Ellie was sad on Christmas Eve and asked me to dress up for a fancy dinner. As every party animal knows, you only have to apply red lipstick and fancy earrings to look like you've made an effort, so on they went. Notice I left my comfy-I'm-home-in-my-own-living-room-celebrating-Christmas white socks on.
The poor baby is not having any fanciness.I did dance around long enough to get this precious picture:
Look at them one year ago:
And now:
And then - melt...
And here's one from 2008 just for fun:
I thought they were humongous and all grown up here. I also just realized I have far fewer pictures of them together from 2008 because we were buzzing around to all four parties in 48 hours. Hummm.Back to 2010 - One more highlight from Christmas Eve was Santa calling. Our friend Mark Rhoades knows Santa REALLY well. He pulled some strings and had Santa call us even though he was sick, too!
They were freaking out. Santa said "Thank you for coming to visit me at Bass Pro!" and told them exactly what they asked for, and that he would do his best to bring those things. He was so genuinely fabulous that Ross woke up the next morning and said, "Where's my scooter?"Santa came!
Here are some Christmas morning pics - total bliss:
Here are tired Mommy & Daddy who had been up with Cranky Baby all night long:
I still like this version better than Cranky Daddy & Cranky Mommy dragging tired baby all over Springfield to the four parties. Are you noticing a theme here? I am so sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone. It was just really, really, really nice to stay home in our jammies on Christmas morning.
Spoiled rotten children!We played our Wii for about 48 hours and then Ellie went down. She threw up for more than a day, and we all (even the doctor) thought she had the same thing Luke had earlier. We hunkered down and again celebrated the chance to be home together as a family. Here is how we spent New Year's Eve:
Just kidding. I just realized I haven't uploaded those pictures yet. Forgive me, today is the first day since December 23 someone has not had a fever in my house. Stay tuned!
