Samuel's First Christmas

The week of Christmas had a lot of highs and lows!  

On December 23, we had a fun potluck with all of our friends at the Nivisons.  We also hung out at home and enjoyed time off work.

 Christmas Eve was definitely a high where Samuel had his first Christmas celebration with the Backstrom family.  Mema got him a fun Christmas outfit - probably the only year he will be able to pull of a red velvet outfit so well!

 Other fun pictures of Samuel with his Backstrom family cousins and extended family.

The lows of the week were when Bradley got the flu early Christmas day morning and it lasted for 3 days!  He was quarantined in the bedroom by himself and communicated with Samuel and I via text message while we hung out and slept in the living room and pull out couch for 3 nights.  We missed all of the rest of the Christmas celebrations couped up at home, but mom got some fun time with Samuel.  On day 4, Bradley finally felt mostly better but then mom was down for the count but better by the next day.  We were SO READY to get out of the house after 4+ days inside.

Samuel got a LOT of great toys, books, and outfits!  I know one of his favorites will be his new jumping toy that he has already started using.  It has a musical pad that makes noise when he jumps but that is still in the package! 

One other fun highlight.... Decebmer 29 was Bradley's birthday and during the day when Samuel was on the ground doing some tummy time with mom, he rolled over from his tummy to his back - very cute!

Lastly, we did have to bring Samuel into the doctor on December 30 - he has had a small cough ever since starting daycare and it had escalated in the last few days as well as his temperment being a little off.  He had been pulling at his ears and we were afraid of ear infections.  It turned out everything was great - he is just probably suffering from a mild virus and mom and dad need to use the aspirator to clean his nose out!  While at the doctor, we did weigh him and he was only 14.25 pounds (much less than the 16 pounds mom listed a couple weeks ago!!!)