Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent with Namma Diane, Karl, Aimee, and Tyler. After having some yummy food at the Buttered Biscuit in Sumner we came back to our house for Christmas fun. We attempted some family pictures which turned out with only partial success, but they sure are fun!

Got to love our new camera that helped us capture this moment of Avery's frustration.

Tyler has pretty much gotten away and Avery is poised to make her escape.

Now for the most part everyone looks good except for Avery again who was mad that she had to sit with Mom instead of rocking in the chair. What a horrible mother I am.

Avery and Tyler helped make the bed and then snuggled in for some t.v. watching. Tyler thought he could just stay all night there.

Tyler and Avery attacked the gingerbread house and had a good time eating the candy off it.

Keratoconus

So a few years a go I was diagnosed with Keratoconus.  It's not life threating or anything, it just means that my eyes are slowly changing shape, into a 'cone'.  It could take years before it becomes serious enough for a surgery, or it could be shorter, or it could even stop progressing.  It effects everyone differently so there is no way to know exactly what will happen to me. So there is a newer treatment available now that stops and can even correct the progression, not with full FDA approval, but it has finished clinical trials and has been approved to be performed at a few places in the US.  (Europe it has full approval).  At any rate my doctor thinks I should do the procedure, it's called Corneal Collagen Crosslinking with Riboflavin.  So this week I am headed off to Beverly Hills, CA to have it while Rachel stays at home with Avery. Hopefully Harper will not arrive while I am gone!   

(severe Keratoconus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus

Olson Family Christmas

Last Saturday on the 18th we got together for the Olson Family Christmas and we did some cousin pictures. Here are the best shots we got. We had a great time. Avery loved playing with the cousins as did Daryl. Thanks to Debbie and everyone else who made the night so much fun. The food was great!

Santa Train

Last Saturday we rode the Santa Train in Chehalis with Aimee, Karl, Tyler, and Namma Diane. It was a cute little half hour ride on a real steam engine. Tyler and Avery had a good time, and enjoyed the mini candy canes that Santa gave them. We somehow managed not to get washed away in the torrential rains too. It was a great time and we loved the opportunity to be with family.

Birthday Round Up

Avery and I had birthdays this last month. We were both sick on our respective birthdays. Avery's was the 12th of November and she was throwing up all that birthday weekend. We did give her presents the Sunday after her birthday when she was feeling a little better. She had to have some help from her Uncle Adam opening her gifts. For all of November I was coughing and it is now finally letting up, and I think I am getting better at last. My birthday was on Thanksgiving so we went out to eat at Maggiano's, a very nice Italian place in Bellevue. That's pretty much all there is to Avery's second birthday and my twenty-ninth birthday.

How can you not love that face?

Avery with her birthday presents.

The toy Mom and Dad got her for her birthday.

Bulking Up

Yesterday I came from the doctor to find that Avery had insisted on wearing every piece of clothing she could find in the family room. We just happened to have quite a bit of clothing in the family room because she had opened some birthday presents the night before, and I in my extreme laziness left them on the couch. She has on a dress, a pair of pajamas, another pajama shirt that she had around waist like a skirt, a long sleeved shirt, and then her new Yo Gabba Gabba t-shirt to top it all off. Needless to say she was very warm the whole day.

Baby #2

From Baby 2 11-2010

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