Season's Greetings

Happy Holidays!  We had a nice Christmas at home, followed by some family coming over for dinner.  Zachery was so excited for Christmas and could hardly sit still on Christmas Eve while we talked about the nativity story.  He came into our room on Christmas morning and jumped on our bed.  His excitement makes the holidays so fun.  On the other hand, Avery has had a fever for about 4 days, which put a damper on things, but she is feeling better now.  Eric and I are feeling ill now, but with medicine, life goes on.   I feel like someone's been sick in our house since the beginning of October.  May we all be healthy soon!

Last month we went to Toledo's Imagination Station.  We have a pass and I'm looking forward to using it during our cold months, that is if we can stay healthy. 

 

I love this.  Avery took a doll and started hugging it and then found this stethescope and knew what to do.  Kind of anyway, she doesn't like the earpiece on her ears.  She played with the dolls for awhile, it was cute.

 

Zach had a trip to the dentist.  It'd been about 2 years, or more, so it was time.  My sometimes timid Zach started out concerned, even though we'd talked about what would happen...

 

but after he got to wear sunglasses, it was okay.  Go Zachery!

 

These next two pictures were taken at Thanksgiving dinner.  Avery looks like she has a rather large tooth in there, but it was a bit of food.  She took about 20 laps around our long table as soon as we got there.  It was her version of her "feats of strength" activity for Festivus.

 

A gentleman was playing nice music while everyone ate, and after he left, the kids all wanted to come and play a bit.  Zach was singing and playing here with his uncle Dave and cousin James.