The Adventures of Sawyer: Our First Christmas

We were so excited to celebrate Christmas this year because of Sawyer's arrival~but when it came time for decorating the house (inside and out) we were NOT into it. It was so weird..we LOVE to decorate for Christmas! Keith decided he would rather spend time with Sawyer so he opted not to do any outside decorations and as for inside we did very little! It was a lot harder than we thought trying to get the tree up and watch after the little guy! Thanks to Keith's hard word he got the tree up and decorated it for us (which is a huge job since our tree is 10 1/2 feet tall!)
Christmas weekend ended up being pretty scary! Sawyer had had his 1st round of shots earlier in the week. He started throwing up (projectile vomiting) on Wednesday night and continued through Saturday morning (which was Christmas Eve). Of course that threw daddy into a panic mode so he called the Dr's office...and they aren't open so the nurse on call said to take Sawyer to the ER to make sure everything was ok. So, we spent Christmas Eve afternoon in the ER at St. V's. The checked him out and ran some tests and said he had GERD. Long story short...after monitoring him at home the next few days and taking him to Dr. Haider it was concluded that he had a bug of some sort...so no GERD and not a reaction to the shots.
I was so excited for our Christmas Eve service but was broken hearted when Sawyer was sick! Keith wasn't sure if we should even go...but there was no way I wasn't going to miss our very 1st Christmas Eve service as a family! We hurried around when we got home from the hospital and dressed him in his Christmas finest and ran off to church. Everyone was so excited to see him! Unfortunately, we ended up spending almost the entire service down in the basement because he was hungry and fussy..oh well....at least we were there, even if it was in the basement!
On Christmas day we were so busy getting ready in the morning to head to both Grandparents' houses that we didn't have time to open our own Christmas gifts with Sawyer! Thank goodness we managed to get it done in the evening. We had a great time at Grandpa and Grandma Zielinski's and of course they spoiled Sawyer with gifts!! After Grandpa and Grandma Z's we went to Grandma Yard's and had dinner with her, Uncle Paul, Aunt Marybeth, Maggie and Dan. We won't be celebrating Christmas with that side of the family until New Years Eve. We loved our dinner with them! We celebrated our family Christmas the next week on the Mullen/Yard sign and had a great time! Sawyer was such a good boy...and was passed around from one set of anxious and loving arms to the next!