A Busy Day: Snow, Two Doctors Appointments, Dinner with Friends, Hospital Trip

Yesterday, Kyle and I both had doctors appointments in Lansing, so we headed to Lansing bright and early with Brent. We dropped Brent off at work and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa Franks' house.

We played for a while and looked at the snow outside.

We were cheesers when Grandpa took lots of pictures!

Great Grandma Johnson came over for a little while. We played and we opened our presents from her!

Then we went outside to play in the snow! Emily HATED the snow! Kyle LOVED the snow!

Emily would only stand in the store for a couple minutes and then wanted to be picked up. She hung out with Mommy most of the time we were outside. She was afraid of Grandpa and Kyle because she thought they were going to get snow on her.

Kyle ventured off and played in the snow. He sat in it and rolled in it and played with it. He even played with snow balls!

After lunch, I headed to my OB's office for my 34 week prenatal visit. Colby's heart rate was 147 bpm. I lost two pounds in the past two weeks, but my belly grew, so there wasn't much of a concern. I passed a kidney stone on Sunday, and it appeared that all was better from that. Everything checked out all good!

Later in the afternoon, Kyle had his appointment for his echo. There was some emergency at the office, we they were 45 minutes late taking him back for his test. Grandma and Grandpa were with us, and both kiddos did great playing with all the toys in the waiting room and not getting impatient! Once we finally got back, Kyle did great. His was a little squirmy when he got tickled, but for the most part laid still and the tech was able to get all the pictures and measurements he needed of Kyle's heart. We should get a cal next week with the results. 

We then met Tommy, Allie, and Parker for dinner at Five Guys! Emily was crazy about Parker. As soon as she saw him, she knew who he was and wanted to play with him. It was nice to be able to hang out with them for a little bit... we used to hang out often and haven't very much since we moved to Ionia.

By the time we left Five Guys, neither Brent nor I felt very good. I drove half way home and had to stop to throw up... then Brent drove the rest of the way home. Once we got home, we both were feeling pretty miserable. We got the kids to bed, and I called the on call doctor at my OB's office because pretty much everything I had eaten all day had been puked up at that point. The doctor told me I needed to go to the hospital. Brent stayed home with the kids to sleep so that he would hopefully feel better, and I drove to the hospital and my parents met me there. After waiting forever, I finally got put in a room and they started an IV to treat me for dehydration and hooked me up to monitors to make sure all was well with Colby. After LOTS of fluids and some anti-nausea drugs in my IV, I was finally starting to feel better. The doctor was pretty sure that I (and Brent) had food poisoning. There is some bug going around, but neither of us had a fever, so she didn't think it was that. Finally around 6:00am this morning, I was discharged and headed back to my parents house to sleep for a while.

I am exhausted, but am feeling better. Brent is still not feeling very well... hopefully soon we will both be back to normal. And hopefully the doctor was right that it was food poisoning and Emily and Kyle don't get sick too!

Christmas Day

We had a long day.... Kyle woke up a little after 5:00 am and Emily woke up a little after 6:00 am. The kiddos both came to bed with us when they woke up... and we all got out of bed a little before 7:00 am.

We celebrated Christmas as a family here at home. Brent read the Christmas story from Luke and acted it out with the kids' naivety set. Emily and Kyle sort of paid attention... and sort of played with Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus. The opened their presents from us (some books). One of the teens in our youth group made them stuffed elephants, which they opened as well.

After we were done with our own celebration and got everything ready, we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Franks' house.

When we got to Grandma and Grandpa's house, we kept the kids out of the living room and ate breakfast. After breakfast, Emily and Kyle were very excited to go into the living room and open presents!

Kyle enjoyed helping Grandma open her presents too!

Emily pretty much opened her presents... and played with her stroller...

Emily and Kyle got a tool bench. I'm pretty sure it will compete with their new kitchen for their favorite new toy!

They got a fire truck with a jaws of life in it.

The kiddos their tool bench, a stroller for their dolls, the fire truck, a learning piggy bank, some books, some puzzles, new jammies, a Little People garage, and more...

Colby got his dresser! And a toy. 

All three kiddos got shirts... Emily's says "Big Sister"... Kyle's says "Little Brother"... and Colby's says "Littler Brother"... and they all say "Team Eubank" on the back.

Mommy and Daddy got new pots and pans, clothes, shampoo, conditioner, laundry detergent, and more...

Emily and Kyle tried on Grandpa's boots... They were pretty much as tall as Kyle's legs... and I'm pretty sure Emily's keep were not at the bottom of the boots!

We played for a while and then cleaned up. Around lunch time, Grandpa Franks' brother and his family came over. We ate lunch and then the kiddos went down for naps! The adults did a gift exchange and hung out for a while.

Later in the afternoon, Grandma Franks' sister and her family came over and Aunt Lois and Uncle Bill. We opened gifts from them... the kiddos got some more toys, books, clothes, and a few other things. Kyle helped pass out presents and did a very good job not opening presents as he handed them out to people.

We left shortly after dinner and came home for baths and bed time! Both kiddos were VERY sleepy! 

Daddy brought everything in from the van and Mommy got pretty much everything put away! 

As much fun as we have had with family the past couple days, we are looking forward to a quiet day at home tomorrow with just Mommy and the kiddos! We wish Daddy could stay home and play too, but he has to go back to work!

Christmas With the Carys

Yesterday we celebrated Christmas with the Cary clan. We had a yummy lunch, hung out for a few minutes, opened presents, and then headed home for nap time before church. We wished we could have stayed and hung out longer, but Kyle and Emily REALLY needed naps before church.

Kyle loved the fact that he didn't have to wait in between presents. (We opened all of ours first so that we could leave!)

Emily and Kyle got new milk cups and new snack cups! They got books and puzzles and some vroom vrooms (cars) and clothes.

One of the books they got has a key that opens pages. They got this book after nap time and LOVED it! They already got the book taken away because they wouldn't stop fighting over it! Hopefully they will share better when they get it back tomorrow.

(Sorry... I didn't take any pictures...)

Christmas With the Johnsons

Yesterday afternoon we celebrated Christmas with Grandpa Johnson, Uncle Trevor, Aunt Katie, Aunt Kara, and Ian (Aunt Kara's boyfriend).

Emily and Kyle enjoyed opening more presents. They were sitting in the living room for an hour or so and both kiddos kept looking at them and pointing to them. They were excited when we finally let them open the presents.

Emily and Kyle got a bunch of food to go along with their new kitchen. They enjoyed playing with all of it and pretending to eat the food and feed people.

Emily also enjoyed playing with a talking giraffe app on Aunt Kara's phone. She got all excited and was making crazy faces... apparently, Mommy was making crazy faces back at her!

Kyle had fun helping Grandpa take pictures!

We had a fun afternoon opening presents, eating breakfast for dinner, and playing!