Christmas Eve and Christmas

We don't have many pictures of Christmas eve or day really, we were so caught up in cleaning up puke and other accidents and doing laundry from said accidents because Carsen had an ear infection and some other bug we think and he was pretty sick. poor boy!! We ended up at the Dr. office on Christmas eve morning to find out that he had an ear infection. He seemed to be doing better by the afternoon so we decided that it would be OK for him to go to grandma and grandpa's for the annual Christmas eve fun of making reindeer food and cookies for Santa and his reindeer. It is so cute and I took some pics of the cousins and the kids doing their fun little crafts, but they were all on my mom's camera and I will have to get them later. It was rally good for Carsen to get out of the house and be around family that he didn't even seem sick at all!!
We all had a great time and came back home for the night and put our reindeer food and cookies out! Carsen loved shaking it all over the front porch! So cute!!
Also, on a little side note, Santa usually counts noses on Christmas eve morning but since Carsen was so sick that morning with fever and everything else we decided to let Santa know that it would be better if he could count Carsen's nose on Christmas morning.






After a long night of fevers and big messes and jammie changes tubbies and medicine..... Santa Came!!!!! yay!!
He did come and he counted all our noses! I guess we were all good and poor little Carsen was such a good sport through everything being sick that he definitely deserved presents from Santa. (Counting noses is when Santa comes and marks your nose with soot on Christmas eve morning if you have been good all year so to let you know that he will be coming the next night to bring you presents....such a cute little tradition that Keith grew up with!! Love it!!)
We did the tradition that I have grown up with that my parents put a sheet up to cover the doorway to the room with the tree and presents. It was really fun and so fun to have Carsen understanding it all a little more this year. He obviously wasn't feeling great so it took a little coaxing to get him to pull the sheet off but he did good and we didn't do many pics that morning just a little video since it seemed that between every present that he opened we had to clean up puke or change a bum and jammies. Poor little guy was such a good sport and just wanted to lay down so we drug Christmas way out and just hung out most of the day and then went to visit family later. We stayed down with family and did Keith's family's Christmas the next day. Despite it all, it was still a really great Christmas and we enjoyed spending time with family and all together. So glad that he got better by new years!!