Life on Rosehill: Christmas 2012

Hunter woke up early on Christmas morning (like every little boy should) but he didn’t wake happy. I took him into our bed to see if that would calm him but it didn’t. So we went downstairs to let Bow out and to look at the Christmas tree. While we were looking at the tree I could hear Hunter’s tummy rumbling. He really hadn’t ate much the day before so I thought he must be hungry and maybe now he will eat! I gave him some yogurt and he seemed to like it and ate a good amount. I thought that I would fix him some oatmeal since he was eating so well. Well…once the oatmeal was made he stopped eating. But at least I knew he had something in his tummy now. We went back upstairs to wake Jeremy up. Once Jeremy was awake, Hunter made his way back down to the tree to check out what Santa brought him! He looked at his new toys and looked through his stocking. Hunter seemed to like all of his gifts! One nice thing that Santa did was that he didn’t leave packaging on most of the toys and had them put together so he could play with them immediately.

After present time (which took a while), we tried to eat again. Not a success. So we played with toys and let him watch one of his Sing and Sign dvds. (I really should do a blog post on these…he loves them and will sit and watch and sign along with it. So cute.) Naptime came, and again he went down easily. After he went down, I cleaned in the kitchen and then decided to sit down. I was feeling exhausted. (first sign of sickness) an hour later my stomach was hurting (thought I needed to eat) an hour later I was figuring out that I was sick and that Hunter probably wasn’t teething but he was sick. After Hunter woke from his nap we headed over to Jeremy’s parents house. I wasn’t feeling well but thought, surely I could last a few hours and enjoy the rest of Christmas day. Again, we arrived and Hunter was being shy. I think the amount of people there and him being sick played into his shyness. Before long he was fine and was playing with new toys. We opened presents (which I don’t even remember…I was trying not to be sick). Jeremy’s mom wasn’t feeling well either and ended up having the bug too. We sat down to eat dinner and Hunter was actually eating more than he had in a while. Made me very happy. But it wasn’t long and I had to excuse myself…sickness was hitting a new level. I now felt horrible and Jeremy took me home so I could be miserable by myselfJ I called my mom to warn her of how I was doing and that H was sick not teething. She then spread the word to everyone that I was sick. A few hours later my mom reported that Aly was sick. The next day Wes was sick and then finally my mom got it.

While I was sick at home, Hunter was having a great time with his dad, grandparents, great-grandparents and great Uncle. Jeremy said Hunter was in good spirits playing with everyone and spending good holiday time together. I was sad I missed it. So needless to say…I took one picture at Jeremy’s parents...bummed about that too.

Santa came!!

checking out his workbench

He got a turtle!

a new car

lots of toys

what to play with??

one of two pictures from the afternoon

and the other picture

I went to bed Christmas night without picking up the mess but in the morning I found that Jeremy stayed up to organize all the presents!! He knows I like to lay everything out to look at it:-) Made me very happy!!