Monday, December 9th, Avery went to day care so
that Steven and I could go to my surgery consult. For some reason the doctor
submitted my referral to a hospital in Nampa, it took nearly 40 minutes to get
there - naturally the appointment only lasted 5 minutes. The surgeon felt my
belly and said there was no hernia where the first doctor said there was one…
no one has any idea what the weird sensation is but I do have an umbilical
hernia that I didn’t even know about. The umbilical hernia is very small and
doesn’t require surgery at this point. Avery was already napping by the time we
got back to Meridian so went home. My mom picked up Avery at 3:30 and we went
to her house for dinner.
Avery stole Mimi's pizza
On Tuesday we took Avery to see Santa J We met Steven’s
grandparents at the Black Bear Diner, they had Santa there taking pictures with
kids for FREE. We've seen so many places charge upwards of $20 just for one
print with Santa, its crazy. Avery didn't really like Santa but she didn't hate
him either, she got a penguin pencil, stickers, a note pad, and a candy cane.
Our family with Santa and Steven's grandparents
I dropped Avery off at day care on Wednesday so that I could
clean my parents’ house. I’m sort of their housekeeper now – I clean their
house and they pay for day care while I’m there so it works out. I don’t bring
home any money but simply work in exchange for the cost of day care, Avery
LOVES day care now and I’m happy to work so that she can go for a few hours a
week.
I mailed out our Christmas cards on Friday, we ordered 40
cards so labeling them was an all day event. I dropped Avery off at day care
and cleaned my parents’ house again. After work Avery, my mom, dad, and I went
to get a Christmas tree. We found a good tree almost immediately, I could not
stop myself from sniffing the trees haha. I’m so excited for Avery’s first
Christmas in the states! When I got home Steven was still out with his dad so I
bathed Avery, put her to bed, and cleaned the house.
Using Avery as a pack mule for clean laundry
On Saturday morning Steven’s phone completely died. Normally
a broken cell phone wouldn’t be a huge issue but Steven works from home, all of
his work calls come directly to his cell phone, his work emails got to his
phone, so for him it’s a very big deal. We had to brave the mall to fix the phone
since we had to go to the Apple store. It turns out he had a faulty battery
(Steven had called Apple two days prior complaining that his battery was dying
too quickly and they told us it was nothing), we got the battery replaced with
only 18 days left on his warranty.
We went to my parents’ house after the mall for an early
dinner and decorating the Christmas tree. Decorating was interesting this year,
we didn’t use any ornaments that had a metal hook on them, we only used
ornaments that hung by string. Avery “decorated” the tree by throwing ornaments
at it haha. That evening my parents babysat Avery while Steven and I saw the
new hobbit movie.
My parents' tree
On Sunday we went to Steven’s grandparents’ house to
decorate their tree and have dinner. No one really seemed into decorating but I
had a good time doing it.
The tree at Steven's grandparents' house
Avery Quinn - 23 months
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