Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas eve with my mom and brother. It is tradition when we were growing up that we always got a Christmas eve gift on our dinner plate to "hold us over" until Christmas morning. So, Troy got his first Christmas eve gift: an ornament and "The Night Before Christmas" book with grandma's voice reading it.


After dinner, we opened gifts...we were all spoiled! Troy got lots of toys (so did the adults). One of the toys that Troy got was a "video game". It's a toy that connects to the tv and when you push a button on the toy, it makes the character on the tv do something. So funny that children already grow up with video games.


The funniest moment of the night was Troy throwing up in Uncle John's mouth. I had just finished telling John that he rarely spits up or throws up...John was holding him in the air and out came a huge gush of spit up. It was disguisting. I felt sorry for John but none of us could quit laughing.

All I want for Christmas...

is my two bottom teeth.

Troy's first tooth popped up about a week ago (sometime around last Monday) and his second one popped up this week.

Christmas Card Photo Shoot

I rarely send out Christmas cards, but ever since we thought about having children, we knew we wanted to send them out then. I love getting photo cards, and my favorites are the ones that have the entire family on them so I can see how "the adults" look too. So my goal was to take a family picture of us. I had envisioned the card to have a big picture of all of us and a small picture of Troy.

It only took 8 tries to get a good picture of Troy.


However, to get a picture of three of us was hilarious. I tried, Brian tried, it was really funny. We tried inside and outside. Here are some of the "best ones."

The blurry one (which would have been ok if it wasn't blurry)


The "I'm not gonna look at the camera" one (there are really about 50 of these)


The "We're not together" one


The "I'm losing my patience" one (from Brian of course)


The "UGHHHHHHHH" one


The "Everyone PLEASE just look at the camera" one


The "I'm gonna hold him" one


The last one I took...all three of us were finally looking at the camera, but it's blurry. I gave up after this.


I did get this cute one of Troy and his daddy though.


Oh and if you've been looking in your mailbox for your Christmas card...well, I haven't mailed them yet.

Croup

Monday night, Troy was extremely unhappy all night. You could tell that he did not feel well. We were up and down with him from 9-11:30 and Brian finally just got up with him around midnight. He noticed that he was having a hard time breathing. I got up then too and we debated what to do. I finally called the nurse and she listened to him breahe over the phone and suggest that we go ahead and take him to the emergency room...so at 1:30, we drove to Children's Hospital downtown. They were extremely nice. Several nurses listened to him and the doctor finally decided he had croup. We got home around 4:00 am. Brian stayed home with him the next day while I went to work. I somehow managed to function at work with 2 hours of sleep. Oh the realities of parenthood!

Mamma?

Brian was feeding dinner to Troy the other night while I was cooking dinner...Troy was fussy for some reason and was whining while he was eating. Through his whines, I heard him cry mamma as he turned around to look at me. I looked at Brian and said did he just say what I thought he said...Brian thought so too because you could tell he was searching for me. Who really knows what he said though.

Visit with Santa

Brian and I took Troy to see Santa at the mall. I had not dressed Troy in his outfit just in case he made a mess of himself before we got there. When we got in line, Brian picked Troy up and whew, a little boy really stunk...so we had to get out of line and change him. That was an event in itself trying to make sure that he didn't get his feet dirty.

Troy would not look at the camera, but he didn't scream. Santa didn't say anything to him at all. I felt like if Santa had talked to him, Troy would have looked at him. We didn't buy the pictures at the mall, this is a picture I took.



Santa also came to see Troy at daycare. They took some really cute pictures of Troy and Santa.

First "real" babysitter

I had a work Christmas party to go to this week, so we asked one of my auxiliary girls to babysit Troy. They both did great I think. She fed Troy and played with him. She said that he had a "blow out" diaper. I told her that just means that he likes her.