Christmas

Had a great Christmas this year but we were too busy. I felt bad that we had to rush through Christmas presents from Santa because I was singing with the choir at church on Christmas morning. I realized I can't do that again. I felt kind of bad. The nextmorning was so cute though... Grace woke up and come running down the stairs yelling... PRESENTS PRESENTS PRESENTS... Unfortunately she was quite disappointed when she found out there was nothing new for her underneath the tree.

She got a wonderful gift that I don't that she totally appreciates as of yet but... we got her a tent. At some point she will realize this is a great place to get away from her family. But for right now it is in the sunroom, funished with an Elmo couch and chair and whe sits in there when her Granny is out in the sunroom with her.

One of the best gifts given to Grace this year was from her Aunt Megan and Uncle George. I had stipulated this year I was telling everyone what I wanted for the kids. I didn't want them to get a million gifts. I figured between 6 and 8 were plenty. Every one listened for the most part and got what I asked... Well Megan and George out did themselves... I asked them to gget her a microphone... Well she didn't just get a microphone, she got a Cinderella's carriage Karaoke Machine!!!! Those of you who know me know that I LOVE KARAOKE!!! So you know who the gift was really for. Any way... we have ahd so much fun with this. Grace calls it her "Hello" machine. She turns on the microphone and says "hello... HEllo... HELLO!!!" The whole family was in her room the other day singing and dancing. Her and Mac got laughing so hard. It was soooo funny!!!

The gift she plays with the most however is that Leapfrog Fridge Phonics. I have been worried about Grace for a long time that she did not like to talk. I don't know if it's that she couldn't, didn't want to or what. Well being the paranoid Mom that I am I called people, talked to Speech pathologists, and then simply decided to wait it out. I taught her some sign language in the mean time to tie us over until she decided that talking was a good thing. Well with in a week or so of learning some signs she started to talk. This Fridge Phonics was something she saw at her cousin Mattie's and so I told my cousin Tracey that if she wanted to get Grace that for Christmas it would be PERFECT!!! Since getting this awesome gift for Christmas, Miss Grace has gone from only a few words vocabulary to TALKING MY EAR OFF!!! Others can understand her all the time but I would say 90% of the time I can figure out what she is saying. I have to say it was a great Christmas for Grace.

I must say that I would blog about Mac and what he did for Christmas but it was very uneventful for him... He was 5 1/2 months old. He enjoyed watching but he doesn't get it. He got a lot of clothes because... he has enough toys and he is growing out of his clothes by leaps and bounds.


I hope that all of you had a wonderful Holiday season. We did. I am glad that it is a great time and that we can all be together!

Sick kid

So my family is sick. Since 11:30pm my poor little Gracie has been sick to her stomach. I don't know if it is going around but we have been sick here since the 28th of December.

I was the first to get sick but I thought it was because I had surgery the day before and I don't always react well to anethesia. After it lingered with me for about 24 hours I figured it might have been more than just the anethesia.

Well during that 24 hours both my husband and Grace got sick once. Don was feeling a bit under the weather all day but Grace decided to get sick first... vomit in the bed, on the floor, on her clothes, and all over her Mom. I had hand surgery and couldn't get my hand wet, yet I am rescuing my baby girl from her imitation of the pea soup scene in "The Exorcist". Whe Don doesn't feel well he is, for the most part, not very helpful. I will give him credit for last Wednesday though, he did all he could to help me. I just didn't seem enough you know... I have a hand all bandaged up, vomit all over me, and well it just felt like on of those moments.

So last night, once again, Don and Grace don't feel will. Poor Grace is throwing up bile she is so sick this time. Don has moaned most of the night because his belly hurts. Grace has thown up about every 2 hours. I have tried to give her a little 7up to help her belly, but that just comes up too. She has slept with us all night and well of course it is my side of the bed that has taken the beating from her being sick. I'm up at this time because I have been doing laundry to get rid of that smell that comes along with stomach flu. Mac woke at 5 so I have just stayed up since feeding him. He is the only one who hasn't been sick. I don't want him to be sick... so now I have to figure out how do I keep him out of VOMITs way.

I am not good when people, including myself, are sick. I tend to have to buck up even when I'm not feeling well. Is that the way it is for most Mom's? Sick or not sick you job is never done. I didn't even get pampered after having surgery... (I'm having my own little pity party right now...)

Anyway... to all Mom's out there I commend you for all you do especially during this flu season when we are catching ourselves coming and going and making sure that our family is taken care of.