Christmas Break

 We made it through the holiday unscathed. Everyone survived and we even had a little adventure. We didn't get much snow during the break, that is coming now.

I keep thinking about traditions and wondering what to implement, what to add, if we have enough. I try to relax though and convince myself that in fact we do have enough and as our family grows up and changes we will be able to add and change as we go. I suppose if my kids seem happy than that is a good indication.

Christmas Eve night Lily actually had a fever and woke up several times that night. Two of those times I sat in her room rocking her and what did I hear but little boy footsteps coming in from upstairs, rummaging through the presents, leaving, only to return again with double the feet and whispers of excitement and more rummaging.  I actually loved listening in. It was Kaj and Josh. This was 3:30 in the morning. They came down again at 4:30. 5:30 and finally at 7 we opened presents. 😂

Rowan was a lot more into the holiday more than past years and Jonah was also so fun to watch when he opened his gifts. The Lily bear was actually sleeping still when we opened presents because of the hard night she had and so we saved hers to open with her.

Rowan had actually been sick leading up to the break. He would cough so much and throw up, and for a few days was telling me his body hurt. The Saturday after school was out he came down uncomfortable again and laid on the couch at around 4:30 and suddenly it hit me he has pneumonia. I turned to Sam to announce my conclusion he had his doubts, but I got him into the doctor that morning and sure enough it was walking pneumonia. He got antibiotics and started feeling better. It was on a night we had cheeseburgers for dinner that he was feeling better and he still says that it was in fact the cheeseburger that cured him. He will say, "Cheeseburgers make me feel better!" Touché, my boy.

     In the meantime, I have been feeling really sappy about Lily lately. I am almost done nursing her and I am being such a boob about it (😂 I had to!) But, it really is making me sad. She is going to be 1 year old next month and as much as I really love this next phase I can't help but feel tender towards the little baby phase that we are past. I will never have a tiny baby again 😩 and I do love nursing-I mean after the first month. I love snuggling in bed and having that cozy time.

During the break we talked about going to Utah but when it came right now to it we were not able to pull it off. Since we did have a break and to do a littler get away we went to Portland and Tillamook. It was a really fun trip because we didn't stress about where we were going we just decided as we went. The kids were all really good in the car. We enjoyed listening to music and talking together. We ate some yummy food, and stayed a nice Airbnb. Rowan gets really excited about vacations and will say, "This is our new house?!"

We got the little kids down and played games with the older boys, but we also knew Rowan was not sleeping. He was making a lot of noises. He came in at one point after maybe 30 minutes of being in bed and announced, " I slept good." 🤪 We told him it was not morning yet and it was still night. He then said, "Ok fine, ok fine."

We also went to the Tillamook creamery, which is about an hour from Portland. They have recently renovated it and it looks nice. I don't know how it was before to compare but the boys really liked it. What was also great about the trip was how pretty it was in a part of Oregon we hadn't seen. It was so green with the moss on the trees, and the fields of farmland so high up that we would pass clouds by. We, of course, tried some cheese and had some ice cream. We took a detour from there where we wanted to go see some lighthouses but there had a been a landslide so we couldn't go there so we got out at beach area to look at the waves. It was a fun last hooray before school started back up again and good reminder of how much I love these people.

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