Dean was supposed to work most of the day on Christmas ev
e but was home by noon which was nice! So dean took Caleb to drop off his letter to Santa, a little late we know! then we had dinner with my mom before heading to church for Christmas eve services. the boys found time to love on each other when we got home, they are so cute
After that, had a snack and exchanged gifts from my mom and we let
the kids open the gifts their aunt had sent from Ohio.
On Christmas morning, Caleb woke up before 7 am and we had to keep
convincing him that it wasnt time to get up yet because we are lazy. Finally around 7:30 am they made me get out of my warm bed so caleb could open his gifts. Bo was still sleeping so we let caleb open all of his presents and let Bo sleep. Caleb was excited but was not too excited to mention that santa had the same wrapping paper as we do. As I was wrapping earlier this week I wondered if he’d catch on but thought, he’s 4 he shouldnt be paying that much attention but no he knew. I didnt offer an explanation and he didnt seem to care since it was his drumset afterall, which not even an hour later broke!
Bo woke up finally and didnt care about opening his gifts, he was too busy playing with Caleb’s new toys! Caleb opened Bo’s gifts for him while Bo played with caleb’s new stuff. We finally got all of the gifts unwrapped and began the assembling process. it took a while but we got most of the stuff together. The most frustrating, other than the drum breaking already, was that we had brought up the train table yesterday so when we put together Caleb’s new geotrax train we’d put it on the table. well the train is too big for the table! So much for good ideas. I was thinking we’d put it up on the train table so Bo and Caleb could play with it without bo having to sit on it or try to take it apart if it were on the floor. so that plan failed and i still have yet to figure out what to do about that. guessing we’ll keep the train table up here and use it for all of our new little people toys since theres room underneath for storage and we definitely more storage!
after much gift opening and trying to clean up most of the mess we headed to my grandparents house(dads family) for brunch there. we stayed a couple of hours and had fun hanging out with family.   Bo especially enjoyed eating all day! Here he is with his great grandmother, my grandmom, sporting a hat/scarf/glove set she got for him! it is sooo cute!  All morning long i kept thinking I was in good spirits and for once wasnt dreading having to face dad, maybe it was all the prayers about it or just deep down I knew it didnt matter. In the end it didnt because my father never showed up to visit with us or the family the whole time we were there, which was a good 4 hours.  nothing gained nothing lost I suppose.
We came home and continued to clean up the kids toys but in reality I still barely have found a home for all of the new toys.  yesterday we headed out later than we wanted originally to head to my brothers 2 hours away.  i wanted to stop at Kohls on the way due to a good sale and a gift card burning a hole in my pocket! but the long lines changed our minds, but Dean managed to lock the van keys in the van. it was stressful but i managed to crack open a window so Dean could reach in and retrieve his coat containing the keys.
we finally made it to my brothers after the key ordeal and massive traffic backups, literally minutes before we were told the time that dinner would be ready.  At least we werent late! so it was a busy weekend yet we still found time to relax.
I had my ob appt today.  A good friend came to watch the kids for me, she’s such an angel! to start off I was dreading the scale and I’d gained a good deal of weight in a short amt of time which wasnt good.  then my bp was up a good amt, enough to cause concern. the dr came in mentioned it asked if i was having headaches, check( including visual problems), back or chest pain, check (intense almost all day without relief despite using a heating pad for hours on end a day), or swelling check(in my hands) so off to get stat bloodwork and wait for results.
