Sunday, January 25, 2009

After Christmas Blues

We went home Christmas night, slept and packed to go to Granbury for a weekend away with just Brance, Wren and I. We love the cabin there and wanted to seize the opportunity to get away. It was fun, but Wren was unusually fussy. I thought it was just her being tired from Christmas and all of the new places. The next day, my friend Gina came in to visit, and Wren developed a bad cough. We went to the doctor the next day only to find out Wren had RSV, a respiratory virus. The next week was spend tending to a sick baby. I was so thankful Brance was home from school to help out. Poor Wren would cough so hard she would throw-up. She was still actually pretty active and happy until New Years Eve. She got a pretty high fever and would just lay on Brance. I kind of freaked out and called the doctor at 9:30pm. They just suggested that I alternated Motrin and Tylenol. It helped so much!!! After about a week of sleeping in the car seat in the bed and suffering through breathing treatments, Wren was finally on the mend! We were glad to have our little girl back to normal!

Christmas Fun!

We had such a wonderful time with Wren this Christmas! She was just old enough to be interested, but not old enough to be into everything :). We spent time with lots of family! We enjoyed the "Dodson" Chirstmas at my sister's house this year and Wren had so much fun watching her cousins and playing with them. She was mesmerized by all the action and got some wonderful Christmas gifts! We spent Christmas Eve with Brance's family. We ate good food and opened gifts. We had a wonderful time playing with Wren and watching her experience Christmas for the first time. We also got some great gifts (Brance's mom got me the complete icing tip from Wilton so that I can learn to decorate for Wren's future birthday cakes!) That night, we headed over to my parent's house and spent the night so that we could wake up on Christmas morning with them. We slept in and enjoyed breakfast with Nicole and David. Then we opened gifts (again :). Wren got some adorable clothes and fun toys. After that we headed to my aunts house to eat and...open gifts! We stayed late and poor Wren was pooped, but we had a great Christmas!