It's Almost Christmas

The holiday season is upon us. I cannot believe that Christmas is only two days away! I absolutely love this time of year when we are able to celebrate the birth of our dear Savior with family and friends. Janell and Cameron got in to town the other day and that night all the power throughout most the valley went out at about 6:00. It was off until a little after 2 AM. Jesse was working a night shift so Atreyu and I went to Eddie and Bernie's and stayed the night there. Unfortunately, the next day I started feeling sick. I tried to drink a lot of fluids and I hoped it would go away but the next morning I woke up and it was even worse. I went to the doctor and it turns out that I have strep throat so I have been trying to stay away from the family since I don't want to get them sick as well. I am feeling better but what a terrible time to get sick.

Here are a few pictures of Atreyu. I got him to sit still long enough to get a picture of him in front of the tree (which he loves to try to play with). The other day Atreyu was crawling around and he was in between the living room and the kitchen so Machida decided to crawl up on him. It was so cute and I was lucky enough to get some pictures of it. After a bit Diesel decided he wanted in the pictures as well and he ended up kicking Atreyu and pushing Machida out of the way. Atreyu loves his dogs and I am trying to make sure that they don't lick him too much.

A Couple New Tricks

Atreyu seems to be doing so many new things so quickly anymore. A couple days after Thanksgiving, Atreyu started doing this "army crawl" and now he goes everywhere. It is so fun to watch him but now that he can get to me on his own, he thinks I need to pick him up as soon as he gets there. He really loves getting into the Christmas presents and the Xbox remotes. I really think that Christmas is going to be a lot of fun with him.

Arteyu is also able to feed himself...kind of. We just started giving him little finger foods and he is slowly figuring it out. Whenever he sees us eating, he thinks he needs to be eating as well. He does pretty well drinking right out of a cup. He's a very smart little boy!

This and That

Atreyu had an appointment with an eye doctor last week about his clogged tear duct. The doctor told us that he would need to have it surgically opened. We were able to get in to have it done this past Wednesday and Atreyu did really well. The doctor said Atreyu had a pretty big blockage there and it probably wouldn't have opened on it's own. His eye hasn't been watering at all since. Yay!!!! This picture was taken a few hours after the surgery. He had a cold as well as a very slight bloody nose from the surgery. I think he is such a brave boy. Atreyu loves bath time! We are getting him some fun bath toys for Christmas but until then he has some spoons, a cup and a rubber duck. He probably wouldn't care about cooler bath toys right now...he loves the cup and spoons!

Atreyu has also become more mobile. I need to get some videos but here is a picture of him getting into a drawer in the bathroom. I left him for maybe a minute and I came back and found him like this. He was holding himself up with the drawer. He definitely isn't staying my little baby but he is getting more and more fun all the time. He has started army crawling and I'm sure it won't be much longer until he has the actual "crawl" down.