First off, Happy New Year! After being away for 18 days and a loooooong flight home, we are finally back in Italy. Our flight got in at 5:30 yesterday morning, and a friend picked us up at 7:30. After we dropped her off, we had to run to the grocery store and buy gas coupons. All 3 of us were cranky by the time we got home and Connor still wasn't feeling well. He has been sick with a cold {the same one that we have had for about a month and a half and seen the doctor twice for} and upset stomach off and on. Right after we walked inside our freezing house, he threw up on himself and me. Ick! We took a shower and then went to sleep. Six hours later and we all woke up. We needed that long nap! We were pretty hungry by this time, so I made dinner and Connor finally ate a good meal {he has been really picky the whole trip and not eating a lot}. After we cleaned up, we watched an episode of Downton Abbey and Connor fell asleep on me.
We put him in our bed and then came back downstairs to put together the new stroller we bought while we were in Texas. We have been wanting a new one with rubber tires since we got here, so we finally committed on one. We put it in front of the tree, and when we were finished we set out pop-tarts and milk for Santa since Connor wasn't awake to do it. Last year Santa came to our house before we went out of town for Christmas {read about it here}, but this year he was waiting for us to come home.
We were out of cookies, so pop-tarts would have to do this year.
We started hearing fireworks here and there, but when we layed down at about 11:20 they started getting closer together. I couldn't sleep, so woke Aaron up at 11:50 and asked it he wanted to go on the balcony and watch them with me. He said ok, so I grabbed my robe and when I went back to the bedroom. Connor must have heard me {or the fireworks} because he woke up at exactly midnight. We went to the balcony, and saw a bunch of our neighbors setting off fireworks. They.Were.Loud.
Not a great pic, but you can see all the smoke.
There was no way Connor was going back to sleep after all that noise, so we went downstairs and saw that Santa had already come!
He brought Connor a new kitchen and dishes.
Pointing at his new toy.
I think he liked the chocolate pop-tart more ;)
We hoped Santa would bring him a kitchen, so we bought him a bunch of food, pots and pans, and cooking utensils for it.
Aaron got a communication system for his motorcycle, motorcycle parts, a shaving kit, and insoles for his shoes. I got a camera lens, camera bag, iron wall decor, and gloves. Thanks honey!
Connor got his daddy veggie fries... they were at the bottom of his stocking! HAHA
We set his kitchen up in the kitchen and put his table and chairs next to it. It's the perfect place for it.
Eating an egg this morning.
All done!
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I'll start posting all about our trip to Texas over the next week, or so! XOXO
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