Christmas the Three of Us!

A few days before we left for PA- Jeremiah woke up with a bad cough- again- we had all been battling being sick for most of December.  For a few days he was not himself, he would sit on the floor and just wimper and cry.  So needless to say, on Thursday I took him to the doctor and he had a bad sinus cold with a bad case of teething- so I took him home and gave him tylenol.  :)  Maybe this time I will learn not to run to the doctor for everything but I was convinced he had an ear infection.  Thankfully, Dr. Bird was a wise man and I am thankful he does not just dish out those antibiotics.  So needless to say, it was a rough week before we left.  Two nights before we left, Jeremiah was up in the night and I was not sleeping well so by the time we left for PA- we were all pretty exhausted.  That and a hefty car bill when our muffler and other things died made the week before Christmas quite a doozy for us. 

The night before we left for PA- we celebrated our Family Christmas- just the three of us this year!  Jeremiah sported his First Christmas Outfit- given to us by Aunt Laura Lyons.  We got all cozy in our pjs- well kinda- and listened to some Christmas music and read Jeremiah a fun Christmas book he received from the Verhagens- "Song of the Stars," by Sally Lloyd-Jones, a really neat new book that has come out.  We ate Michael's famous gluten free pizza and spent time together and opened presents.  Jeremiah was not too thrilled with the paper- he just went for all the boxes and packages this year.

 Jeremiah got some baby mittens, socks (practical stuff right?), some banana puffs, baby food, a Jewish rubber ducky for the tub, A Creepy Crawlers book for boys and some animals.

Michael got me a fun date out to First Watch and to a movie and he got me two Baby Wise books to follow along in the sequence and some yummy fun foods and my Jillian Michaels workout video. 





I got Michael a date to his favorite restaurant BJ's with gluten free pizza and now dessert and got him some new slippers (the others were duck taped) and created a mousepad for him as well as got him some Piper study dvds and other odds and ends. 

Jeremiah is sporting his new pajamies from Grandpa & Grandma Growl!  (Lyons)



His teeth were hurting!





Jeremiah's very first Christmas!



Eating his duckie



Eating his socks