Holiday Craziness

Andy, Eleanor and I had a very busy Christmas this year! On the Sunday before Christmas, we went down to my Grandmother's for a Christmas celebration. We ate Chinese food and exchanged gifts. It was pretty relaxing and lots of fun. Eleanor was a bit fussy, as usual, but slept for the drive home. On Christmas Eve, we went to Mike and Patty's for a late Christmas Eve lunch. Eleanor was great over there - she sat on my lap for dinner and after dinner, she laid on the floor and smiled at everyone. She especially seemed to love looking at Caroline! Christmas morning, we got up early (Eleanor got us up at 5am), exchanged our own gifts, ate breakfast and then drove up to Maine. Christmas was a particularly tough day for Eleanor. She sat in the car seat for a long time and ended up in a strange place. We stayed the night in Maine and Eleanor slept in the bassinet for about 3 hours before waking up. She then would not go back to sleep, so I got up and sat with her on the recliner chair in the living room for the remainder of the night. Luckily, both she and I were able to get some sleep there. The next day, we drove up to Damariscotta to visit Andy's Grandparents. We also got to see Jean and Don Meakin. It was a lovely visit and we had lunch and got to introduce Eleanor to Grammy and Grampa Piper. We also took a trip to the Maine Cloth Diaper store, where we picked up some more diapers and covers, since Eleanor is quickly growing out of her current diapers. Eleanor did very well during the entire trip to Damariscotta, which we were very pleased with. We drove home later that night and have been recovering from the trip ever since.

For almost a month now, Eleanor has decided that she likes to eat a few times during the night. She's been waking up almost every two hours. For the past few nights, it's been almost every hour. Needless to say, we are exhausted and have no plans to stay up until midnight tonight to bring in the new year! Of course, if Eleanor wakes us up near midnight, we may still get to see the ball drop!


Here is a Christmas photo of Andy, Eleanor and I in front of our Christmas tree. Since we have nearly no furniture in our living room, we got a really bushy tree this year.

Here are the Christmas stockings I made for the family. It took me a lot longer than the estimated time on the pattern to make them, but having a new baby slowed things up a bit!


Here, we were trying to get a photo of Eleanor's mohawk after her bath, but you can't really see the mohawk very well. However, we thought it was a funny photo of just how angry she can get when she's hungry!






Here's Gramma Piper the morning after Christmas rocking Eleanor. Very sweet!







The Piper Clan up in Damariscotta the day after Christmas. Don Meakin is missing from the photo.




Grammy and Grampa Piper with Eleanor. It was great to introduce Eleanor to her Great Grandparents on the Piper side! It was also very nice to see Grammy and Grampa together during lunch.



We took this photo because we thought Eleanor looked like she belonged on the Soprano's. Hehehe.