{"id":5751,"date":"2011-12-25T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T03:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2011-12-25T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T04:30:41","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=5751","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, what a week.\u00a0 We managed to back in Henry’s first week home, visits from Grandma and Grandpa, Mimi and Papa, Aunt Lala, Uncle B, Stacey, Ben, Anna and Jackie, and Christmas all in one week.\u00a0 As a result, I believe that we set a new record for number of pictures in a week, at 272.\u00a0 Henry has been doing great adjusting to life at home, although he seems to have his days and nights a bit confused.\u00a0 He will sleep for 4-6 hours straight during the day, but only 2-4 at night.\u00a0 Hopefully we can get that straightened around soon.\u00a0 Eleanor is also adjusting well, and hasn’t shown too many signs of jealousy yet.\u00a0 She has really enjoyed unwrapping and playing with all of Henry’s presents – that probably won’t fly next year :) .\u00a0\u00a0 Eleanor has been working on some new skills this week – she has added “Wheels on the Bus” to her list of duets – she sings the word “up” in the verse, “The people on the bus go up and down….up and down….”.\u00a0 She can also say “Bebe” which means baby, and that is how she refers to Henry.\u00a0 She has also learned to stack Duplo blocks on top of each other.<\/p>\n

On Friday we went downtown for a visit with Santa.\u00a0 We had to wait about 30 minutes in a line outside, but Henry slept like a champ the whole time, and Eleanor was happy eating a cereal bar and staying cozy in her stroller.\u00a0 We didn’t put Henry in Santa’s lap, but Eleanor did, although she mostly cried.\u00a0 Santa was quite impressed with Henry, and said that he was the youngest one they had seen.\u00a0 Henry’s cord fell off, allowing us to give him his first proper bath.\u00a0 After that, his hair fluffed right up and it looked like we had styled it with gel.<\/p>\n

Eleanor enjoyed opening all of her Christmas presents, and also enjoyed eating a pancake for the first time at Christmas breakfast.\u00a0 At Dinner, she had Pork for the first time, but unlike the pancake, it was quickly spit back into her bib.\u00a0 Cornbread also received the same treatment.\u00a0 We got to Skype with\u00a0cousin Saul and wish him and Uncle J and Aunt Shawnee a Merry Christmas.\u00a0 Eleanor\u00a0is very\u00a0excited to play with Saul next time\u00a0he visits and show\u00a0him all\u00a0the tricks she has learned since his last visit.\u00a0\u00a0Both Eleanor and Henry were very patient as we dressed them in a number of different outfits and had lots of photo sessions.\u00a0 The final session of the night was Henry wearing the outfit that I wore on my first Christmas.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!<\/p>\n