Busy time of the year!

The month started out with playgroup at our house. It is at our house about once every 4 months. Let’s just say that it is sometimes controlled chaos, with up to 8 toddlers running wild! We are all happy that we are still getting together twice a month, and plan to continue way into the future.

Christmas is really the only other thing to blog about. (Read about Christmas Eve day on my previous post.) Christmas eve we went to my Aunt’s house in west Seattle. That has become our tradition in the last several years. This was with my parents and sister. We had a good visit. Aunt Corinne always makes such a good roast for Christmas Eve dinner, and she doesn’t even eat it because she is a vegetarian! Shaun got an Adventure Bible from them. He always wants to read it too, along with his other bible and other books. He is really getting into reading and he expects it before bedtime each night. He is starting to sit longer and listen to books, depending on his mood, yay!

Christmas day was a long one, but fun. Our tradition since we have been married is to go over to my parents house for brunch, then open presents with them and my sister, then my cousin’s family comes over and we open presents with them, then my mom’s cousin’s family comes over for dinner. This year my aunt & uncle were not there because they are traveling all over Europe and beyond for a year, so it was kind of different, but they still sent presents for Shaun! Here are just a few of the items Shaun got. No child in this family is spoiled, are they?

Little People Town
"Choo Choo" train race track

Matchbox cars
Sesame Street House

Pooh Laptop

IVF update: We plan to start the 2 cycle process in mid January as long as everything is a go. This month we have been working on getting ready for it, like getting blood work and various tests done. They need to make sure we haven’t contracted any diseases like hepatitis or HIV (like we would….) since they last checked and make sure my hormones are in the normal ranges, etc. We could have started the cycle this month, but we didn’t want to feel stressed and overwhelmed, so we decided to take it slowly. Plus, looking ahead on the calendar, if I were to get pregnant, it would have put the due date right smack dab with our 2 birthdays. That wouldn’t be so bad, but it gave us a sign that we shouldn’t rush.

Happy New Year! I can’t believe we are almost in 2010! It just seems like a couple years ago we were all worrying about the Y2K thing. That was 10 years ago now! Time sure flies!