Grandparents, Christmas

Nico was sick in the night last Thursday and wasn't able to make it to his last day of school on Friday. His teacher had sent an email to everyone earlier in the week asking us to let her know if our child would miss Friday so she could send home all the holiday stuff early. If only I had known ahead of time! ;) Oh well, he will get his stuff when he goes back.

Nico was weak for a while but was cheery enough on Saturday to welcome the Grandparents Russell over for our yearly Christmas celebration days with them. On Sunday, G.G. joined the Grandparents and headed over here to celebrate and exchange gifts. It was fun to show everyone the Clubhouse.

On Tuesday we were able to go visit the Art Museum with the Grandparents. I really enjoyed looking at the art, I was pleasantly surprised. Nico really enjoyed the interactive room they had where he could play with all the toys. He built a castle that was completely symmetrical.

random one from school

They headed home on Tuesday afternoon. It was a really great visit! I got to watch Holiday Inn with Grandma Russell which I hadn't seen in a while and fell in love with it. We also tried out "Hello Dinner!" for the first time, which is a place in Boise that makes gluten free meals. We had them make us meals for Sunday and Monday. Their finger steaks and BBQ sauce were very tasty!

Wednesday morning Nico and I went up to the cabin. We intended to do this because the geothermal water had gone out at the Clubhouse/Main house since Saturday night, and I wanted a shower. But the geothermal was fixed on Tuesday. We still went up to the cabin, though :) We had a nice meal and then left in a hurry because it started snowing. Fast! We got out in time to not have to use our chains. It was a very fun visit.

Thursday was Christmas, and I wish I had on video when Nico opened his stocking. He pulled everything out one after the other and glanced at each thing before dropping it to the table so he could pull out more from the stocking. No facial expressions or anything, no "cool!" or "a car!" or anything! Straight faced the whole time. Presents were different though.

Guy seems to have caught the nausea bug that Nico had. Or something different! He has a 102 fever. I'm praying all this illness ends here, I am tired of it! Poor Guy! I asked him if he was going to go to work, and while feeling sick he said "If I don't have a fever". He was so sad that he was missing work, mostly because he knew he was leaving his boss in a pickle because of it. Well, there are two more nights of work this week, perhaps he can swing one of them :)

Off to rest my sleepy head.