Grandma Debbie sat with all of the grandkids and explained the meaning of Christmas. Then we all gathered in the living room and played the dice game with some gifts that Deb had wrapped. We all had so much fun and it got pretty intense when the timer was running out. We were all trying to roll doubles to steal the best gift. Each of us wanted the same thing...Tupperware. :)
After the dice game was done, we opened more presents. Emmy had just woken up from her nap and was not very interested in gifts at that time. She was complaining about her ear hurting again. She cried through gift opening and then she kept complaining about it throughout the night, so we decided to bring her to the ER in Alex. The week before, Emmy's ear had a bunch of drainage coming out of it. I thought maybe her ear had ruptured so that's why we decided to bring her to get checked. There wasn't much that they could do. They just gave her a shot and another prescription and told us to follow up with her doctor who put the tubes in her ears last year.
Erin started getting a fever on the Saturday before Christmas. It came and went throughout the day and I figured that I would just monitor her and if she still had a fever I would bring her into the clinic on Monday. Well, on Monday she seemed fine. Her fever was gone and she was happy. But Monday night she got sick again so Brad brought her into the clinic on Tuesday. That's when all the hoopla started.
Because of Erin's pneumonia and hospitalization we put all of our Christmas celebrations on hold until we knew what was going to happen with her. We were going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in Monte with my family. When Erin was discharged from Children's hospital on Christmas Eve, we decided that it was probably best if we postpone Christmas with my family until the next weekend.
But...after talking with everyone about their schedules, etc we quickly found out that we wouldn't be able to celebrate until February.
Our Christmas with just our girls ended up being Christmas Eve night. We missed our church service because we just got home from the hospital and didn't think it was best to bring Erin back outside and just wanted her to rest. So, the girls never got to wear their beautiful Christmas dresses.
Brad got me a new camera since I broke our last one. I got him a popcorn maker and some other odds and ends. Emmy had fun unwrapping all of the presents. She kept saying, "another one?"
I forgot to use my point and shoot camera and ended up just video taping the whole thing so I don't have any photos of us opening gifts.
We monitored Erin overnight and by Christmas morning she was fine and very much back to her normal self.
So we called back home to Monte and decided we would venture out back home....against both my parents' wishes. They soon found out how happy and normal Erin was feeling. My mom couldn't believe how good she looked. She saw her just a couple days before and Erin honestly wasn't herself at all.
We celebrated Christmas with my dad during the day and had our annual King Crab dinner. The girls got so many fun toys. Grandpa Brad knows how to spoil his girls. Tyler got a new gun from my dad. How many does he have now?? I don't know, but I do know that they built a new gun cabinet last year because they had so many guns between my dad and brothers and now Tyler too.
The girls got the cutest little TuTu's from my brother and Rachel. We'll show those in another post soon.
We celebrated Christmas with my mom at her house when she got done with work at 8:00 pm. Grandma spoiled the girls too. They both got "pillow pets," adorable clothes, toys, books and the cutest lumberjack jammies. They even have a "trap door" in the back. :) They are pictured above of the girls in the crib.
I feel terrible...since I got the new camera, I guess the battery wasn't fully charged. So, we never got any pictures with my mom. I was so bummed.
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