Holy moly the holidays came and went! I'm not even sure where to start and I'm quite sure I'm missing some things in this post.
Dave's parents headed to California for Christmas so we celebrated Christmas with his family a little early. Grady's first stab at opening gifts went ok. He made it through 2-3 presents, melted down and then took a 2 1/2 hour nap. By the time we had dinner all 4 cousins were loosing their marbles. Poor Lora, she worked so hard on dinner and we had to rush through it to get Grady in the car and home. Unfortunately he was sick and we had to get him home early to do his nebulizer breathing treatment. I've decided in years to come we're packing his pjs and he can fall asleep whereever we are because Dave and I feel like were missing out on everything having to leave by 6 pm.
Two weeks later we headed to Raleigh for Grady's first Christmas with my family. Suprise - Uncle Fran, Aunt Barbie, Nicki, and Mike all came up from Florida to spend the holidays with us. I'm so glad they finally got to meet the little guy who stole Nona's heart! Grady was much better at the gift thing for round 2 - although he seemed much more interested in ripping the paper than playing with the toys.
(Sidenote - we learned while at my parent's house his favorite color is purple. My little pirate!)
We drove back to MD on Christmas Eve morning and thank God he slept 3 out of the 5 hours we were in the car. Hallelujah! I... eh hem Santa bought us a portable DVD player which he let us open before Christmas so I think it saved us from a total Grady-in-the-car-too-long-meltdown!
Finally, we had our first Christmas just the three of us. We put a cookie out and showed Grady (he didn't seem too impressed) that it was for Santa. I was so excited once Grady went to bed to pull all the presents out and arrange them under the tree. I couldn't wait for morning to arrive. I had envisioned it going a little different than it actually did. He wasn't too excited about hanging out near the Christmas tree and he wasn't too thrilled about the whole present thing either. (Cue the sigh) Oh well, till next year!
I can't believe I did this, but I left my camera in Maryland when we went to Raleigh so as soon as my mom sends me pictures, I promise to update!
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