Christmas Eve

Dec 24 - I woke up this morning at 10am. I was really tired from yesterday. I was in a much better mood than I was last night. After breakfast I hung out with Daddy watching him play his video game while Mommy got started on housework. Then I went with Mommy to my room. Daddy started to help tidy up too. He vacuumed the family room rug and I crawled over to watch him. They both were running around like crazy people trying to get the house ready for visitors tomorrow.

We settled down to eat lunch. After eating lunch Mommy gave me a special treat since it is Christmas Eve. She gave me my cookie that she made for me. It was a stocking that had "Nick" spelled out in sprinkles. I was so excited that I started to bang it on the tray of the highchair. I nibbled at the toe of the stocking and up by the K of my name. It was really good but Mommy decided that I had enough and took it away. I was all ready to get down and start playing now that I was all hopped up on sugar.

My nose was a pretty constant drip today. I have been coughing a bit and can't really breathe out of my nose without it sounding like I am sucking through a straw. Daddy gave me Tylenol again this afternoon and while I don't like taking it, it makes me feel so much better.

We took a family picture in front of the Christmas tree including Mommy, Daddy, Apollo, Osiris, and me. It only took two tries to get it right. Since Mommy and Daddy moved the presents to under the tree I was pretty constantly being told "no, its not Christmas yet" and being moved away. I punched tiny holes into at least two presents. I just can't help myself.

We did have to go out to the grocery store so we had food for tomorrow's visitors. Daddy pushed me in the cart and played with me. We have been having so much fun together recently. I did start to fuss toward the end of the trip because I wanted to be held and out of the cart. We got back home and I played in the fridge as all the groceries were put away. Then we had dinner. Then I had a shower with Daddy. I was so tired I cried in the shower for the first time ever. Mommy took me from the shower and got me dressed. Then she read me a story and I felt much better. Back out to the family room to open one present from under the tree. I tore into one of the presents I poked a hole into earlier. It was this really cool turtle. It has numbers and letters and a bunch of pictures. I liked it a lot. I also really liked Daddy's Santa hat and ended up pulling the little white ball off the end of it. Mommy laughed. I helped Daddy open his present. He got a Caps shirt. Then Mommy opened my gift. She smiled as she opened it and rushed back to her bedroom to get the pendant to put on the chain. When she picked me up the next time I immediately started to pull on her chain again. She took it back off so that I wouldn't break it again. After a few more minutes of playing Mommy finally put me in my crib at 9pm. She told me that I am going to have a big day tomorrow full of lots of people and lots of stimulation. I was asleep in no time.