Christmas Day - NEWS FLASH!!! Morgan Crawls!

Merry Christmas! Morgan gave us the best gift today! He full-on crawled. He's been scooching all over the place for about a month. But, today, he crawled across the room. We were so shocked. My mom, Dan and myself all saw it at the same time. It couldn't have been a more perfect situation. I'll post a video later.

Isn't this ornament hilarious! It's the leg-o-lamp from A Christmas Story. My mom came over to our house for Christmas day. She brought all of the food. I didn't have to do a thing!
Morgan loved opening (eating) his presents. He really made out like a bandit this year. All of the grandparents and great-grandparents sent wonderful gifts!

Dan gave Morgan this play yard. I can't wait to get all the other little kiddos in there too!
What a cutie!
Delicious!
Grandma Marie sent a t-shirt from Michigan. Too cute! I'm sure that Scott & Christi will want to "borrow" for Wyatt.
This picture is hilarious. He loved the Cheerio book and counting caterpillar. But, he has a disgusted look on his face.

Christmas Eve Lunch at Edgemere

What a whirlwind this Christmas was! We kicked off Christmas Eve with lunch at Edgemere with Lane, Grandmommie, Hillary, John and my mom (GG). It was chaotic and loads of fun. Grandmommie's hearing aides were working... yea! So, she was able to join in on much of the conversation. Lane's broken arm is healing. You can see a wrap that she is wearing over a smock to cover up her arm. We spent a little over three hours with everyone. Mom brought the birthday cake for Jesus... a long-standing family tradition.


Later that evening we joined Reni & Joel (GaGa & Poppy) with their family for more food! We feel so lucky to have them as neighbors. Morgan and Zachary (5 years old) opened presents. Morgan got a baby palm pilot and Zachary's gifts have Spiderman all over them. He's into anything as long as it has Spiderman on it.

Santa!

We took Reni's advice and went to the Santa at Bass Pro. Isn't he amazing! I think that we found the best Santa in town! I just love the shot of them looking at each other rather then straight at the camera. Morgan was such a champ. There were no tears. He knows that he is on the "nice" list.

Old Friends in Town for Christmas

I just love Christmas! It seems that so many of our friends come back to town for the holidays. Jeremie, Kristie, Amye and Justin stopped by last night to catch up. Morgan goes to bed around 7:30ish 8ish. Jeremie and Kristie were able to meet Morgan. But, he koncked out before Amye and Justin arrived. Jeremie and Kristie drove through a blizzard to get here and finally arrived at 7am! We were so happy that they took the time to stop by. And, I haven't seen Amye and Justin since their wedding. I need to search for those incriminating photos to email Amye. Hahhahahahaha (insert evil laugh here!)

Morgan's Still Sick!

My poor bee bee Morgan! He's still sick. He's been sick since Sunday. We're hopeful that this clears up before the holidays. Dan and I got our first dose of what many parents talk about when they have sick kiddos. Last night Morgan woke up screaming. He was in pain and there really nothing that we could do. I tried for over an hour to just hold him and make things better for him but nothing would work. At this point I'd been awake for 22 hours because I just couldn't sleep the night before. I decided to bring Morgan in bed with us. I laid him on top of me and that's when the vomiting began. That poor baby just kept throwing up over and over (on me). He was so scared. The incident sent him into another crying spell. We were finally able to get him calmed down an hour later.

I've had 3 friends tell me about the B.R.A.T. diet. They say that it's good to do when kiddos are vomiting or have the "cha chas". Banana, Rice, Applesauce & Toast.

I took him to the doctor this afternoon. Morgan weighs 20 lbs 4 oz. She said that he has a virus and should be well for Christmas. Evidently a virus is only contagious through contact. You can't just get it from being in the same room. You'd have to touch Morgan and then stick your hands in your mouth... or something to that effect. She said that it an adult got it... they'd most likely only be sick for a half day or so. So, to all you moms out there - just wash your hands and you'll be fine. But, I'm going to continue to bow out of all of our fun mom playgroups until after Christmas. This would for sure make all the other kiddos sick. They put EVERYTHING in their mouth. As for dehydration, she said that an infant needs 10 oz of liquid a day to avoid dehydration with a fever and 15 oz a day to avoid dehydration without a fever. Another fun gross baby fact: diarrhea in babies (or the cha chas, as I so lovingly refer to it) typically lasts for two weeks. One week down, one week to go! Yea!

This photo is from a few months ago. Christi would know the exact date. Morgan is on his first swing ride with Wyatt! We are at Central Park. That's Wyatt's mom Christi in the photo.