Like most holidays, this Christmas was fast and furious though we were slowed down a bit when Avery became sick on Christmas Eve morning. Poor thing started coughing and sneezing with a terrible runny nose the day before. Plus, several sleepless nights since the Monday before Christmas. We stayed with Pops and Nani that Tuesday night so that we could just wake up, do some baking, open gifts, eat dinner and be at church by 7, then return home for our family Christmas. Good plan! Too bad all that goes out the window when you have a little one. David noticed her weezing the night before, then Christmas Eve morning she started it up again. We called the Doc, though we hated to be "those kind of parents" who call on holidays, but they were open til noon! So instead of doing all that stuff listed above, we headed to Midland. The waiting room was full of sick kids who were all coughing, of course. We even got a bonus in entertaiment from a three year old, talking back to his mother through a pacifier, not minding, then throwing a chair across the room THREE times while laughing all the way! Yikes! Anyhoo, we finally got in (the last ones of the day) and discovered she along with every other kid in that office minus one, had RSV! Scary! We were a bit nervous and curious and concerned about our little Avery. We changed all plans for the rest of the day. We did get our baking done though my cookies were a disaster abd opened some wonderful gifts. We had to miss church then ended up staying an extra night with Pops and Nani. I don't think any of us minded that one bit! Avery slept in her car seat that night and did much better that we anticipated.
We arrived home on Christmas morning around 10:30 to open gifts...but...instead we sat her in a steam shower til the hot water ran out, fed her, then put her down for a nap in the car seat again. Sooo...then around noon Dave and I had our own little Christmas. We had seen this all going a bit different, you know, the whole wake up early to see what Santa had put in our stockings, open Avery's gifts first then ours. Oh well, there's always next year, Lord willing! When she woke up, we opened her things, then I got cleaned up FINALLY and headed to Lonnie and Lanas for my fams big Christmas party. Aves isn't aloud around other babies since she's sick, so David stayed at home with her while I visited (for a very brief amnount of time). It was sad leaving those two on Christmas day especially since when I left David was eating a sandwich and watching Napoleon Dinomite! Again, not planned! The fam was good, would have loved to stay longer but it was time to head to Iraan! We met at Coy and Ashleys. Shug and Margaret were there but had to leave just in case they could catch what Ave's has. That was sad. Plus, Nana couldn't even hold her cause she was catching a cold! Poor Ave's didn't get to cuddle much there. We then ate and tore open some more goodies!
We had to cut our trip short so that we could get Avery home. We missed another James get together in Eldorado (too many other babies). We spent the rest of the weekend in our pj's watching all the movies we were given over the holidays. We missed alot of family including my brother and Lindsey and Averi who were unable to come home. But we enjoyed what time we had with everyone! Happy Holidays!
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