Christmas 2011

The Thursday before Christmas, we had a big snow fall!  It made for a white Christmas, which is always nice.  Since Anthony was off of work on Friday, he tried to take Isabella sledding.  We decided it was best to go down  the little hill in our back yard.  That is big for Isabella.  This picture is just after the first sled down.  She looks happy!

 Then she went down a second time. 

 And that was it for sledding fun.  In her defense, she has some bad gloves on and they got wet very quickly.  Her hands were then freezing, so she wanted to come inside.  Oh well, maybe next time.  (I did go buy her some better gloves, by the way.)


On Christmas Eve, we had Gammy, Gampy, Aunt Jill, Uncle Alex, Jackson, Hailey, Bryce and the Greenwells (family friends) join us at our house for Christmas fun.  While we were waiting for everyone to arrive, Isabella was taking pictures with my phone.  Here is a pretty good one of Gianna and me.  We had a great evening spending time with everyone!

Christmas day arrived and Isabella was pretty excited.  We told her to wait upstairs until we all could go down together to see what Santa had left us.  Well, she didn't listen and we heard her talking to herself.  She found everything by the Christmas tree and was ready to open everything!  Santa left Isabella and Gianna little baby dolls.  We got them bunk beds for the dolls.  The pictures below were the best shots I could get that morning.  No one was cooperating very well. 

When Gianna awoke Christmas morning, she started coughing and it sounded like a barking seal.  So, we knew that it was probably croup and so Gianna and I stayed home while Isabella and Anthony went to Gammy and Gampy's house to celebrate Christmas.  It is not how I wanted to spend my Holiday, but we didn't want to get anyone else sick.  It was a start to a very long week for us, unfortunately.  By Monday morning, Gianna was much worse and we had to take her to the ER.  She had to spend the night for observation, because her breathing didn't get much better after a breathing treatment.  The doctors/nurses said, the 2nd night can be even worse, so they didn't want us to take her home.  We were discharged on Tuesday morning and Gianna was doing much better.  She continued through the week with cold symptoms, but wasn't quite herself.  Saturday morning, New Year's Eve, she woke up with a fever and was lethargic.  We ended up taking her into an urgent care and she was diagnosed with an ear infection.  She is now on antibiotics and is so much better.  Just a little cough.  We hope that our 2012 Christmas holiday will be a healthier one! 

You wouldn't have known it here, that Gianna wasn't feeling well.  She loved her new bike from Gammy and Gampy!

Isabella got a scooter, and helmet, from Gammy and Gampy.  At first, she was a bit timid to ride it around our house.  But it didn't take long for her to get the hang of it.  I have video and you might notice she about falls at the end.  She laughed at that.  Most of the time, she forgets to take her helmet off and is playing with it on.  It is pretty funny.

 

We wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year!