Christmas 2011

Christmas morning, Owen was feeling better. He had slept all night without throwing up, and was ready for presents!! He found a few under the tree to open:

A remote control car

A black and red ball that he calls his Spiderman ball.

A variety of CAT trucks

After that we packed up and headed to Muscatine. I was still kind of weary that he was going to throw up again, but thankfully that was not the case. He was a little more shy and clingy when we first got there, but we just snuggled a bit and that was fine with me! : ) Surprisingly, Owen was more interested in eating all the appetizer stuff than I was - I think all the puke the night before kind of ruined my appetite. After a little while, though, Owen started yelling, "Mommy!" and whimpering. I picked him up and he moved so that his tummy was on my shoulder. I think he had a tummy ache and/or was having a hard time pooping. Needless to say, he filled up 2 diapers in about 1/2 an hour. I'm still not sure what was really the matter with him. Must have just been a 24 hour bug, because after he got that out of his system, he was good to go!

The rest of the afternoon we hung out at Ryan's grandma's house and ate and opened presents. Owen got to play with cousins. Then it was off to Ryan's mom's to open more presents!! I can't even remember everything that he got (probably because it's April now!) but there were some clothes and an art desk in there. We spent the night at Ryan's uncle's house and the next day made our way up to Elkader. 

There, Owen got to play with his cousins and be spoiled with more presents. He got lots of colors and coloring books, trucks, books and movies. 

I had taken the whole week between Christmas and New Year's off from work, and would have LIKED to spend more time in Elkader, but Ryan had to go back to work and Owen was coming BACK to Elkader for New Year's so his mom and dad could have fun : ) So we left on Tuesday morning. Then comes the fun job of opening the seemingly millions of presents and finding enough batteries for everything!

It was really nice to be able to see everyone over the one weekend, but it does get to be a lot of travelling. Thank goodness Owen wasn't sick longer than he was, and we still got to have a good Christmas!