Holidays are Here Again!

Hey Quinny!

Mama here again. :)  Thanksgiving has come and gone and now Christmas is upon us once again. This year has been really fun and exciting because you are just beginning to understand holidays. I love it because I get to see the holidays through the eyes of a child again, so magical and a lot of fun! It helps me get more into the Christmas spirit since I have lots of fun things planned to do for you to make the holidays special and create family traditions and extend the ones I grew up with.

We went to Uncle Kavins and Aunt Laura's for Thanksgiving again. Every year you have been alive we have celebrated Thanksgiving with them. It has become the tradition and this makes 3 years of thanksgivings! Don't even get me started about how fast the last 3 years have gone by! I can hardly believe that your 3rd birthday is around the corner.

This Thanksgiving did not come without some discomfort. You got sick with an ear infection and strep throat while we were visiting and it broke my heart! You have never cried in pain or told me that your ears hurt before and I felt so helpless! Of course these things always happen during the middle of the night, or when you are away or on the weekend or holiday when nothing is open. Thank goodness for urgent care. You woke up at 230AM thanksgiving night crying and throwing up and feverish. I had to wait til 8am to get you to a doctor and it was so hard having to listen to you cry in pain and know there was nothing I could do short of giving you Tylenol and putting warm compresses on your ear and stroking your head and cuddling you. We stayed up all night; I think you drifted off maybe twice for about 20 min each, but it was a long hard night. Thankfully we got you medicine and you were feeling better hours later once the ear drops and antibiotics kicked in.

This weekend is the first weekend in December so I have promised you we will put up our tree this weekend. It is a small table top tree, but it will have to do until we have a bigger house.  I am SO excited to start all the holiday festivities with you. We have already went and looked at a lit up park and I have lots planned for this month.  This weekend is a train show we hope to take you too since you currently like trains.  There is a lot of fun in store for us this month and I am looking forward to creating some holiday memories with you!

Mama is also a bit sad this month. Grandma and Grandpa sold the home I grew up in this week and I feel like I have lost a part of me! I know I can be a bit dramatic when it comes to these things but it is just because I am a creature of habit and like things to stay the same. I will be in trouble in the not too distant future since you keep doing this funny thing called growing up! :)

I love you with all my heart!
XOXOXO
~Mama~