Christmas Eve started out with these yummy donuts!
These might become a tradition, although I think they should have baked just a bit longer. They do look yummy, though, don't they? Thanks Pinterest! :)
Then we went to Urgent Care. :( This is something that we hope does NOT become a tradition! We had suspicions that either Jeremiah's ear infection from a few weeks ago never fully went away, or else he had a new one. We didn't want to head out of town with a possible ear infection (even though J does have an appt on Thursday to be re-checked by his pediatician-- we didn't want to risk it!). Turns out we were not the only ones who had this idea-- it is never a good sign when you pull up to Urgent Care right when it opens and there are already 10 people waiting in line outside! I was not pleased. Thankfully we were early enough that we made it out of there within an hour and a half (silly me, I thought we could just "run in." Ha!). Anyway, good thing we went because we came away with a prescription for Zithromax. J's left ear is either still not quite better or was on it's way to being infected again. Hopefully this takes care of it!!!!
So after that small speed bump, we continued on with Christmas Eve! After J's afternoon nap, we did presents. J was the only one to open presents, since Adam and I got a new TV for our gifts. Who needs gifts anyway when it's more fun to just watch your almost 2 year old open presents? :) J first opened a "Cars" sticker/story book.
"Oooooooooo!"
He also got a Melissa & Doug car-carrier truck. Not surprisingly, he loved it! And then his main gift from Mommy and Daddy was his very own easy chair! Here's a video of J opening up his chair. He was quite adamant that his chair needed to go in the corner-- he kept saying "Corner! Corner!" Finally we figured out that he wanted to put it right next to Daddy's La-Z-Boy in his bedroom. It took some convincing to get J to keep the chair in the living room, but now he seems to enjoy watching TV in it!
Oh, and Molly liked her gift, too.
Of course, Jeremiah thought that the box was just as much fun as his new chair!
After presents, we went to the 5 o'clock Christmas Eve candlelight service at our church. We have never been to this service before (as I said before, we have never been around!), so we were glad we were able to go-- what a blessing. A great sermon, plus singing "Silent Night" by candlelight-- love it!
After church we went out to eat. Since we have been married we have always gotten Outback To Go when we did "our" Christmas (which wasn't necessarily ON Christmas Eve or Christmas), but we couldn't fit that into our plan with church. So we went to Texas Roadhouse instead (how's that for festive?)-- again, silly me. I thought we'd be the only ones there! Nope. But thankfully our wait was not too long.
Jeremiah is very careful to blow on his food before he eats it.
And our little friendly guy greeted just about everyone who walked by or sat by our table!
Thankfully he is cute, and the majority of the time people greet him back.
After that we headed home, got J snuggled into his Christmas jammies, and then we read the story of Baby Jesus from Jeremiah's Beginner's Bible. He's getting quite good at identifying Baby Jesus and Joseph, but he often says "Mommy" for Mary.
And now I am sitting here, enjoying "A Christmas Story" and thinking about finishing our packing. Tomorrow morning we will open our stockings and then head out for Sioux City for Wissink Christmas. We hope that you all have a very merry Christmas!
P.S. Here's another video of excited Jeremiah!
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