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In keeping with the Christmas theme for December, these pictures are of C's first Christmas in 2009. He was two months old, and slept through most of the present opening. Which was fine, as D liked opening all of the presents. C's favorite present for that year was the play gym. Whenever he would fuss because I wasn't holding him, I could place him on his play mat and he would be happy and content long enough for me to clean the kitchen or make dinner. We had a happy Christmas that year, with our new family of four.

A couple of weeks before Christmas, I tried to take C to get his pictures taken. That didn't work out so well, as the place was packed, so I had someone I knew take a few pictures at their home. I think these turned out better than they would have at the picture place I had gone too.

A few days later I brought D over as well in an attempt to get a Christmas card shot. Luckily there was one good shot, even though I didn't send out Christmas cards that year.

We only tried to get a good photo for about ten or fifteen minutes, but with the way it ended you'd think that we held them hostage for hours.

Happy Holidays from the Clark-Walker family! Tomorrow will be busy with a park date with my boys, baking cookies for Santa, visiting Kel's aunt and dad, and ending the night with a trip through Candy Cane Lane. Sunday will be spent with breakfast and presents with the boys and Kel followed by a day with Poppy and Gigi (and hopefully poker) for the boys and I while Kel spends the day with his dad.

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This post was supposed to be up yesterday, but then life happened. C got his EIGHTH ear infection of the year and we spent all of yesterday snuggling and last night in the emergency room. As the doctor put it, I brought in one child and took home a completely different one. C was lethargic (from hardly sleeping in twenty fours hours), irritable (God help us if I put him down), and had a fever (he was not happy with the nurse who took his temperature).

See those pink cheeks? My poor baby.

The doctor took a look into one ear, declared it extremely red with fluid behind the ear drum and then looked in the other, and gave it the same diagnosis, and C barely even moved. In the two and a half hours that we were there, C slept for ninety five percent of the time. With his temperature and the state of both ears, for the first time ever we got the antibiotic shot. I was nervous, because C has never had anything with penicillin (that I'm aware of) so I didn't know how he'd react. Thankfully, I knew the nurse who gave him the shot and he made sure that C was as comfortable as he could be before he injected him.

Since the Tylenol didn't touch his fever, and he got a small rash around the injection site, they kept us for awhile so that they can observe C and give him some Motrin. The rash went away after about twenty minutes and the Motrin brought the fever down by .2 degrees so they said we could go home and just watch him to make sure the fever continued to go down. Which it has, although it hasn't gone away completely.

Today he has a little more energy but he still has a fever. And the shot last night made him have diarrhea this morning. At least that's what I'm blaming it on. Either way, not fun. I just want my littlest better. Kel and I have been discussing tubes since November, when C's doctor said that she would send me a referral for both an Audiologist and an ENT. I think last night has put us on the same page in that we want C seen as quickly as possible. I've been waiting almost a month now for the referrals to come in the mail so when we are back at the doctor's office this week for C's follow up I will bug them again about it. 

Anyway...

This was Christmas 2008.  Our first Christmas in our new apartment, D's second Christmas, and his last Christmas as an only child. It was a quiet one, spent with family on both sides. But D loved it. He loved his Elmo DVDs and his Elmo cars. The lights were a hit, he had fun putting on his ornaments, and he actually tried to open his presents. We spent most of the day at home with Aunt B, and had dinner with Poppy, Gigi, and my family at their first Annual Clark Ugly Christmas Sweater Party.

It was a simple Christmas, just how we like it.

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This was D's first Christmas. He was six months old and just starting to sit up without doing face plants. His Aunt B was living with us and helped to make it a special morning. To be honest, I don't even remember what I gave him for his first Christmas (bad mommy). However, I do remember that his favorite toy came from Poppy and Gigi. It was a Fisher Price musical toy that you had to sit up (yeah!) to play with. We had a good, even though it was small, Christmas that year and I can't wait for Christmas this year when I know the boys will actually understand what is going on.

T-minus 23 days!

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This was the day we brought D home from the hospital.

Only we couldn't go to our apartment due to a mold issue in the guest bathroom, so we went straight to Gigi and Poppy's for the night. This is the first picture of my dad holding my D for the first time and I still get teary eyed looking at it. In hindsight, it was a blessing to be able to spend the night at my parents house. My mom allowed me some time to sleep, and D got some loving from his aunts and grandparents.

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This isn't the best picture of me. I look like I hadn't slept in weeks (which I hadn't), I needed a hair cut (or at least a better style), my eyebrows needed a wax (which they usually do a week after I have them done), and who doesn't love a double chin (don't answer that).

Regardless of how crappy I look, this is one of my favorite pictures of C when he was a baby. My favorite picture has to be the one that Kel snapped the minute C was back in my arms after being cleaned off, which I posted here. I loved how he was instantly my cuddlebug (hence the nickname Buggy). This was actually taken on November 16, 2009, so just over two years ago when he was three weeks and three days old.

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I was searching through the millions thousands of pictures that I have and I came across this one.

It was taken in April 2008 at one of the first football games we went to. D absolutely loved it and I couldn't get enough of this sweet boy's smile.