We enjoyed out 3rd Christmas with Alec this year!! Unfortunately, Alec came down with croup on Monday and was a pretty sick boy all week long. It is the first time he has really ever been sick, aside from having a runny nose, and it was hard on all of us. They put him on a really low dose of sterioids to help expand his lungs so he could breath and sleep at night and they had quite the impact. They definitely made him feel better, but he was also transformed into some kind of 2-year old devil. Alec is already a wildman as it is, but the medicine pushed him over the edge. He was literally running from one said of the house to the other with no end in sight. It was actually pretty insane to see what a huge impact the meds had on him and I was glad when his three-day dose was over. Although they helped his cough, he was still fairly out of sorts all week long - just very uncomfortable, cranky and irritable. We were hoping he would be improved by X-mas, but that wasn't really the case. He had a horrible time sleeping on X-Mas eve (he was up for about 3 hours), so he wasn't in the best spirits come 7a.m. He definitely enjoyed all the presents (although he was more excited about unwrapping them than actually seeing what was inside of them) and he had a lot of fun talking about Santa, but he was still really cranky and didn't enjoy the morning like we know he would have had he been feeling better. So - here's to hoping that next year is a bigger success. Illness aside, we still had a wonderful Christmas and were SO happy to get to spend it together and with our families. Here's a little photo collage of our holiday!
Watching the train with Grammy
Hanging with Uncle Ross on X-Mas Eve
Running wild
Christmas morning
He loves his new jet plane!
This photo pretty much captures his mood
Checking out his new food with Uncle Ross
His very own "puffy" patagonia jacket - thanks Aunt Abby and Uncle Ross
Driving the new remote control car
Christmas afternoon with the Sungy family
A new remote control plane from Aunt Kat
Checkong out his new trains with Papa Gene
Grandma Susan
Seeing his typee play tent for the first time. Papa Randy and Retta sent this and we waited until the day after Christmas to unveil it at our house.
It's not small...
but certanly a hit - here is Alec inside with his new Thomas leggos. We have ALL spent plenty of time in the tent in the last week!
Thanks SO much to all of you who love Alec and were so generous with him this year. He is a very lucky boy, as are his parents!!
