Logan woke up on Christmas Eve with red eyes--looking a little off. It always starts in his eyes for some reason. He was doing alright until the afternoon when he took a nap (which he never does!) and started running a fever. We ended up having to skip the Christmas Eve service. He was rapidly getting worse. He ended up going to bed super early.
Olivia had to put out the reindeer food by herself.
There was also no cute kids in pajama pictures by the tree. Olivia set out the cookies for Santa by herself and then eventually headed to bed.
Michael had to stand guard while I played Santa. Olivia tried to come out of her room at least once. We waited until right before we went to bed to add the actual gifts from Santa.
Logan asked for a Batmobile toy and Olivia asked for an Art and Craft supply center that she saw in the Lakeshore Learning catalog.
With Logan being sick and Olivia being a night owl, they actually slept in pretty late. I got up and got breakfast in the oven before they woke.
We had to wake Logan and then change him into last year's Christmas pajamas. He had slept so long that he had wet the bed. He's not a happy riser in general, but being sick definitely did not help us.
He had a fever of around 102.6, so we gave him medicine and tried to pump the liquids.
Sweet boy!
Olivia is slightly obsessed with Junie B Jones. She has read every book at least a half a dozen times. Seriously. She reads them and rereads them, arranges them in order and reads them again. I told her if she's reading 4 chapter books in a day it's probably too easy for her. Despite my efforts to introduce different authors and series, she returns to her beloved Junie B. At the last minute I bought the journal and the puzzle book--2 books I did not have from my teaching days. These were by far her favorite gifts!
We tried to make Logan as comfortable as possible. We let him eat his skittles and Olivia assisted in the opening of the gifts when he needed a hand.
The kids had gifts from Michael and I as well as his mom.
The last gift was a big gift from my mom. She got them each a bike. Olivia was nervous at first, because she doesn't know how to ride a bike. But since then, after actually learning that she can do it (still with training wheels--we're behind over here), she's declared it a favorite gift of hers.
Logan later spiked a fever of 104 and I thought we might be headed to the ER on Christmas day. Thankfully, a bath helped bring it down. We just kept making him drink as much as we could, giving medicine to help with the pain, and he did a lot of sleeping.
He would do better, and then crash, do better, and then crash. The next day we ended up taking him in to the Dr and it turns out he had the flu. Thankfully, non of the rest of us got it.
He literally did not eat for like 6 days. We had to work to keep him hydrated (and if you know Logan, you know that is not like him-- he loves to drink). He took multiple naps a day and did a lot of just laying around. I caught this sweet moment where they were just relaxing in Olivia's room.
It wasn't exactly the Christmas we had thought it would be, but it ended up to still be alright.
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