Over our Christmas celebrations Eoin was uncharacteristically fussy and sleepy and now we know why . . . my baby is sick. He has had a runny nose, a fever, and a cough since Monday and although it is beginning to subside, my hearts breaks for the little man. He got to stay home from daycare yesterday to lie around and watch cartoons with Grandma Kohn. He is feeling much better today, thankfully. This is the first time he has been sick; we have been lucky that he was healthy for almost 7 months and know that this will help to build up his immune system, but there is nothing worse than having your baby be sick and you not be able to help him (well besides infant Tylenol and lots of love). Also, even with how awful he must feel, he still manages to look up at me with a great big smile!

One more Christmas

Eoin with Aunt Tina and Aunt Krystal, gumming on a cucumber as his lil' gums are hurting

"Why is this the last one, daddy?"

On Saturday, after leaving from a couple of days at Nana Brown's, we headed to Aunt Tina and Aunt Krystal's for a belated Christmas celebration. Eoin enjoyed spending time with the Kohn side of the family, although he was still rather sleepy from his lack of sleep up north. We also celebrated Daddy's birthday! Jordan finally turned "26." We had a very low key evening as we had a very sleepy baby and we were exhausted from our travels ourselves. Happy Belated Birthday, Jordan! A fantastic husband and father :) Thank you for all you do! We love you.

and then that afternoon . . .

more cousin love

McKaylah being so gentle and loving on Eoin

more presents!

"i wish, i wish, i wish a Christmas wish"

kisses from McKaylah

playing with McKaylah

two sleepy heads on the couch

we drove up to Nana Brown's. Eoin was spoiled yet again with more presents and we got to play with McKaylah and Auntie Kelly. Dinner was absolutely delicious and a great family friend, Rosemary, joined us. After dinner, we headed up to Aunt Donna and Uncle Hugh for what is becoming a fun tradition of dessert and wine drinking (two of my most favorite things!) Eoin got to see everyone, although he was a little out of his element and a little fussy as he didn't sleep much. We also received very exciting news that my cousin Kathleen has set her wedding date, so now we have so much to look forward to in the new year!

Later that morning . . .

Grandpa's lap is better than Santa's any day!

Jordan, Eoin and I headed over the Grandma and Grandpa Kohn's. Awaiting to open all the presents were Ashley, Nick, Aidan, Jessi and Erin. The kids got to dive into their goodies first, but before that they were instructed to put on these adorable "Baby's First Christmas" Santa hats . . . well, once that happened Mammarazzi (aka Ashley and I) were out if full force! The babies are just too cute together . . . oh and they were incredibly spoiled too, but so were mommy and daddy.

He CAME!!!

Eoin waking up on Christmas morning
all the loot that the big man left

tip-toeing out to sneak a peek

Eoin and daddy entering the living room

Eoin trying out his catepillar

mommy reading to Eoin from one of his new books

he's a little overwhelmed

I wanna play NOW!

Santa came and Christmas morning with our little family was magical. It was so special for Jordan and I to capture his first Christmas and I know it will become even more special next year when he grasps more of what is actually going on :)

*how special that this one just happened to be our 100th blog :)

T'was the Night Before Christmas

lil' man sleeping with visions of sugar plums dancing in his head . . . Santa was on his way
Auntie Erin, Uncle Pat and Eoin

Eoin was so sleepy . . . Uncle Pat, Daddy, Mommy and Auntie Erin with our lil' man

Auntie Erin and Eoin

Eoin hanging out with the big kids, Jack and Jacob

posing for mommy! he got a little tired of this as you can tell from the next few pictures

okay, the next few, I love this one :)

so sleepy

our Christmas Eve Family Picture

Uncle Pat and Eoin opening his gifts from Uncle Pat (too much by the way!)

"I got a PRESENT?"

he loves Jack!

all of the cousins' kids

and again; I'm sure no one has a picture where they are all looking at the same camera

Eoin's present from Santahe was so good at opening presents

sleepy Eoin with Santa (he made a special stop before his deliveries for the night)

Santa is great, but he loves Uncles Mike

Christmas Eve was wonderful! We began our evening at Christmas Eve mass at St. Mary's. Eoin was an absolute angel throughout the entire service. We got to see lots of family at Jordan's Aunt Dawn's. Eoin had a great time surrounded by lots of family. He got to open some presents and became as much of a professional at opening presents as a 6 1/2 month old can :) We had to get home and get snuggled into bed so we could get up bright and early the next day!