Christmanukkah

With Hanukkah starting on the night of the 21st and Christmas on the 25th, it was quite a hectic holiday season!

Despite the small size of our apartment and our limited time for decorating, I think we did a nice job of making our stove festive. The Santa on the top of the tree was made by Marisa in 1981 and Owen made his own stocking at daycare (you can see it handing on the wall - it's the small red one).


We spent the weekend of the 20-21 up in Breck. Owen had some congestion from the dryness and didn't sleep well, but that didn't seem to slow him down too much in the morning hours (though his parents are a different story!). He enjoyed playing in the snow and even took his first steps (he stands on his own and will take a few unassisted steps when he is distracted enough but otherwise still prefers to cruise or crawl to get from place to place) or ride/push his new bike (a hand-me-down from Pancho and Coco):


For the first night of Hanukkah, we lit the candles, played dreidl, and Owen got a new set of toy car keys. Sean and I will hopefully never have to look for our keys under piles of Owen's toys again! Woo Hoo!


On Christmas morning, Owen (as usual) was up early and seemed eager to find out if Santa came. He wasn't too pleased to find that Daddy was still tired...


He seemed to enjoy opening his gifts and have sausage balls (a Raymond famiy Christmas tradition)


(this last picture shows Owen playing with a birthday gift from Roshini and Judd. Due to a FedEx error, Owen's gifts from Vovo and Grandpa didn't arrive so we let Owen open one of his birthday gifts. Roshini and Judd - THANK YOU!! Owen LOVES the magnetic farm and played with it for a long, long time!)

Then, it was up to Breck again to spend Christmas day (and the next week) with Nan and Pip. About an hour before we had planned to leave, Owen got fussy and had a low-grade fever. Assuming it was due to teething, we gave him some tylenol and bundled him up for Breck.

Nan and Pip gave Owen "Yertle the Turtle" and enjoyed watching his reaction as he opened the gift...


Unfortunately, Owen's low-grade fever became a full-blown fever (104 at it's highest) by Friday and we ended up at the Breck Medical Center for a diagnosis of a throat infection and confirmation that the amoxicillan he was on last week for the ear infection didn't finish the job. So, it's more antibiotics for this kiddo. But, we hope that he will be sickness-free in time for his birthday on Thursday!