This has been such a wonderful year for our family!!
Much to Brad's liking this year we have been able to spend Christmas at home! For Christmas Eve I made a huge meal and by the time we were half way thru dinner none of us could even finish our food! The apple pie still is sitting on the counter! We are blessed to have Dylan's uncle Chase here with us now and he joined in the festivities. Starting our own family tradition's is such a fun ordeal. Dylan very much got into opening his Christmas gifts this year. He made it very clear also that he did not want daddy's help in opening them. It was hilarious! He still though has gone back to some of his old toys, so now it comes time to wean out the baby baby toys and have the new big boy toys get some time in with him.
Last week Dylan went in for his 15 month checkup and the discovery was he has ear infection once again. This made mommy feel terrible that I did not pick up on this sooner. He has also had a nasty cold that we are trying to do anything we can so it does not progress further. So treatments every 4 hours with CPT and now the antibiotic for his ear infection, the combo seems to be working and he is a little better and definetely not any worse.
Dylan's daycare had a great Christmas party last week for the holiday. Dylan came home with a very fun toy and even a gift he made for mommy and daddy!!! It is very fun having Dylan come home with little crafts with his picture on it, we love to see our sitters creativity!!
So Christmas day brings a very fun day of relaxation for our family this year!! Christmas morning breakfast with the parades on TV is my favorite, Brad can't wait to play his new video games and eat leftovers and Dylan just army crawls from noisy toy to noisy toy and Chase has an afternoon flight out with his girlfriend to visit my mom for a week and a half!
We are blessed at what God has given us this year, a happy healthy family and the ability to share our love with each other at home this year. Quite different then the holiday we spent at the hospital last year. Just looking at the pictures from Dylan last Christmas brings tears to our eyes, we are soooo thankful that God has answered our prayers. Our little man has come so far and it is almost unimaginable for some people to even begin to try and understand what he has been thru. Christmas traditions have only just begun for our family and we look forward to continuing them year after year.
We are reminded of the birth of Jesus today and the wonderful joys that that birth brought to us. Celebrate with your loved ones and cherish your time together, it is all to valuable!!~
