Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!

Tacky Day

When you work in a preschool, you go a little crazy sometimes. You need a little break from the whining, the crying, the stinky diapers, the baby talk, the time outs. You need to create a day that gives YOU the chance to be the silly one. A day that gives everyone a little laugh, and therefore, a little boost of energy to make it through the last day before your Christmas break. You need... a "Tacky Christmas Day." The rules for this Tacky Day were simple: anything goes. Ugly sweaters, ugly vests, mismatched items, tacky jewelry. You can see the results below.

These two were tacky, but simple.

Gold leggings? Please! Sooooo tacky.

Faded plaid jumpers and mismatched things? TACKY.

And the professional woman herself. Yes, I am wearing Christmas socks over tights with moccasins.

HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY MERRY AND TACKY CHRISTMAS!!

Have a good holiday laugh!

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It's almost Christmas...

...and I have a sick baby. Tuesday morning, Abbott started throwing up. He didn't keep anything down the whole day. Wednesday, he went to Grammie's house while I went to work where he had diarrhea most of the morning and then started throwing up that afternoon. I took him to the doctor where I was informed that I was about the tenth mom with the same information that day. Wonderful news. I was told that Abbott was on the brink of dehydration and if I didn't want to take him to the emergency room, I had to give him one teaspoon of Pedialyte every five minutes for an hour. If he could keep that down, I could increase it to two teaspoons every five minutes for an hour, repeating the process and gradually increasing amounts until he could hold down an ounce or two of Pedialyte and then we could try formula again in small amounts. Well, we have done that process since Wednesday night three times. Each time we get to an ounce or two of formula, it comes right back up. He is such a sad little baby right now because he wants to play but he gets so tired so quickly. Anyway, our doctor has a walk in clinic tomorrow and we are going to go and make sure we are still doing the right thing. They said a stomach virus can last a week or more sometimes.....I sure hope we're coming to the end of it. We were supposed to leave this morning for Kentucky to spend some time with Ryan's family and we had to cancel. So sad, but it is for the best I am sure. We are supposed to leave for Texas on Friday so just pray that he will be better before then. Caring for a sick baby is tiring!

On a much happier note, here are some pictures from fairly recently. Enjoy!

Look at those beautiful eyes!

"LUKE...I am your FAH-THAH."

LOOK WHAT ABBOTT CAN DO!!

Happy boy!

He sure does love his daddy.

2 new videos for you

Abbott is doing so many new things very recently. Over the weekend, he got himself from sitting to all fours (once he wants to move forward, however, he splats out like a pancake and rolls to the object of his desire). Today he pulled up to standing from sitting. Oh how our lives are about to change! Neither of these videos show any of that progress, but I think they are great. This first one shows how intensely Abbott concentrates. He has a certain sound he makes when he really focuses on something. In this case, it's the tag on his orange frog.



And of course, everyone always loves to see and hear a baby laughing!

BEST. BURPCLOTH. EVER.

Abbott, after a day of very little napping and in a state of delirium, having SO MUCH FUN with his burpcloth.

I love my job??

It's really fun to know that some days I come home and it's literally written on my face what kind of day I had. I got these scars from trying to keep a 4 year old from turning on the lights at nap time....for the whole nap time. Click on the picture to really see it up close.