Christmas... part two!

We flew to South Carolina for a week. 'twas a much-welcomed vacation! (even though we had just got back from Florida two weeks earlier... )

Christmas Morning!

Paul, Jarom and Kevin stayed up ALL night and woke us all up super early!
I think everyone took a nap that day...

Jenna was an expert at opening presents by then, so she helped open mine as well. She was pretty excited about her fun new toys!

She also liked to play with the tinsel and popcorn on the tree. When she was picking the popcorn off of the string, her Uncle Jarom very nicely told her not to, and she FREAKED OUT like he had just screamed at her. And yet, it doesn't seem to scare her in the least if I scold her...

DOGS!

Jenna was really scared of the dogs for about 3 minutes. Then, she loved to feed them treats and pet them. These two dogs were more scared of her the entire time!

Rocky was Jenna's favorite, probably because he's her size. She pulled him around the house on his leash saying "c'mon Rocky!". It was really cute.

On Christmas Eve, we were wrapping some presents when Rocky came up behind us and peed right on Paul's leg. It was soo funny - well, except for for Paul... :)

Airplane rides!

Coming home marked Jenna's 15th airplane ride! Wow, I don't think I had been on that many planes until high school! And, it was her last free trip as she will be 2 in March. Here come lots of car trips! woo!
Everytime one of our planes has landed, people around us comment on how good she was during the flight. "Well", I say, "she is an expert!"


Remember when Jenna's elbow got dislocated? Well, when we were in the Houston Airport, about to get on our last flight home, it happened again. Oh, man - talk about bad timing!
I told Jenna she had to hold my hand in the airport, but she didn't want to, so she tried to drop to the ground. I was still holding her hand and I felt a pop! and said "oh no...". The airline people said it would take paramedics an hour to get there, and the only thing they would probably do is take her to the emergency room. Well, our flight left in 20 minutes, so that wasn't going to work. I called my mom and she told me how to pop in back in myself.

I tried... she cried... I was done.

Luckily, I had gotten a scarf for Christmas (thanks Kristy!), so we made a sling for her arm and gave her some tylenol. She fell right asleep and slept for the flight, the car ride home, and all night. In the morning, she was acting perfectly happy:


I simply credited her lack of pain to my amazing scarf-sling, and brought her in to the doctor. It turns out, I should have checked her arm before we went, because her elbow was fine. Either my attempt to put it back actually HAD worked, or it popped back in while she was sleeping. That's fine by me!
I just hope it doesn't happen again! We have to be super careful with her right arm...


Our other trip highlights include being lazy, playing games, puzzles, wii bowling and raving rabbids (sooo funny!), and Jenna being the ONLY nursery-aged child (we had already promised her nursery, so grandma and I played with her in the nursery room).

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well!
Happy New Year!