2011 was the Christmas of exhaustion! Every Christmas really does feel like that, but nothing too severe that a nap can't fix. This year on the other hand Brode officially boycotted and was completely exhausted.
Friday night (23rd) Brode went to Christmas with Matt's family at his aunt and uncles house then slept at Grandma Beth's where him and daddy woke up to have breakfast and open stockings at Grandma's. I worked Friday night and Saturday morning/afternoon so Brode came home to Grandma and Grandpa and they put him down for a nap. After a short nap and a bath we got dressed up at headed to Christmas Eve mass at church. Brode was still fairly tired and wasn't too excited about the whole thing but once we were in church and they started 45 minutes early because it was packed he was fine! After church we had dinner at home and got a few things ready for Christmas Day before heading to my grandpa and grandma's to celebrate with my mom's side of the family.
Christmas Eve is always a late night, but the kids still had fun. Brode likes hanging out with all the bigger kids but he didnt have the patience to sit and watch present opening. He got a huge truck with a trailer and 4-wheeler so he played with that and spent the rest of the time sneaking chese and sausage off the kitchen counter. One of my cousins got a tabletop pool table and it was of course the first toy out of the box. The girls and Brode watched the first round.
He was taking in every detail and trying to get the best angles to learn the game of pool. He also kept calling it "Fish pool" because he thought the ques were fishing poles. He got bored of waiting his turn and raided the candy dish a few times.
After all the kids played Brode got a turn to try and hit a few balls. We were quite entertained watching him try to hit!
By midnight he was checking out and we needed to get home. Brode went straight to bed and we got things ready for a fun Christmas morning!
I woke up around 8 wondering why Brode wasn't up and anxious to get started (He is usually in your face at 7 every morning). He slowly woke up at 8:30 and we started presents.
His patience didn't last long and he was checked out again. We kept thinking "oh no we overdid it, he is bored with them" but Brode just kept complaining more of a stomach ache, wanting to get dressed, and wanting to snuggle. Not good, he isn't a whiner and doesn't really say when he doesn't feel well. Turning down presents was the major sign. We quickly got through as much as we could and as soon as we moved on to breakfast Brode walked himself back upstairs and straight into bed for an hour. He got back up and played for another hour, but went back down for another 2 and 1/2 hours. At this point we all know he isn't himself and he is pretty sick.
Christmas Day we had my dad's family over. The family is rapidly growing so our house was busting at the seams with people and kids.
(This is the family room, I couldn't get the kitchen, small living room, and basement! We were pushing 50 people!)
Brode spent the day in the basement with a fever and watching a movie. After some tylenol he started to feel better but still refused to eat!
After all the people left we did a quick clean-up and headed over to my aunt and uncles (mom's side again) to do a round robin, have snacks, and watch the Packer game.
By Monday we were all ready to sit at home and do nothing but play! Of course Brode spent the day sleeping and laying on the couch watching movies so his new toys all stayed under the tree wrapped up. He slept in my bed until 5:00pm while we did some moving in his room for one of his new presents. Talk about exhaustion!
Of course we weren't finished so when he woke up people were immediately over to round robin at our house but he was pretty perky after a nap and finaly ate his first meal in 2 days!
Tuesday morning we were in the doctors office to figure out what was going on. Sure enough, strep throat! The kid was miserable and we were putting him through everything horrible he could imagine. He has had some antibiotics and starting to feel better but still sleeping a lot:
(Wednesday's nap time, didn't even want to make it to his bed!)
Follow up post will show all the wonderful things we got for Christmas!
I hope everyone else had an enjoyable Christmas! We certainly did even if there was no snow and we had a sick little boy.
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