Week 3 (Dec 19-25) and Christmas

Miss Addelyn has made it to three weeks. It hasn't been easy but we are still alive.

This is at Izzy's daycare Christmas party. She is sitting here with her friend Grayson.

Izzy coloring a Christmas page at daycare with her friends.

Christmas treats. Life is good.

                                              

Izzy on Christmas Eve with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Brown. This is my mom's parents. Pretty crazy that Mark and I both have Grandma Browns.

                                                                  

It was a different Christmas this year without my Grandma and Grandpa K. But we made the best of it. Every year my grandma gave all the guys underware for Christmas and in our family we so lovingly call them Skuds. This year my Aunt Cindy kept the tradition going with hero skuds. It lightened the mood and made us all laugh.

                                    

Izzy loved Christmas this year. She loved the idea of Santa Clause but just not the idea of sitting on his lap. She also loved opening presents. All of them were for her even if they were mine, Daddy's or Addelyn's. This is a great holiday for the toddler. It makes it more magical.

This is our completed family. Gamma, PopPop, Mark, Me, and the girls.

The note Santa left Izzy after he ate her cookies and the deer ate their carrots.

Izzy and one of her many ( i mean many) presents.

Addie's first Christmas.

The girls both had deer on their feet for their Christmas jammies./ Izzy thought it was cool they matched. She is big into matching. She tells me our hair matches almost everyday. I love it how the simple things excite her. I wish I was still that way.

Addie's deer.

On the 19th we took Addie to another pediatrician for a second opinion. Doctor Coffey was great. She checked Addelyn and said from all the signs and symptoms she is not a colicky baby, something is truly bothering her tummy. She did labs on her stools and there is blood in there. We are going to wait one more week to see if there is still milk and soy in my system and if things are not better we will start the formula. That is not what I really want to do since Addie is such a great nurser, but I am so saddened by the constant pain she is in. I can't take it anymore. Izzy was such an easy MSPI baby. I took out dairy and soy and she was fixed. There must be something else like wheat or eggs that is bothering her and that is in everything. I don't have energy to check every ingredient label and try to find things that the whole family would like for  dinner. Sorry Addie, I did my best with the milk and soy.

The girls and I went back to GI a couple of days before Christmas. The Christmas season this year was such a whorl wind. All I know is that I had a sick baby that was in constant pain, Izzy just decided that she wanted Elmo from Santa and there wasn't one to be found, and I still had four family members to buy for. Whew! I did seem to fix all the problems but Addie's tummy. This Christmas was also a little different because it was our first Christmas without my Grandma and Grandpa K. It was truly bitter sweet. It was Addie's first Christmas and our first without them. We got through it and I look forward to new traditions being made.

Hope you all had a good holiday and we'll talk soon.

Ariann