Christmas Part 1: Urgent Care & Christmas Eve

I always feel like my vacation isn't complete without a sick child.  And, so it begins.  The morning of Christmas Eve, Ollie woke up with  a small "booger" in his eye.  I left to go to Target and when I returned I saw that it had turned into a major eye infection.  I even said to myself as I left the house for last minute errands, "when I return that eye is going to look worse than it does right now."  And, sure enough, that's what happened, so off to Children's Healthcare we went. I packed all the essentials:  IPad, books, snacks, pacifier, and bear.  It's always a bad sign when, upon entering the urgent care facility, there is a dry erase board that says, "current wait time: 3.5 hours".  Ugh.  But, Ollie was a trooper.  In fact, he ran and played like nothing was wrong.  They even had his favorite animal featured, fish, with a large fish tank and fish on the wall paper.  He can do a great fish impression with his lips, complete with the sucking noise.

As usual, he was such a good boy.  The triage nurse weighed him, picked him up to sit him on the medical table, took his temperature, etc... he was an angel.  He giggled while she did all of this and saw immediately the eye issue, since by this point of waiting it was almost completely glued shut.  

We then went back to the waiting area and waited awhile longer.  We ate gold fish, read books, played on the best invention ever - the IPad, and finally Ollie's name was called.  We went back to the small waiting room to wait for the doctor.  Ollie explored the room, looked in every cabinet, read books, and then magically the doctor appeared.  He diagnosed him with an ear infection and eye infection and sent us on our way with multiple prescriptions.  

He finally fell asleep on the way to get our prescriptions filled.  Such a sweet little guy.  

The rest of our christmas eve was great.  Dinner at my Aunt Katherine's house complete with singing carols and a reading of "Twas the Night before Christmas".  Drew looked shell shocked with our family tradition of singing and reading, but he'll eventually get into the swing of things.

Ollie & Drew enjoying a "cheesy roll" on Christmas Eve morning.  Breakfast of champions.

Drew is excited about Santa's arrival.

Drew & Ollie playing with toys at Aunt Katherine & Uncle Eddie's house. 

Drew opening his first christmas present this year.
It kind of made me cringe allowing him to open one before Christmas morning.
My mom never let us open presents before Christmas and it has stuck with me.    He really loved his puzzle from Aunt Katherine & Uncle Eddie, and had it put together before dinner.

Ollie too was given the privilege of opening a gift prior to Christmas morning.
A frog book, appropriate because he loves imitating a frog.

Putting together the large puzzle pieces.  He actually did most of it by himself.

Fish lips.  Adorable, right?

My cousins, Amanda (left) and Ellen (right) reading "Twas the Night before Christmas",
which is our holiday tradition.

My cousin, Harper, and his wife, Yukari.

My Aunt Martha, Aunt Katherine, Uncle Eddie, and Uncle George singing carols.
Another tradition....you better sing loud, it makes it better.

I cannot seem to get these two in a photo together without them goofing off or one trying to run away.  

Drew hugging his sick brother.
Drew loves his brother and often gives him hugs even when Ollie is adamant he doesn't want one.  

We made it home, and the kids were in bed and asleep in time for Santa's arrival.