December is always super busy and super fun for us! I love the holidays and all that is involved with decorating and baking and spending lots of time with family. Blogging time is not easy to come by since Jaydon stopped napping but here are a few updates from December.
Lily found Lucy's crib one day and was quite content to sleep on Lucy's 'pillow,' a burp cloth that we try and keep under her head still today just in case. She is much less spitty but still manages to consume, either through me or by herself, things that don't agree with her system on occasion.
Sometimes this is the best way to try grabbing a shower and getting something accomplished. Both kids trapped :) Though Jaydon can really just climb in and out of Lucy's exersaucer he stayed put for quite a long time.
Self portrait!
Decorating the tree!
It was so awesome this year because Jaydon wanted to help, he put up many ornaments by himself and it was fun to look at the tree and know that while it may not have been exactly symmetrically arranged it was sure done with love and enjoyment of the holidays with the Christmas music playing in the background.
I don't even know what number this was for our annual cookie making extravaganza but it still produces insane amounts of goodies and a good time is had by all, albeit tiring.
This year on cookie making day my sister was scheduled for an emergency gallbladder removal (she was sick for a couple days and after visiting urgent care on Saturday they realized it would need to be removed Sunday). While it should have been a quick 45min-1 hour procedure I waited by the phone and kept waiting. My sister's gallbladder was in such bad shape the liver had come down around it and the Dr. cut the bile duct, thus making for quite a bit bigger of an emergency involving a transfer to a different hospital for a specialist to repair it. Two 4-5 hour surgeries later she was in recovery but had a long road ahead. Hearing about this while at cookie making day I decided I needed to head south to visit so Jeremy helped pack the kids and we all headed out that night so I could get to the hospital before she was out of her last surgery about 11 at night. The photo above is Jaydon pretending to play a game while trying to get some lunch before traveling to get back up to school for basketball.
I am again coaching basketball and while my girls are working hard to improve we started out with many girls who have never played or only played a very limited amount of basketball which makes it very hard to be competitive with teams that have been playing together for years. Jaydon and Lucy make some appearances with me at practice and the girls absolutely love seeing them.
Lucy and Higgins (and Jaydon) aren't too excited about me having to leave them every day with a babysitter for periods of time. This self photo was taken after getting back one night early in the season from practice. Lucy was crying, Higgins and Lucy decided they needed to be held and Jaydon was somewhere around my legs wanting comforting too.
With all the business of travel, holiday festivities and basketball stuff Jaydon was worn out! He doesn't really take naps anymore but he ended up falling asleep while watching a show this afternoon holding his milk. It was cute, though when he does take a nap he wakes up very cranky and so it isn't really worth it to have him nap anymore.
Lucy trying some egg for the first time, thankfully she is handling it well so that has been added back into our diets!
This video does not do justice to the situation but I was trying to be a bit sneaky and capture how cute Jaydon was being. He received an ornament from Nana and Grandpa when he was one that is a photo of them and a recording of their voices wishing him a Merry Christmas and telling him they love him. He would play the ornament over and then start talking to it telling the ornament he loved them too. It was super cute!
And I just realized when looking at the calendar for selecting the date of this post that all of this stuff happened within the first week of December - CRAZY!
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