Mimi and Jack visit College Station

Jack has been with Mimi and Papa since last Friday. My mom took Jack to visit Uncle Bill, Aunt Sonja, Mama and cousins Ashley and Cody on Tuesday. Jack idolizes Cody and follows him around like a puppy whenever he sees him. Cody will be the kicker for UNT in Denton next season and has given Jack lots of football paraphenalia. My mom told me that Cody got Jack a practice football and a tee and showed him how to punt. Too cute! Sorry I missed the visit guys, but love the pictures (thanks Ash!!!).

Theo's baby

We've had this stroller and baby doll for a couple of years now, reserved for the occasional girl to come over and play. Theo has started giving baby doll a ride around the house and is so sweet while doing it! Nothing like his big brother and the precarious "strolling". So sweet!!

Ewww

Our fridge died on us. It was a slow and misleading death, so we found ourselves with rotten food before we realized what had gone down. The freezer died first and the fridge came later. Dave and I had to seriously clean out the funk last night.......... even using the little shop vac to get coffee grounds out of the freezer. This is deja vu since we did all of this 4 months ago from Gustav. Drat!

Only child

Jack went to Houston with Mimi and Papa for a week. Theo was supposed to go as well, but the whole RSV thing messed up that plan. Now Theo is an only child and enjoying our undivided attention, not to mention all the toys that he can play with without having to share! Here Theo is enjoying the train table. Jack was such a huge fan of the train table and we are overjoyed to see Theo taking an interest now. It sure is quiet around here without Jack :( Theo's nose is disgusting from the RSV and oxygen cannula, so sorry.

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!

Christmas afternoon

We got a Wii at Thanksgiving and knew it would be so much fun to play at Christmas with everyone. Boy, were we right! We all sucked big time at Dance Revolution and played tennis, bowling and golf. We must have worked up quite the appetites playing the Wii........ because we feasted on a turkducken as big as Theo! A turducken is part turkey, part chicken and part duck with stuffing all mixed in between the meat. It was interesting but also very good. The boys mainly ran around and played while we feasted. Jack crashed at 6:30 pm and Theo took a 3 hour nap, only to be woken up for a breathing treatment and medicine. Thanks Santa!!!

Christmas morning

We got everything we asked for......... Theo home from the hospital for Christmas! The only thing we couldn't get was to spend Christmas with Dave's parents (Glynn is getting over a cold and Theo can't be around more germs than he already has). They did come over the day Theo was discharged from the hospital to spend time with Jack and to see him open their presents to him. My folks came here for Christmas and brought more presents (from several family members) than their car could handle! I could barely plug in the tree lights with all of the gifts piled around.

Here are some pictures of us opening the second round of presents. I don't have any of Jack opening Santa's gifts because I was taking video for Dave's parents to see. Jack was so tickled to see his "list" with "nice" circled and the cookies for Santa eaten (mostly). Theo could have cared less about opening anything. He didn't even assist with tearing paper! He pretty much spent the day eating candy canes, hunting for candy canes, or eating other things in between candy canes!

It was so neat to see the magic of Christmas through Jack's eyes this morning.