The nurses at the Special Care Nursery last year, sure did their best to make it special. As we were putting up the tree this year, we found the ornament they made. It's a glass bulb with "Alex's 1st Christmas" painted on one side. And his little footprints are on the other! He also got little onesie from the nurses and a nice flannel burp cloth made by one of the nurses grandmother's. His nurse took our photo together on Christmas Eve. But honestly, it sucks to spend Christmas at the hospital and go home without your baby.
Last year, we had just a few Christmas decorations up at the house and no tree. We came home from the hospital to have dinner with my family who came down for the day. And then back to the hospital. Back and forth, back and forth. On December 28th, just two days before he came home, Mike was getting ready to go to work, and I was getting ready to go to the hospital, I said to Mike "I feel as if every day for the rest of our lives, we are going to go to Methodist Hospital. He's going be a baby forever and we'll have to go there every day to see him." It felt endless.
This year was much more fun! We got to put up a tree with all of the lights and ornaments. We took Alex to pick out the tree the weekend after his birthday. It was pretty warm and he had fun.
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| Christmas Day 2012 |
And the next weekend we went to the farm to spend time with the Meiners family - All of the Aunts, Uncles and Cousins were there. Unfortunately, I didn't get a lot of pictures at the farm, because I forgot to charge the camera battery, but we did manage to get one of all the cousins before the camera died.
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| In the front: Brandon the oldest grandchild. On the couch from left to right: Kaitlyn (3), Grace (almost 3), Samantha (19), holding Kyle (5 months), Kaylie (8), Kristin (14), holding Abby (8 months), Lindsey (11), Ashley (16), holding Alex (1), Tyler (16), and Ryan (16). |
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