Christmas Eve

It was a rushed Christmas Eve! We had medications to figure out (and fill), bags to be unpacked, children to bathe, cookies to bake, gifts to find (Santa hid them in some strange places this year!) and stockings to fill. Luckily, Papa filled in with the baking so Dave and I could give Theo his medicine. He's a little gun shy from the hospital and he threw up all over his Dad from screaming so hard when we were trying to give him his medicine. We learned to skip the crushed stuff and do all liquid medicines until this phase passes. No more chasing the baby around with Mucinex sticks for us! We let the kids open half of their presents since there were so many. The adults opened most of our gifts since there were only a few (in comparison) and reveled in having the boys together.

We also said goodbye to our elf friend, Eli, as his job is over until next year. It was getting harder and harder to come up with places for Eli to "hide" and even harder to remember to move Eli each night :) See ya next year, Eli!