Damron Holiday 2008

I would feel bad about not getting a post up about George's 11 month birthday, 1st Christmas and 1st New Years until now, but it's been an eventful couple of weeks. So I'll start from the top.

George turned 11 months old on the 22nd. I can't believe he'll be one soon, it's hard to believe! He's chattering up a storm now, though none of it is decipherable - we think 'ga' is dog. And he says dada and mama as well. He now has four (almost five) teeth and he loves to bite with them - anything from toys to the soft part of your arm - ouch! He is pulling up and cruising along furniture and will take a few steps from person to person. He does crawl now, but is not crazy about crawling on hardwoods (too hard and slippery), so hasn't had much practice at our house.

He's started to put things back together rather than just destroying - he has some stacking cups that he's figured out how to nest, which is pretty cool. It's fun watching him figure stuff out.

Now to Christmas - I think it was pretty wild for a lot of people this year with the snow and ice. I ended up working from home from the 17th of December till the 29th. Up until Christmas, George and I got out of the house twice. I was going a LITTLE crazy. On Christmas Eve we packed up and made the trip up to my parents house in Bellingham, which was surprisingly easy once we got out of Lynnwood. We had a nice Christmas Eve and at parents and George was up bright and early to open gifts...well he was up anyway. He needed a little assistance with opening packages, but was pretty into ripping the paper.

Here he is with his first Tonka! He is a little more interested in eating the paper...

Here he is waiting patiently for Daddy to get his Noah's Ark out. It has about 20 pieces and they were all attached to the packaging. Next year were taking all the toys out of the packaging BEFORE wrapping them up!

A couple of shots of all the snow at my parents - it was up to Carl's chest!

We had a nice breakfast with the Green side of the family on Christmas morning then came home and had a nice quiet Christmas evening at our house.

Then all heck broke loose (a little dramatic, but it sure felt like it!). On the 26th I woke up in the middle of the night throwing up. My first thought was that I'd just overindulged on Christmas. But after about 4 hours I wasn't feeling better so my next thought was food poisoning. Brian had to go to work so I spent the day laying on the floor in George's play area while he played and used me as a jungle gym. Then he got up from his afternoon nap and didn't look so hot. Shortly thereafter he started throwing up. That lasted about 5 hours. We had a rough night but the next day both George and I were feeling much better. But for some reason his fever persisted. On Sunday afternoon he got up from his nap and was just lethargic, and that really freaked me out. Plus Brian said he had caught him near some paperclips earlier in the day and we were worried he might have swallowed one. I tried to take him to the walk in clinic but they were closed so we ended up at the ER. Brian had to be at work for inventory prep but luckily my mom was down here and went with us. We spent about 3 hours in the ER (luckily not in the waiting room, we were admitted right away) and ended up with instructions to feed him motrin and tylenol. And he got his first x-ray (nothing there, whew!). By the time the motrin kicked in, we were waiting to be discharged and George was laughing and happily shrieking. Nice! Oh well, they might think I'm a crazy mama, but we had peace of mind. I did snap a photo...

On Tuesday morning, Brian ended up getting sick, so we knew at that point it wasn't food poisoning. On Wednesday I decided to take George into see his pediatrician because he STILL had a fever and just wasn't himself. We ended up with a bottle of antibiotics and he's definitely feeling better now. Still a little temp, but he's back to playing and smiling now, which is a huge relief.

So, that's our holiday adventure! We're banking on a HEALTHY new year and wish the same for everyone else!