All I Wanted for Christmas...

Were three healthy kids! Here is a little glimpse of what we had going on in our house leading up to Christmas...


Patient #1: Little M...She had constant fevers that ran up to almost 104 all day, for 8 straight days, a nose that ran every two seconds, and vomitting. She was not herself at all, not eating, talking, or even playing. After taking her to the doctor, we were told it was a virus and all we could do was wait it out. Here's a picture of her with a cool rag on her head, trying to smile through it all...

Patient #2: Miss T...Poor girl had a stye on her eye that started over a month ago and got progressively larger. All we could do was keep putting warm compresses on it and wait for it to do it's thing (not to be gross or anything). She also came down with a low grade fever, but was in good spirits.

Patient #3: G Man...He had been coming up to me all week and telling me that his ear hurt and I kept brushing him off because he didn't have a temperature. Finally, one night, the poor guy was in so much pain that he broke down in tears and I checked his temperature and it was high. I took M and G in for a "two for one" check up and found out he had an ear infection.

We were blessed to have all of their symptoms clear up by Christmas (for the most part). Cedric and I keep talking about how lucky we are to have such good kids. They never once complained and were always trying to stay positive. It gave us a whole new perspective on Christmas and how thankful we are for our family and little things that we take for granted (including health). We ended up having a great Christmas Eve dinner with family. I cooked up a turkey and a ham and 12 different dishes. It was nice to be able to celebrate with people we love. Here are just a few shots of us.

Christmas Eve...Aunt Tera made the girls little red riding hood towels and G was the big bad wolf.

Opening some family presents on Christmas Eve

Cousins...

Breakfast with Santa...

Christmas Morning...Santa put some Slim Jims in the kids' stockings. I know, our family has great taste in food!

The girls got a baby Chou Chou from Santa that gets a fever and its face lights up and it stops crying once you take its temperature and give it the medicine. Isn't that so suiting? Santa must have had "sickness" on his mind when he brought this!

M in her new dress up clothes...


We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!