These two crack me up!

What a week!!

Last week was one of those weeks!  I will say at least the weather was nice, but if the weather was bad maybe it wouldn't have been such a bad week.  For those of you that don't know, Andrew had a little accident on Tuesday night.  The weather was great on Monday and Tuesday.  Mark had just arrived home from work and wanted to let Andrew play outside for a little bit.  I used that time to take a quick shower and get dinner ready.  Mid shower Mark rushed into the bathroom with Andrew.  Andrew was bleeding from his face and mouth.  Let me just stop and say the moment you see your baby really bleeding for the first time is not fun at all. 

Andrew had fallen off of his tricycle and hit his mouth on the driveway.  He chipped a tooth, had a fat lip, and scrapes on his face.  The bleeding slowed down after about 30 minutes.  My first thought was to page the pediatrician.  He could at least tell me if I need to take him to the emergency room or what to watch for.  The only problem with that was that he never returned my call.  After three pages to him over an hour time span, nothing!  That made things so much harder on us.  We didn't want to overreact, but we weren't sure how bad he was really hurt because he just laid there in our arms.  I ended up paging his dentist.  Thank God he called back and put me at ease.

That night Mark and I slept like the first night we brought Andrew home.  We had the video monitor on and the volume cranked up.  I think we both slept with one eye open.  I was so nervous that we were going to go the dentist and hear that his front top teeth were going to die and fall out.  I can thank google for putting those thoughts in my head.  Note: If your child hurts their baby teeth DO NOT search it on google.  Better yet don't search anything you are worried about on google. 

I was finally at ease after our dentist appointment.  The dentist said it looked a lot worse than what it was.  The teeth were not loose and were not knocked out of place.  He told us to come back in a week.  Over that first week Andrew healed so fast!!  His teeth were tender for a few days.  We had our follow up appointment this week and they took an x-ray.  They didn't see anything bad in the x-ray and he said it is just a waiting game to see if the teeth die.  We have to go back in a month.

I am so glad that Andrew is ok.  No broken bones and no major damage.  So I guess I survived my baby's first injury.  I just hated seeing him in pain.  I am so thankful for our amazing dentist too!!  If anyone in the Indianapolis area needs a dentist I highly recommend Dr. Bozic.

Boys Will Be Boys

Recently I was cleaning out a closet and Andrew was playing with his cars. I felt like he was being way too quite so I checked on him and this is what I found.

Choo Choo

Andrew's new favorite thing-TRAINS.  One of his presents from Santa was a train set.  Every morning he wakes up asking to play with his train.  A couple weeks ago Mark and I decided to take Andrew to a train exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum downtown.  Andrew was in train heaven.  It was fun to get to do something like this as a family.  Here are a few pictures from the exihibit. 

After the train exhibit we looked around the rest of the museum and found some other fun things to do.  We found out the whole downstairs is for kids.  So here are a couple other things we got to do. 

Andrew got to learn all about American Indians since it is the musuem of American Indians and Western Art.  He had fun exploring and did a really good job not touching everything or throwing any major tantrums.

He feel asleep on the way home eating his lunch.

Christmas in Indy

This year my mom, sister, and Justin came out for Christmas weekend. On Christmas Eve we all just relaxed in the morning.  We went to church around 4:00 and had dinner after.  Going to church on Christmas Eve has always been a family tradition for my family.  It always is a good way for me to clear my head and really get in the Christmas spirit.  After dinner the boys put their Christmas PJs on and we had Christmas story time.  Then we put out some milk and cookies for Santa. 
The next morning we all went downstairs and had our gift exchange.  It was a lot of fun to watch Andrew and Justin open presents.  They were both so excited.  We had brunch and then my family went home.  This Christmas was great!!  I feel so blessed and thankful for my healthy family and friends.  Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Family shot after church

Grandma with her grandsons

Christmas Eve Story

Milk and Cookie

Justin was so excited about his remote control helicopter

Andrew with his first gift

Digging for more

Grace enjoying her presents

If these cupcakes don't put you in the Christmas spirit, I don't know what will

Christmas Tree Update:
So, here is the tree with all of the decorations for those of you that read about our first real Christmas tree experience.  After the spider situation everything seemed to go great with the real tree.  We even went out of town for a few days and it didn't really dry out.  I kind of decided that overall I liked the real tree until it was time to take it down.  It wasn't horrible taking it down and we used a bag (thanks for the tip Megan) so we didn't make a huge mess.  The problem was the spider web on the star and the live spider hanging from it when I took it off the tree.  Then I saw another spider on a branch by the star.  I am so glad that we provided a lovely spider home for the spiders for Christmas.  So that brings the spider count to NINE.  The good news is that I have not found any spiders in the house...yet.  I think they just liked their little home in our Christmas tree.  Next year we may try it again, but I can't make any guarantees :)

The decorated Christmas tree

Christmas in KC

This year we visited Mark's family in Missouri the weekend before Christmas.   All of his siblings and their families we are able to make it.  It was great to see everyone in one place again.  Andrew wasn't great on the drive there or back.  We actually had to pull over because Andrew was crying so much.  I think he just gets sick of sitting in his car seat.  Next trip a portable DVD player is a must.  Andrew really enjoyed Christmas this year.  He still doesn't fully understand everything but he is getting there.  Andrew loved seeing all of his aunts and uncles!!  On "Christmas morning" Andrew was pretty excited when he realized what Santa brought him.

Andrew sitting in his new chair

The Creason Men

The whole group

Aunt Sandra and Uncle Keith

This is when we pulled over to give Andrew a break

We learned that he loves the music as loud as it will go

A Visit With Santa

These pictures pretty much speak for themselves.  We took Andrew to see Santa and he strongly disliked Santa.  The Santa was so nice and patient with him.  We were able to finally get a little smile once I sat with Andrew.  Yes...it was a little awkward sitting on Santa's lap, but I guess I had to take one for the team.  Hopefully, next year will be a little better.