed too overwhelmed. He had a blast! Jack's favorite gifts were his tent, an aquadoodle, a cell phone and all the Elmo things. I was completely spoiled this Christmas. Tom surprised me with portraits of Jack. He had them done a month ago and I never even knew it!



It was such a great surprise and I cried like a crazy person. He also got me a few new kitchen gadgets which I love and a blackberry. So exciting. :-) I was totally surprised and loved all of my gifts! Tom didn't make out so well. I got him a Sony E-Reader which we already returned. (I seem to flop every Christmas.) He got a watch instead which he's very happy with. :-) He also got an electric toothbrush, a Nerf gun, and a new motorcycle helmet. I think the only way I could have wowed him like he wowed me was if I got him a '68 Camaro. Maybe next year....??? Hahaha.






All in all we had a great holiday. I cried, Jack had so much fun and Tom gathered all of his return items and then we had lobster. Good times!!! :-) hahahah. It's a shame the day doesn't last longer!






We hope everyone out there had a great holiday too! We're sorry we couldn't be with family for the holidays! That would have been the only thing that could have made our Christmas better. (that and me getting Tom a gift he actually loved) Happy Holidays everyone!

Quiet house....

Today is Friday. I actually left work early today. I earned over 3 hours of comp time this week for working late nights due to meetings and SKIES classes. So I decided that I was taking 2 of those hours and coming home to see my guys and hang out with my mother-in-law. When I got home, the other car was gone and I walked into a very quiet house. They were all off shopping. It's just me and lazy Sadie. I have to say, I don't like a quiet house. I'd much rather hear Jack setting off all his musical toys, laughing or trying to talk. Noise is much better than silence! :-) Never thought I'd utter those words. Hahahaha
Speaking of Jack....the poor kiddo's been sick. Sandy, Tom's mom, flew in on Sunday and Monday morning he woke up with one of his eyes a little gunky (that's the true medical term...heheheh) Tuesday morning it was worse but through the day seemed to get better. Wednesday morning was not good. So we called the doctor and got him an appointment for that afternoon. Tom had his afternoon free so he and Sandy took Jack to the pediatrician. (I was bummed I missed out. This is the first time, knock on wood, that we've taken Jack to the doctors for something other than a well baby appt.) The results were that Jack had pink eye and an infection in each ear. I couldn't believe it. He didn't have a fever, he didn't show any signs of pain with his ears but sure enough....2 infections. So he's been on eye drops and the lovely, pink, bubble gum flavored, amoxycilin. He's doing so much better. His eyes which were swollen shut and all "gunky" have completely cleared up and he's great with taking his medicine. With Sandy being here I didn't have to take any time off work, which was great, but I wouldn't have minded staying home to take care of my baby!

Pictures

So I finally had the chance to sit down and load all of our new and not so new pictures on to our shutterfly site. I take a million pictures. If any one's interested (I know my family will be happy) head to our site.There are new pictures from October, Halloween, a visit from Oma and Pop Pop, Thanksgiving, an FCC kiddo party, Jack first haircut, Christmas lights, and of course more pictures of Jack in a box. Hahahahah! Here are a few of my favorite. Enjoy!

Paging Dr. Jack.....

So the fly swatter has been replaced. Of course it was only a matter of time before the swatter became a weapon. Oh yes....we have Tom's college roommate to thank for that one. Mike was here for a short weekend visit a few weeks ago and in the breaks we took from playing Guitar Hero he managed to teach Jack the proper use of a fly swatter: SEEK & DESTROY. So thankfully we found something to replace Jack's first weapon. A stethoscope. Don't ask me where we got the stethoscope. We found it with unpacking from the move. Just one of those things. So Jack now walks around with it properly placed on his neck. This will be a classic picture for his year book. God, I love this kid! Hahahahahah!!! Everyday something new!

Turkey day and decorations...

Well, it's been way too long since I've gotten the chance to blog. I technically don't even have the time right now since the pile of laundry is giving me the stink eye, but still, I choose blogging over laundry anyday.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Tom, Jack, Sadie and I had a great weekend. Tom had all his classes canceled on Friday and I took the day off so we had a long weekend. I cooked way too much food, Jack loved all the fixings but wouldn't have missed the turkey. It was fun cooking a huge meal. With working we don't get to have good dinners everynight like when I was unemployed. I love cooking so it was fun for me. Plus who doesn't love the left over turkey sandwiches? So that was our Thursday.



On Friday we did some shopping. HOLY CRAP! I hate freakish holiday grumpy shoppers. There were 2 shootings around our area in CA on black friday. One of them was in a Toys R Us. Are you serious people?? My goal was to do all my shopping on line to avoid such crazies, I should have stayed with that original plan.
SO after recovering from that we spent all day Saturday decorating our house. We had to buy everything this year. All of our lights were German and we were in desperate need of some real decor. Jack loves the lights. We go outside every night to see the lights before bed. The weird thing is we were wearing shorts and t-shirts when we decorated. It was in the high 70s this weekend. Crazy when you're used to having seasons.


Sunday led us to the tree farm. Oh yeah...the tree farm. Funny thing about living in CA.....it's pretty darn expensive. We've had a fake tree the whole time we were in Schweinfurt so we were really excited to get a real tree for the first time. In good ol' PA an 8 ft tree runs about $30.00. Here in CA...that same tree, (I hate to admit that this is what we spent but I really really really wanted a real tree for the Christmassy smell)that same tree, $100.00. They even charged us $3.00 to have it wrapped up in a net. Are you kidding me?? But we wanted that tree. I love having a real tree. It's all about the pine smell. So all in all we had a great long weekend.





I have so much more to blog about....stay tuned!