A Team Week 169: Christmas Continues

This week the Christmas season continued and what makes the season truly complete?...a sick kid of course!  That's right on Monday night I was able to experience a first that I would have preferred to avoid...I got puked on!  So far our kids have rarely gotten the flu and coincidentally when they have Eric has been the one lucky enough to deal with it...or at least that aspect of it.  On Monday night all of that changed.  That evening as we slept, I heard Avery's door open and then some crying as little feet made their way to my bed.  Then, just as I opened my eyes to see Avery standing next to me, he cried "mommy" and then proceeded to throw up on my side of the bed.  From that point on, I spent the night with him in his room trying to help him purge into a towel or bowl and doing my best to catch it when he didn't make it.  #momlife.

In the morning, Avery still wasn't feeling well.  Originally Eric was going to stay home with him and I was going to go into work.  However, I was convinced that we would need to stay home with him on Wednesday too and since I already had work plans for that day I decided to stay home with Avery on Tuesday instead.  We spent some time watching cartoons and Avery took a little rest, but by mid to late morning Avery was feeling better and was pretty much back to his silly little self.

We spent the remainder of the day taking it easy at home and playing together.  Then that evening we headed to Asher's school for his Winter Concert.

5 Videos: Asher's Winter Concert

On Friday it was Star Wars Day!!  Episode 8: The Last Jedi came out in the theaters today and coincidentally it was also Tracy and Eric's Day of Fun!  After bringing the boys to school and daycare, we enjoyed a day together with a delicious breakfast, some Christmas shopping and the new Star Wars movie.

Raspberry Stuffed French Toast at Meli Cafe in Racine

Star Wars Landspeeder at ToysRUs

When Saturday came, we enjoyed a low key weekend together to finish out the week...

The boys checked out the Christmas donut selection at Meijer...

Asher also helped me clean up the house.  Before anyone knew he was awake, without anyone telling him to do so, he cleaned his whole bedroom and then started cleaning the living room, which is where I found him.  While I cleaned the bathrooms he finished the living room and then moved on to the kitchen! It was a wonderful gift of love.  In a such a busy time of year having the help to clean things up was very much appreciated!! #bestgiftever #himnotthecleaningsurprise #butthecleaningtoo

We enjoyed the sweet Christmas samples at Sam's Club...

We finished getting our Christmas decorations up...

We watched some Christmas movies, introducing the boys to Elf after watching the Santa Clause movies earlier in the week...

Finally, I gave Eric an early Christmas present...tickets for him and the boys to Monster Jam in January!!  (I wanted to make sure he was on board with the idea before we told the boys about it).