"Christmas" morning at the Townsends

Well, while Christmas actually fell on Saturday this year, our Christmas was on Thursday.  We were trying to leave town to visit family and Santa decided that his items would not be able to fit on our sleigh.  We were hoping that Syd though she'd be celebrating Jesus' birthday 3 times instead of one.  Cali wouldn't know any different.  Needless to say, seemed to work!  Smiles for Syd all around.  Especially when she realized Santa had brought her the big girl panties and a puppy Pillow Pet she had asked for!  Afterward, Daddy wanted to take all for a nice Christmas breakfast and mommy and Syd fell down in the icy parking lot at Sunshine House.  She busted her head pretty good and mommy felt awful.  Fortunately she was fine and still happy about seeing family and what Santa had brought her!

SNOW!

Well this is actually not the first or the second snow of the year for us.  But it's the second since fall of 2010 started!  Syd was about to go bonkers in the house so dad took her out to play in the snow.  Cali was still sick so I stayed with her.  Temperatures were really supposed to start dropping so we figured we would get her out before they did.  Syd and daddy built snowmen.  One was supposed to be Cali and she was the other.  She calls them her friends on the video.  It was a great time for her!

Croup

So Cal has the dreaded croup.  Syd had it at about the same age but I don't remember it being this bad.  We took her to the ER on Saturday night at around 12:30 am (actually Sunday morning).   She woke up and she couldn't even catch her breath to cry which scared me so I took her on to the hospital.  I am so glad I did.  The doctors and nurses there said I did the right thing.  They were all so kind and helpful.  She had to have 1 breathing treatment and a shot of steriods.  Then they wanted to monitor her for a little while.  We couldn't stay too long because snow and sleet were moving in and we didn't want to be on the road.  After a while, they gave her another treatment (epinephrine) and let us go home.  She also had to be on an oral dose of steroids.  She seems to be better but we took her to her regular doctor today in the blizzard just to be sure.  He thinks she's doing great and we will continue to do the steroids at home.  Not a fun time to be out on the roads though.

Girls Night

I wanted Syd to see the Nutcracker Ballet that Studio K puts on here in Boone.  I knew that last year she might be a little too young but thought she'd be up for it this year.  We had two things going against us: weather and time.   Weather was moving in and I knew we'd have to see an earlier weekend show that didn't start until 8:00 pm.  That's just past her normal bedtime so I wasn't sure how it would go but we planned it anyway.  Daddy stayed home with Cal so she and I could go.  She had an incredible time.  She loved every minute.  At the intermission, one of the older girls named Victoria came and talked to her and showed her how to stand on her toes.  She also got to see her friend Kennedy in the show.  They made it snow inside the auditorium which she found fascinating.  We had to leave a little before it was over just because it's 2 hours long and she was exhausted.  On the way out, I asked her how she liked it and she says I want to do that again mommy.  I say maybe you can be in it next year.  To which she replied, but mommy, I don't have a tutu!  Too funny!

Mocker

One reason not to have the television on at dinner time:  Hearing a commercial in the background of our dinner conversation, commercial is saying "Call Now!"  Immediately after I hear Syd saying, "Call NOW!  Call NOW!"  No more tv at dinner!