Christmas

Well, we just made it back into town today from Houston which is why I am a little late posting. To continue from my previous post, Maddison made it through the night Wednesday without any more incidents of getting sick. So, Thursday morning, we packed up and headed out. This age is a horrible age to travel with. Maybe other parents are lucky enough to have kids who travel well at any age, but not us. She HATES being in the car seat for more than half an hour. Part of the reason is, I think, because her school is literally a minute and a half from our house. So anytime she has to ride in the carseat for longer than that, she's like, "Okay, time to get out!" And with her not feeling well and being really congested, it just made things worse. But we made it down in time to have a wonderful Christmas with Moss' family! We all got TONS of wonderful gifts for which we are thankful for. Maddi got lots of toys, including a giraffe on wheels from her Aunt Stacy, and a lot of new clothes and books! We are set for a while!

Maddi reading one of her new books.

Maddi sitting on her present instead of opening it.

Finally opening her present.

Sitting on Daddy's hat box. (It's what we use for stockings with his family!)

Grandpa helping Maddi open up her gifts.

Maddi and Daddy being silly!

Riding her giraffe from Aunt Stacy.

Maddi and Grandma. Maddi is in a phase where she almost flat refuses to even look at the camera much less smile for it. You have to really work to get a good picture these days. So I post the best of what I have! Little Stinker!

Maddi and Grandpa.

Maddi and Aunt Stacy.

The Fennell Family. Again, Maddi isn't looking but she is smiling! One out of two isn't bad I guess.

On Saturday, we went to see my grandparents, aunt, uncles, and cousins on my mom's side. Maddi had a lot of fun playing with Riley (my counsin's little girl...so Maddi's second cousin). She also got MORE great gifts!

Maddi and Riley playing.

Playing with my Meemaw's dog, Lucy.

Meemaw, Trisha, Maddi, and Riley.

Trisha, Maddi, Krystle (my cousin), and Dennis (my uncle).

Maddi and I with Peepaw.

Maddi and I with Aunt Traci.

Maddi and I with my Uncle Mike.

We really wish we could have visited longer but unfortunately we had to leave on Sunday. Maddi had totally gotten off her schedule by the end of our trip. She got sick a couple more times while we were there, but I think she has gotten over the worst of it. Being so off her schedule made the car ride home and bedtime a little difficult today, but hopefully getting back in to the swing of things with school tomorrow will help.

**On a side note: Maddi is definitely saying "mama" and "dada" very clearly these days! She has also weaned herself off the pacifier! We didn't even have to try. She just gave it up on her own. So I have thrown them all away! Now, if we could just do the same with the bottle!

Christmas Eve

Well, our Christmas Eve as not turned out quite as planned. Originally, I had a surgery scheduled today at 9, Moss was not going in to work, and so we were planning on heading out of town for The Woodlands as soon as I got done with work. Maddi did not have a great night last night to start with. She woke up around 10:45 after going to bed at 7:30 and had thrown up. She has had some pretty bad sinus drainage and coughing so I thought maybe the coughing had triggered it because other than that one time she was okay. No fever or anything. However, she didn't get back to sleep until nearly midnight making for a very tired Mommy and Daddy! So I woke up early this morning to get ready for work and got a text from the OR nurse we work with saying our surgery was cancelled. Yipee! Now I could finish packing and we could head out early!

Or so I thought. Maddi woke up coughing and gagging aroung 7. But she settled down after a couple minutes and seemed fine. So we gave her her bottle. My first clue something was wrong should have been when she only drank 2 ounces when she normally drinks 8. But still she seemed fine. She took another 2 ounces about 10 minutes later and that's when it happened. She threw up all over me and her. So at this point our trip was in question. She threw up a couple more times after that. Her and I changed clothes 3 times. But after about 8:30 she seemed fine again. We tried a little more of her bottle around 10 and she seemed to keep it down fine. So around noon we decided to chance it and pack up and head out. We got her in the car and she was exhausted!! It was way past her normal nap time. So we were hoping she would just sleep the majority of the way. She fell asleep before we even got out of the driveway! We got about 20 minutes down the road when she woke up coughing and then vomited...again. So, now what, we thought. We had some towels in the car just in case and I had actually caught most of what she threw up on that. So none was on her or her carseat. We were stuck in a little traffic anyway so I said just keep going and let's see. I know, what a bad mom right? But like I said, she would seem fine in between her little bouts of being sick. But 10 minutes later she threw up again. This time it got all over her and her carseat. I ended up having to get her out and sit her on my lap while we turned around and headed back home. She fell asleep during the 30 minutes trip back.

When we got back she again seemed to have perked back up. We got her in the bath tub right away which I think made her feel a little better. I again had to change clothes as well. She was starving at this point. We let her eat some crackers and rice cereal and she drank a little bit of pedialyte. But we were staying away from the bottle and milk! At 3 I layed her down for a nap. She sputtered and coughed for 30 minutes. I kept thinking she was going to get sick again but she didn't. She finally went to sleep and slept until 5 when we woke her up. I got a much needed nap in as well. We gave her more rice cereal and cereal puffs and pedialyte and she seemed fine. We just put her down for bed and we did give in and give her about 4 ounces of milk in her bottle. As I am typing, I'm listening to her chatter in her bed with coughing fits every now and then. I'm praying she does not get sick again tonight! If all goes well, we will try again tomorrow to head out of town. Although it will stink having to drive on Christmas. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Having a sick baby really stinks and makes for a rotten Christmas Eve.

Trevino Christmas

Sunday night we had Christmas with my family since we will be in The Woodlands with Moss' family on Christmas day. We had it over at our house which was really exciting for me! It's our first family Christmas to actually host! We had a great time! All the kids ran around and played together (except for Sadee who still isn't quite mobile yet.) We received lots of great gifts and Maddi loved all of her new toys! I really love it when all of my family can actually be in one place at the same time! It is very rare for that to happen these days since we are all so spread out. But I guess that is what Christmas is about...bringing everyone together! I can't wait until next year! That will probably be the only way we can all be together at the same time again! Haha!

Maddi eating the Christmas cookie that Sissi gave her.

Peyton and Kaily.

Kaily playing Santa!

Peyton with all his loot!

Peyton guarding his loot from Maddi!

Me with all my loot!

Sadee is done with opening gifts!

Maddi got this shopping cart from my brother. She LOVED it!

Trying to get Maddi to wear the Santa hat. She didn't like it too much.

The Heningers! What a cute family!

Trying to get all the cousins together for a picture. It never quite worked out! Peyton wouldn't smile in this one.

Peyton is smiling, Maddi is at least looking at the camera, but Kaily and Sadee aren't looking.

OK, Peyton is smiling, Sadee and Kaily are smiling, but now Maddi isn't looking.

And...they're done!