Christmas in Moorhead

After we got home from Montevideo, we had Christmas with my side of the family. The kids were excited to play together. I got them rugby sweaters from Children's Place and Tyden and Austin never sit so nicely together so it was definitely worth taking a picture!

A common occurrence

It is frequent that Uncle Todd is eating some sort of ice cream treat. It is now also common that he has a little buddy right there to help him eat his ice cream treats! :)

My new toys!

Tyden was all business when opening his presents. As you can see he got a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a Vikings football, and Candy Land (and much more)! :)

Christmas in Monte!

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in Montevideo with Bryant's family. It was a great time! Tyden was worn out by the time we left. His Uncle's kept him busy! :)

Tyden got a new dress coat and hat from Uncle Darin and "Uncle" Keri (as Tyden calls her).

Christmas Baking!

Well, I don't bake much for Christmas since this is my busy time at work....but now that Tyden gets so excited we did make one thing. It is really easy and took us maybe 30 minutes. You take round pretzels, hershey kisses (we used milk chocolate, hugs, and the new peppermint ones). You put the kisses in the middle of the pretzel and bake them at 300 for 3 minutes...once they come out of the oven you put an M&M on top and stick them outside until they harden!! Tyden did almost all of it! He unwrapped the kisses (fine motor! :) ), put the kisses in the middle of the pretzel and then ate the finished product! We didn't let him put the M&Ms on as they were too hot. We had so much fun!!

Tyden

We took some pictures to use for our Christmas card. We have managed to get Tyden to smile without crinkling his nose! But most importantly we have only been in the ER once in the past 6 months! :) We have the whole asthma thing figured out now and his nebulizer has been an absolute blessing. He can now run the bases without couging and wheezing so hard he would throw-up! He has only gotten croup once in the past 6 months (which was our 1 trip to the ER as he couldn't inhale...an absolutely terrible experience!). We were used to what he sounded like with croup since he has had it about 7 times now, but he never had trouble inhaling before! We did the "egg challenge" so he can now eat eggs without reacting, but the nuts will be an allergy forever I think!

Our first shovel of the season!

I will remind Tyden when he is 15 that he used to cry because he wanted to help shovel so bad! We now have a little shovel for him and he helped! I normally don't have him wear such a "girlie" scarf but his stuff was in the wash. He did however get to wear Daddy's UNC hat! :)